Game #4399
Aston Villa

Saturday, 23 December 1995
6th (-2)
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥
GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
RB Gary Charles | 🏴 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 🔁 |
CB Ugo Ehiogu | 🏴 |
CB Gareth Southgate | 🏴 |
LB Alan Wright | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Mark Draper | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Ian Taylor | 🏴 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 |
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 |
CF Tommy Johnson | 🏴 |
Brian Little | 🏴 | 1994-1998

Substitutes:
🔁 | M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | 🟢 | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟥 | for M Mark Draper | 🏴 | 34’ |
🔁 | GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 | for GK Mark Bosnich | 🇦🇺 | 46’ |
🔁 | CB Riccardo Scimeca | 🏴 | for CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 78’ |
Unused Substitutes:
None
🟥 Lee Hendrie
🟨 Lee Hendrie
🟨 Lee Hendrie
🟨 Mark Bosnich
🟨 Alan Wright
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1993-94
Matchday Squad:
Not recorded
Andy Townsend returns in place of Dwight Yorke.
Starting XI Average Age
| 25.84 |
Oldest Player |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 | 36.08 |
Youngest Player |
CF Savo Milošević | 🇷🇸 | 22.32 |
QPR gain revenge for their League Cup exit as they inflict a first Premier League defeat in five on Villa as Lee Hendrie is sent off on debut.
Midfielder Lee Hendrie, 18, is sent off on his debut in a Villa shirt after joining as a trainee and signing professional forms in July 1993 to become the 712th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.
Goalkeeper Nigel Spink, 37, replaces Mark Bosnich at half time for the second successive game in what would prove to be his final game for Villa after the veteran decided he did not have the desire to compete with the young Aussie for the #1 shirt. Spink played for Villa between 1979-80 and 1995-96 making 453 appearances (excluding FMC). Spink’s 460 appearances was the highest of any Villa goalkeeper eclipsing Billy George’s previous record of 399 appearances between 1897-98 and 1910-11.
Former Villa centre forward Tony Hateley’s son, Mark, and future Villa assistant manager Ray Wilkins lined up for QPR.
Teenager Lee Hendrie was sent off on his first appearance to complete a miserable afternoon for Aston Villa.
The 18 year old substitute was dismissed in the eighth minute of injury time.
It needed a defiant display by Rangers’ giant American goalkeeper Jurgen Sommer to prevent Villa grabbing at least a point in a march they had dominated in long spells.
The 6ft 5ins keeper brilliantly kept out a hat-trick of scoring attempts by Villa’s Serbian striker Savo Milosevic - once memorably, mid way through the second half from a point blank header.
Sommer repeated his heroics in a frantic finish, somehow seeing out a close range header from Tommy Johnson and then tipping over a blockbuster by full back Alan Wright.
Villa badly missed the cutting edge usually provided by top scorer Dwight Yorke who missed the match with a broken nose, but still outplayed their London hosts for long spells only to end up in disarray, sending on reserve goalkeeper Nigel Spink as their third outfield substitute after Ian Taylor had been carried off on a stretcher in the prolonged injury time.
It did not end there as Hendrie, who had replaced the injured Mark Draper before half time was booked early in the second period was shown the red card right at the death when he blatantly blocked Rangers full back Rufus Brevett.

Lost
0-1
🟥 23 Dec 1995, Villa 0-1 QPR, Loftus Road
Scorer(s) | None
Assist(s) | None
Match Timeline:
🔁 | 34’ Sub off, Mark Draper, Sub on, Lee Hendrie 🟢
🕒 | HT QPR 0-0 Aston Villa
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Mark Bosnich, Sub on, Nigel Spink
🥅 | 54’ Goal 0-1, (QPR)
🔁 | 78’ Sub off, Paul McGrath, Sub on, Riccardo Scimeca
🟨 | 90’+1 Booking, Lee Hendrie
🟥 | 90’+1 Sending off, Lee Hendrie
🕒 | FT QPR 1-0 Aston Villa
🟨 | Booking, Mark Bosnich
🟨 | Booking, Alan Wright
🟨 | Booking, Lee Hendrie
Season | 1995-96 |
Matchday | #23 |
League Game | #19 |
Manager Game | #53 |
Saturday, 23 December 1995

Manager: Brian Little | 🏴 | Peterlee, 1994-1998
Referee: Alan Wilkie | 🏴 | Chester-le-Street | 1993-2000
Kick off: 3.00pm
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Score: 🟥 0-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
Last 5: 🟩 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥
Referee: Alan Wilkie | 🏴 | Chester-le-Street | 1993-2000
Not recorded
Debut Appearances:
🟢 M Lee Hendrie | 🏴 | #712 | Youth Team promotion
Final Appearances:
🔴 GK Nigel Spink | 🏴 | 1979-96 🕒 460 | 455 (5) | 🔥 2 | 🥅 584 | ⛔ 127 | 🇺 114 | #611 |
Brian Little | 🏴 | 1994-1998
🕒 53 | 🟩 | 21 🟨 | 17 🟥 15 | 1.51
Villa Career Form:
Top 8
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Queens Park Rangers

Loftus Road
Attendance: 14,778
GK Jurgen Sommer | 🇺🇸 |
RB David Bardsley | 🏴 |
CB Alan McDonald | 🇬🇧 | 🟨 |
D Steve Yates | 🏴 | 🟨 |
LB Rufus Brevett | 🏴 |
M Andy Impey | 🏴 |
M Simon Barker | 🏴 | 🟨 |
M Ray Wilkins | 🏴 | 🔁 |
W Trevor Sinclair | 🏴 |
CF Kevin Gallen | 🏴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
CF Mark Hateley | 🏴 | 🔁 |
Ray Wilkins | 🏴 |

Substitutes:
🔁 | M Ray Wilkins | 🏴 | (CF Bradley Allen | 🏴 | 🟨 |)
🔁 | CF Kevin Gallen | 🏴 | (M Matt Brazier | 🏴 |)
🔁 | CF Mark Hateley | 🏴 | (CB Karl Ready | 🏴 |)
Unused Substitutes:
None
🟨 Alan McDonald
🟨 Steve Yates
🟨 Simon Barker
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1966-67
Matchday Squad:
Not Recorded

"Teenager Lee Hendrie was sent off on his first appearance to complete a miserable afternoon for Aston Villa."

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