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Game #4699

Aston Villa

Monday, 21 January 2002

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Won

7th (-)

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟩

Premier League

Charlton Athletic

The Valley

Attendance: 25,681

Charlton Athletic

1-2

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Jlloyd Samuel | 8’ | George Boateng | 42’ |

MANAGER

John Gregory | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1998-2002

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Aston Villa

GK Peter Schmeichel | 🇩🇰 |
RB Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Jlloyd Samuel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 |
CB Olof Mellberg | 🇸🇪 |
M Mustapha Hadji | 🇲🇦 |
M George Boateng | 🇳🇱 | 🔥 |
M Paul Merson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
F Darius Vassell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
CF Juan Pablo Ángel | 🇨🇴 | ⚽ | 🟨 |

MANAGER

Alan Curbishley (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Charlton Athletic

GK Dean Kiely | 🇮🇪 |
LB Chris Powell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Jorge Costa | 🇵🇹 | 🟨 |
CB Mark Fish | 🇿🇦 |
RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Graham Stuart | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Scott Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Claus Jensen | 🇩🇰 | 🔁 |
W John Robinson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
F Jason Euell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Jonatan Johansson | 🇫🇮 |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 M Gareth Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Lee Hendrie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 88’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | RB Luke Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (LB Paul Konchesky | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Scott Parker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | (CB Jonathan Fortune | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)
🔁 | M Claus Jensen | 🇩🇰 | (F Kevin Lisbie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |)

🟩 21 January 2002, Villa 2-1 Charlton, The Valley.

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ON THIS DAY

Monday, 21 January 2002

  • Having won just once in the previous 13 games, Villa, in typical John Gregory boom or bust style, had now won 2 in 2 thanks once again to striking duo Juan Pablo Ángel and Darius Vassell.

  • Yet there would be no more John Gregory as the manager’s relationship with the always difficult, and often incompetent, Ellis regime finally came to a head and Gregory walked. 

  • Gregory had taken Villa on a number of occasions to the top of the Premier League and always wanted that extra player to drive Villa on to the title - something that was never forthcoming from the Chairman.

  • Indeed Gregory’s early record as Villa boss saw him eclipse all his predecessors but a raft of dressing room fall outs, odd over priced signings and an apparently toxic relationship with the Chairman took the shine off Gregory’s reign and stymied his potential. 

  • Still however Gregory is looked on with great affection and his era can be reasonably viewed as the cross-over from club to player power and his reaction to the change - albeit understandable - wasn’t a recipe for dressing room harmony. 

  • The likes of Yorke, Southgate, Ehiogu and James are just a few of the names whose careers were created and or rescued by Villa only for them to bite the hands that fed them. 

  • Unsurprisingly the combustible Gregory gave such attitudes and players short shrift. 

  • Overall Gregory led Villa for 189 eventful games and left with a win rate of 44% delivering 1.58 points per game - the best record for a Villa boss since Graham Taylor - and the best top flight record since Ron Saunders.

  • In a different era John Gregory would and probably could have achieved significantly more.

  • As a result of Gregory's departure, Villa face a leadership vacuum and huge uncertainty as ironically the pressure ramps up on the individual responsible.

  • Juan Pablo Ángel scores his 15th goal in a Villa shirt on his 29th start (33 Appearances) to make it W14 D7 L12, 15 Goals, 4 Assists and 3 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.52 starts so far in his Villa career.

  • George Boateng contributes his 1st assist in a Villa shirt on his 118th appearance (110 Starts) to make it W49 D35 L34, 5 Goals, 1 Assist and 26 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

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