Game #4032
Wednesday, 9 November 1988
Attendance: 8,324
Won
Simod Cup 1st Round
1st Round
Birmingham City
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩
Villa Park
Such is the dominance Villa once again exhibit over their neighbours Birmingham that Graham Taylor makes half time changes to weaken his own team to spare the opposition more humiliation than the 13-0 they had already received at Villa's hands this season.
Aston Villa
6-0
Birmingham City
Assist(s) | Martin Keown | 3’ | 37’ | 42’ | Alan McInally | 34’ | Kevin Gage | 38’ |
KEY MAN
Alan McInally, another brace, another rout of Birmingham.
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NEXT MATCH
MATCH TIMELINE
⚽ | 3’ Goal, 1-0, David Platt, Assist by Gordon Cowans
⚽ | 34’ Goal, 2-0, Bernie Gallacher, Assist by Alan McInally
⚽ | 37’ Goal, 3-0, Derek Mountfield, Assist by Gordon Cowans
⚽ | 38’ Goal, 4-0, Alan McInally, Assist by Kevin Gage
⚽ | 42’ Goal, 5-0, Allan Evans, Assist by Gordon Cowans
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 5-0 Birmingham City
🔁 46’ Sub off, Kevin Gage, Sub on, Andy Gray
🔁 46’ Sub off, Gordon Cowans, Sub on, Stuart Gray
⚽ | 75’ Goal, 6-0, Alan McInally
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 6-0 Birmingham City
ON THIS DAY
Graham Taylor's Villa beat near neighbours Birmingham for the third time this season and have now put 13 goals past the Small Heath outfit without reply.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Birmingham City
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1962-63
FIXTURE HISTORY
Birmingham City
Previous 5 vs. Birmingham: 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1988-89 |
Matchday | #15 |
Manager Game | #66 |
Wednesday, 9 November 1988
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Mike Peck | 🏴 | Kendal, 1977-1995
HT Score: 🟩 5-0
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 6-0
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟩
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Mike Peck | 🏴 | Kendal, 1977-1995
Previous 5: 🟩 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 31 October 1987, Villa 2-1 Reading, Villa Park.
Incidents: None
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Not recorded
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 25.20 |
Oldest Player |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴 | 32.10 |
Youngest Player |
W Tony Daley | 🏴 | 21.08 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Graham Taylor | 🏴 |
Garry Pendrey | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Lee Butler | 🏴 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴 |
LB Bernie Gallacher | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CB Allan Evans | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CB Martin Keown | 🏴 |
FB Kevin Gage | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
M David Platt | 🏴 | ⚽ |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🔥 | 🔥 | 🔁 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴 |
CF Alan McInally | 🏴 | 🔥 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
Birmingham City
GK Martin Thomas | 🏴 |
LB John Frain | 🏴 |
CB Ian Atkins | 🏴 |
CB Adrian Bird | 🏴 |
RB Brian Roberts | 🏴 |
M Kevin Langley | 🏴 |
M Des Bremner | 🏴 |
M Gary Childs | 🏴 |
M Mark Yates | 🏴 |
W Steve Wigley | 🏴 |
CF Simon Sturridge | 🏴 | 🔁 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 M Andy Gray | 🏴 | for FB Kevin Gage | 🏴 | 46’ |
🔁 M Stuart Gray | 🏴 | for M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 | 46’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | CF Simon Sturridge | 🏴 | (W Ronnie Morris | 🏴 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
None
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
RB Kevin Ashley | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 13/13
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 13/13
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE
Not Recorded
Player Abbreviations:
GK : Goalkeeper
LB, RB, FB : Left Back, Right Back, Full Back
CB, D : Centre Back, Defender
M, W : Midfielder. Winger
F, CF : Forward, Centre Forward
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game
Symbols:
⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution
🟨 | Booking
🟥 | Sending off
🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
TABLE
PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
"For Villa it was another step on the road to Wembley for Birmingham another step on the road to oblivion."
*Birmingham News*
Thursday, 10 November 1988
DOWN-and-out Birmingham City received another derby hiding here last night Aston Villa showed no mercy after their Littlewoods destruction with a six-goal Simod Cup thrashing.
Alan Mclnally led the rout with two goals and there was one apiece for defenders Allan Evans, Derek Mountfield and Bernie Gallacher and midfielder David Platt.
For Villa it was another step on the road to Wembley for Birmingham another step on the road to oblivion.
Blues’ resistance was lowered after just 214 seconds by Platt. Cowans stroked in Villa’s first corner and from Keown’s flick-on Platt pounced for his fourth goal of the season.
Garry Pendrey’s shellshocked troops mounted a token come-back and with a little more composure Langley would have netted a 17th minute equaliser.
Villa conceded a flurry of corners but it was merely the lull before the storm.
A sensational four-goal burst in eight minutes killed the tie and killed Birmingham stone dead.
Mclnally did the spadework in the 34th minute for Gallacher to blast home.
The Cowans and Keown corner combination enabled Mountfield to apply a deft finishing touch for the third three minutes later.
Number four was provided by leading scorer Mclnally who streaked on to Gage’s throughball and applied the perfect finish.
Evans added the fifth in the 42nd minute from yet another Cowans’ corner.
Villa boss Graham Taylor introduced the substitutes Andy and Stuart Gray after half-time But Blues kept fighting and Atkins rattled a shot wide with Butler out of position.
Teenage striker Yates came within inches of netting a consolation goal in the 65th minute.
But Villa were gifted a sixth goal in the 75th minute when Mclnally capitalised on a defensive mistake and scored his second with an almost disdainful drive from 20 yards.