top of page

Game #3814

Aston Villa

Saturday, 12 May 1984

Villa.gif
2509-2.png

Lost

8th= (-1)

Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥

Division One

Ipswich Town

Portman Road

Attendance: 20,043

Ipswich Town

2-1

Villa.gif

Aston Villa

2509-2.png

Assist(s) | Dennis Mortimer | 29' |

MANAGER

Tony Barton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1982-1984

Villa.gif

Aston Villa

GK Mervyn Day | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB Eamonn Deacy | 🇮🇪 | 🔴 |
CB Steve Foster | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Brendan Ormsby | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Gary Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Dennis Mortimer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Andy Blair | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔴 |
M Steve McMahon | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Paul Birch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
CF Peter Withe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Bobby Ferguson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

2509-2.png

Ipswich Town

GK Paul Cooper | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
D Ian Cranson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Russell Osman | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Frank Yallop | 🇨🇦 |
M Mark Brennan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Trevor Putney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Tommy Parkin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Steve McCall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Eric Gates | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Alan Sunderland | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Jean-Michel d'Avray | 🇿🇦 | ⚽ |

SUBSTITUTES

Villa.gif

🔁 | LB Tony Dorigo | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | for W Mark Walters | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

2509-2.png

No Substitutions Made

🟥 12 May 1984, Villa 1-2 Ipswich, Portman Road.

Villa.gif

ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 12 May 1984

Tony Barton's Villa lose successive games and finish the season joint eighth after seventeen wins, nine draws and sixteen defeats in forty two League games this season. Despite the inconsistency that was a hallmark of the season it was with surprise and great regret that this would prove to be the final game for Villa manager Tony Barton; having won the European Cup in his first season and achieved two top ten finishes, Barton was forced to work with an increasingly depleted squad as League title and European Cup winners were sold seemingly without a coherent replacement plan. Indeed Barton’s departure signalled an acceleration of the break up of the squad that had conquered both England and Europe and set the club on an inevitable course of under-performance over the next three seasons as Chairman Herbert Doug Ellis’ senseless policy of destruction bit hard. Sadly Barton would not be around to help nurture a promising crop of youngsters in the Villa ranks including left back Tony Dorigo who made his Villa debut on the final day of the season aged 18 after joining from school football in 1981. More experienced names were on their way out however as Andy Blair made his final appearance aged 27 before moving on to Sheffield Wednesday in August 1984 for a fee of £350,000. Blair played for Villa between 1981-82 and 1983-84 before returning once again from 1985-86 to 1987-88. Meanwhile, full back Eamonn Deacy made his final Villa appearance aged 25 before moving on to Galway United in July 1984. Deacy played for Villa between 1979-80 and 1983-84 making 39 appearances and scoring once. Deacy was the sixth member of the fourteen man League title winning squad to have been sold by Ellis in the two years since winning the European Cup. Deacy’s departure followed those of Kenny Swain, Jimmy Rimmer, David Geddis, Ken McNaught and Tony Morley.

Subscribe to access Premium Content

Fixture History

Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 17.29.18.png

Referee Record

Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 17.29.33.png

Full Match Timeline

Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 17.29.02.png

Squad Milestones

Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 17.29.47.png

Full Media Pack

Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 17.30.03.png
bottom of page