Game #3859
Aston Villa
Monday, 6 May 1985
10th (-)
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥
GK Kevin Poole | 🏴 |
LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴 |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴 |
CB Dean Glover | 🏴 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 |
M Steve McMahon | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Colin Gibson | 🏴 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴 | 🔁 |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴 |
Graham Turner | 🏴 | 1984-1986
Substitutes:
🔁 | W Tony Daley | 🏴 | for W Mark Walters | 🏴 | 47' |
Unused Substitutes:
None
None
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Matchday Squad:
Not recorded
Allan Evans replaces Darren Bradley.
Starting XI Average Age
| 24.36 |
Oldest Player |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴 | 33.71 |
Youngest Player |
LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴 | 19.36 |
Villa lose their penultimate game of the season as they are beaten at Villa Park by Luton.
Villa fail to score for the seventeenth time this season and make it fourteen wins in forty one League games, losing fifteen under Graham Turner.
Gordon Cowans, 26, becomes the latest player forced out of the club by Chairman Herbert Douglas Ellis as he makes his 357th and final appearance of his first spell with Villa before joining Bari in July for a fee of £500,000.
Cowans is the ninth member of the fourteen man League title winning squad that has now been sold by the Herbert Douglas Ellis regime. Cowans played for Villa between 1975-76 and 1984-85 and his departure followed those of Kenny Swain, Ken McNaught, Jimmy Rimmer, David Geddis. Tony Morley, Eamonn Deacy, Des Bremner and Dennis Mortimer.
Lost
0-1
🟥 6 May 1985, Villa 0-1 Luton, Villa Park
Scorer(s) | None
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline:
🥅 | Goal, 0-1, (Luton Town), Mark Stein
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 0-1 Luton Town
🔁 | 47' Sub off, Mark Walters, Sub on, Tony Daley
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 0-1 Luton Town
🟨 | Booking, Steve McMahon, Foul
Season | 1984-85 |
Matchday | #45 |
League Match | #41 |
Manager Game | #45 |
Monday, 6 May 1985
Manager: Graham Turner | 🏴 | Ellesmere Port, 1984-1986
Referee: John McAuley | 🏴 | Leeds, 1985
HT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥
Referee: John McAuley | 🏴 | Leeds, 1985
Previous 5 vs. Luton: 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
None
Final Appearances:
None
Graham Turner | 🏴 | 1984-1986
🕒 45 | 🟩 | 17 🟨 | 11 🟥 17 | 1.38
Villa Career Form:
Mid Table
Referee:
VAR (from 2021)
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Division One
Luton Town
Villa Park
Attendance: 14,130
GK Les Sealey | 🏴 |
RB Tim Breacker | 🏴 |
CB Steve Foster (ex) | 🏴 |
CB Mitchell Thomas | 🏴 |
LB Mal Donaghy | 🇬🇧 |
M David Preece | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Garry Parker | 🏴 |
M Peter Nicholas | 🏴 |
M Emeka Nwajiobi | 🇳🇬 |
CF Brian Stein | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Mick Harford | 🏴 |
David Pleat | 🏴 |
Substitutes:
🔁 | M David Preece | 🏴 | (M Wayne Turner | 🏴 |)
Unused Substitutes:
None
None
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded
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