Game #4081
Aston Villa
Saturday, 11 November 1989
Norwich City
2-0
Aston Villa
Division One
Norwich City
Carrow Road
Attendance: 18,186
Lost
5th (-1)
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥
Assist(s) | None
MATCH SUMMARY
KEY MAN
Graham Taylor: "outplayed, out-gunned and out-manoeuvred", Saturday, 11 November 1989.
MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 11 November 1989
🕒 | HT Norwich City 0-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | 46’ Goal, 0-1, (Norwich City), Derek Mountfield o.g.
🥅 | 69’ Goal, 0-2, (Norwich City), Andy Linighan
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Ian Ormondroyd, Sub on, Gareth Williams
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Paul McGrath, Sub on, Mark Blake
🕒 | FT Norwich City 2-0 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Graham Taylor’s Villa lose in Division One for the first time in six games as they fall back to 5th place in the table but all eyes were on the local rag again with their barely concealed contempt for the club they reported on.
It made no sense. The Evening Mail, champions of every negative thought about Villa and eager to drain any semblance of optimism surrounding the club were at it again.
Like wild animals to fresh meat, a defeat away to a top 6 rival was too juicy to ignore.
How could they? This was their bread and butter with a slice of sizzling stake.
But after calling Villa’s relegation as early as the fourth game of the season, then damning Taylor’s side with the faintest of praise - whilst inflating the self worth of just about every opposition team - a defeat in the League Cup was just too salivating.
The defeat to West Ham was not “unlucky” but “embarrassing”.
If that was an over-reaction and mis-reading of a cold night in East London, just days needed to be waited by the hacks of the rag to fire up another damning indictment on B6’s pretensions.
No longer tipping Villa for relegation they were certainly “still not fooled” by Villa’s achievements in 1989-90 and now could proudly condemn a title challenge to the waste bin besides their cigarette smoke infested desks.
One defeat, a first in six League games that had seen Villa climb to fourth, was enough to set the poison pen letters to B6 ablaze once again.
We were told Villa’s “strengths were exaggerated” and “weaknesses” ignored.
If that wasn’t enough we were reliably informed Villa didn’t score enough.
Despite having failed to score in the League for the first time in seven games and only the second time this season.
No matter that in the last six League games Villa had scored twelve goals.
No matter that Villa had won five of those six games.
Worse was to come.. the goals conceded “were a joke”.
Was that irony? Did they mean they were literally laughably unfortunate? or were they serious when they claimed Villa’s internationals were more bothered about playing Malta and Romania than winning the League?
Yet their own goal descriptions of “dreadfully unlucky” and “going into the net off the centre-half’s backside” simply did not chime with all that preceded. Was it wilful contradiction or just an inability to ever say anything positive about the club they were paid to follow?
Just what were these self appointed ‘Judges’ watching?
What were they thinking?
Why report on a club when any potential objectivity, or even support, or - whisper it quietly - partisan tribalism, as displayed by the Liverpool Echo or Manchester Evening News, was total anathema to them?
Doubtless in time they came to love the club in their strange way.
Doubtless they soon told us how they believed in Villa all along and help drive them to a top two berth once again.
Doubtless they received recognition by virtue of the relationship with the club.
But supporters? Never.
The sad fact is it didn’t start in November 1989 and neither did it end.
They had form through good times and bad. Always unhelpful, always prompting a new ‘crisis’
This, not the worst example or the most vicious, was certainly the most detached from reality given what supporters had witnessed over the last three months under Graham Taylor.
Promoted the previous season to successfully fight for survival, just 12 months later the same team were troubling the top 6 of the League but even then we couldn’t count on their support and encouragement. Shameful.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Norwich City
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1984–85
FIXTURE DETAILS
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_96a57f1d2d7a47c2b98d9218b9892ca5~mv2.gif)
![2509-2.png](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_8439a3b811654c61a4d71d8713ec8b71~mv2.gif)
Season | 1989-90 |
Matchday | #17 |
League Match | #13 |
Manager Game | #115 |
Saturday, 11 November 1989
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Graham Taylor | 🏴 | Worksop, 1987-1990
Referee: Howard King | 🏴 | Merthyr Tydfil, 1980-1994
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-2
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥
MANAGERIAL RECORD
Graham Taylor | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 115 | 🟩 | 48 🟨 | 29 🟥 38 | 1.50
Villa Career Form:
Top 8
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Howard King | 🏴 | Merthyr Tydfil, 1980-1994
Matches Officiated: 7
🟩 : 3
🟨 : 1
🟥 : 3
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 27 September 1988, League Cup, Villa 2-0 Birmingham, St Andrews'.
Cards: None
TEAM NEWS
Nigel Callaghan and Andy Comyn replace Tony Daley and Kevin Gage.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 26.72 |
Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 | 31.28 |
Youngest Player |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴 | 19.92 |
MANAGER
Graham Taylor | 🏴 |
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_96a57f1d2d7a47c2b98d9218b9892ca5~mv2.gif)
Aston Villa
GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 |
RB Chris Price | 🏴 |
CB Andy Comyn | 🏴 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
CB Derek Mountfield | 🏴 |
CB Kent Nielsen | 🇩🇰 |
M Gordon Cowans | 🏴 |
M David Platt | 🏴 |
W Nigel Callaghan | 🏴 |
CF Ian Olney | 🏴 |
CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴 | 🔁 |
MANAGER
Dave Stringer | 🏴 |
![2509-2.png](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_8439a3b811654c61a4d71d8713ec8b71~mv2.gif)
Norwich City
GK Bryan Gunn | 🏴 |
RB Ian Culverhouse | 🏴 |
CB Andy Linighan | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CB Ian Butterworth | 🏴 |
LB Mark Bowen | 🏴 |
M Andy Townsend | 🇮🇪 |
M David Phillips | 🏴 |
M Tim Sherwood | 🏴 |
M Dale Gordon | 🏴 |
CF Malcolm Allen (ex) | 🏴 |
CF Dean Coney | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_96a57f1d2d7a47c2b98d9218b9892ca5~mv2.gif)
🔁 M Gareth Williams | 🏴 | for CF Ian Ormondroyd | 🏴 | 75' |
🔁 M Mark Blake | 🏴 | for CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 75' |
SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions Made
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_96a57f1d2d7a47c2b98d9218b9892ca5~mv2.gif)
None
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
![2509-2.png](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_8439a3b811654c61a4d71d8713ec8b71~mv2.gif)
M Jeremy Goss | 🏴 |
M Henrik Mortensen | 🇩🇰 |
SQUAD STATS
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_96a57f1d2d7a47c2b98d9218b9892ca5~mv2.gif)
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 9/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/13
SQUAD STATS
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1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/13
MATCHDAY SQUAD
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_96a57f1d2d7a47c2b98d9218b9892ca5~mv2.gif)
MATCHDAY SQUAD
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UNAVAILABLE
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_96a57f1d2d7a47c2b98d9218b9892ca5~mv2.gif)
Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE
![Villa.gif](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9be7fa_8439a3b811654c61a4d71d8713ec8b71~mv2.gif)
Not Recorded
Player Positions:
GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half
M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward
Match Symbols:
⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution
🟨 | Booking
🟥 | Sending off
🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
MATCH QUOTES
MATCH REPORT
Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. With thanks to Reach PLC. Digitised by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited. All rights reserved. Source: British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)
*Birmingham Evening Mail*
Monday, 13 November 1989
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