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Game #1576
Aston Villa
Saturday, 2 May 1931


Lost
WWWWL
Division One
Sheffield Wednesday
Hillsborough
Attendance: 12,419
Sheffield Wednesday
3-0

Aston Villa

Assist(s) | None
MANAGER
Billy Smith | 🏴 | 1926-1934

Aston Villa
GK Reg Miles |
CB Alec Talbot |
FB Teddy Bowen |
FB Tommy Smart |
M Billy Kingdon |
M Joe Tate |
W Eric Houghton |
W Reg Chester |
F Joe Beresford |
F Billy Walker |
CF Pongo Waring |
MANAGER
Robert Brown | 🏴 |

Sheffield Wednesday
SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions permitted in period
SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions Permitted in Period
🟥 2 May 1931, Villa 0-3 Wednesday, Hillsborough

ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 2 May 1931
Villa end a remarkable season as runners up having scored ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT GOALS - more than any other League team in history.
Villa’s outstanding form throughout the season was the first time under Billy Smith that everything came together as each of his previous seasons had featured deep fallow periods sandwich between excellence.
Although Pongo Waring’s fifty goal haul, forty nine in the League, took the headlines there were heroes throughout the team as Eric Houghton hit thirty and there was a remarkable consistency in team selection that had rarely been seen in recent decades.
The greatest team, and season to not end up as Champions? Undoubtedly.
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