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Game #72

Aston Villa

3-2-2, 8 PTS

Saturday, 19 October 1889

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Lost

4th (-1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥

Football League

Blackburn Rovers

3-1-1, 7 PTS

Leamington Road

Attendance: 8,000

🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

Blackburn Rovers

7-0

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | None

🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 19 October 1889

🥅 | Goal, 0-1, (Blackburn Rovers), Townley
🥅 | Goal, 0-2, (Blackburn Rovers), Southworth
🥅 | Goal, 0-3, (Blackburn Rovers), Southworth
🥅 | Goal, 0-4, (Blackburn Rovers)
🕒 | HT Blackburn Rovers 4-0 Aston Villa
🥅 | Goal, 0-5, (Blackburn Rovers), Southworth
🥅 | Goal, 0-6, (Blackburn Rovers), Southworth
🥅 | Goal, 0-7, (Blackburn Rovers)
🕒 | FT Blackburn Rovers 7-0 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

Goal ⚽, Assist 🔥, Goal Conceded 🥅, Injury 🚑, Booking 🟨, Sending off 🟥, Comment 🗒️, ❗ Villa Chance,❗❗Huge Villa Chance, 💥 Opposition action, 🎥 VAR, 🆘 Referee error, ❌ Missed pen, disallowed goal, player retires from field of play, 🟢 Debut, 🔴 Final appearance, 🕒 Half time, Full time, 🔁 Substitution

🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

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ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 19 October 1889
Blackburn turn the tables on Villa and in windy conditions Villa concede 7 a week after scoring 7.

🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

Seasons | 🕒 Games | ✅ Starts (🔁 Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Aston Villa

League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1886-87

Blackburn Rovers

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League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1885–86

FIXTURE HISTORY
Blackburn Rovers
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Previous 5 vs. Blackburn: 🟩 🟥 🟥

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅

🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

FIXTURE DETAILS
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Season | 1889-90 |
Matchday | #7 |
League Match | #7 |
Manager Game | #46 |
Saturday, 19 October 1889

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🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

MATCH SUMMARY
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Manager: George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Glasgow, 1886-1926 led Management Committee
Referee: Unknown
HT Score: 🟥 0-4
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 0-7
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Fixture
Manager
MANAGERIAL RECORD
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George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1886-1926

🕒 46 | 🟩 | 27 🟨 10 🟥 9 | 1.98

Villa Career Form:

Top 4

George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1886-1926

Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Points per Game

🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

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MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Unknown

REFEREE PROFILE

VAR PROFILE (from 2021)

CARDS
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None

CARDS
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None

Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Notably poor performance 🆘, Cards 🟨 Booking, Cards 🟥 Sending off, Disallowed ❌ Goal disallowed, ⚽ Penalty for, 🥅 Penalty against, ❌ Penalty Disallowed

🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

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TEAM NEWS

Villa named an unchanged line up from the team that put 7 past Derby County in the last match.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age:
| 25.86 |

Oldest Player:
CF Archie Hunter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 30.09 |

Youngest Player:
HB Jimmy Cowan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 21.02 |

Referee

🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

MANAGER

George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1886-1926

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Aston Villa

GK Jimmy Warner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
B Albert Aldridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
B Gershom Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
HB Jimmy Cowan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
HB Harry Devey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
HB Tom Clarkson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
IR Albert Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
IR Albert Allen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
IL Dennis Hodgetts | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
IL Billy Dickson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Archie Hunter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

MANAGER

Tom Mitchell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Blackburn Rovers

GK Herbie Arthur | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
B Tom Brandon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
B John Forbes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
HB Jimmy Douglas | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
HB Geordie Dewar | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
HB Jimmy Forrest | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RW Joe Lofthouse | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RW Harry Campbell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LW Nat Walton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LW William Townley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF John Southworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ |

Line Ups

🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Permitted in Period

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Substitutes

🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions permitted in period

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
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No Substitutions Permitted in Period

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

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🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES
STARTING XI
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🔥
🟩
🟨
🟥
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Red
GK Jimmy Warner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
SUBSTITUTES
Player
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🔥
🟩
🟨
🟥
🥅
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Red
UNUSED
Player
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Games 🕒, Starts ✅, Substitute 🔁, Goals ⚽, Assists 🔥, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Conceded 🥅, Clean Sheets ⛔, Unused Substitute 🇺

Squad Bios

🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

SQUAD STATS
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Villa XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

SQUAD STATS
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Blackburn XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

MATCHDAY SQUAD
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MATCHDAY SQUAD
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🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

UNAVAILABLE
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Injury | 1 |
B Frank Coulton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE
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Not Recorded

Unavailable
LEAGUE TABLE
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Tables & Programmes
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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME
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🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

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MATCH QUOTES
"The home team now assumed the aggressive, and aided by a powerful wind made matters warm for the Villa."
Quotes

🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

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MATCH REPORTS

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 Daily Post*
Monday, 21 October 1889
SATURDAY'S FOOTBALL. LEAGUE MATCHES. Blackburn Rovers v. Aston Villa. Played at Blackburn, before 8,000 spectators. The weather was wretched, drizzling rain falling all the time. In the first half the Villa had to play against a strong wind, but notwithstanding this they quickly got dangerous, almost scoring in the first five minutes. Their forwards were playing in a most determined manner, their passing being very good considering the high wind. At length the Rovers broke away, and Townley scored weak goal, a claim for offside being of no avail. The Villa after this made determined efforts, and Hunter struck the crossbar with a splendid shot. Then Hodgetts kicked into Arthur's hands, and a claim that the ball went through was disallowed. Still keeping up the pressure, the Villa forced an unproductive corner, and had hard lines in not scoring. The Rovers then dashed away, and Walton got the ball past Warner, the point was disallowed for off-side. Another goal was disallowed against the Rovers, and Brown, getting down, shot across goal, and Hodgetts tipped it through, but being off-side the goal was disallowed. The home team now assumed the aggressive, and aided by a powerful wind made matters warm for the Villa. From a grand header Southworth, scored the second goal for the Rovers. The Villa tried hard to overcome the home defence, but were unsuccessful, and the Rovers, getting nicely down, Southworth put on a third goaL The Villa still pegged away, but the wind militated much against their passing. Hodgetts, when he had a good chance, shot wide. The Rovers scored again, and at half-time were leading by 4, Aston Villa 0. On restarting the Villa were pressed back, and after some good play Southworth put on two goals for the Rovers. The Villa breaking away, the home defence was taxed, but the visitors' forwards could not get within nice shooting range. Towards the close the game the Rovers made a series of attacks and scored again, the result being— Rovers 7, Villa 0
Reports

🟥 19 Oct 1899, Villa 0-7 Blackburn, Leamington Road

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