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Aston Villa On This Day recounts, in diary form, major events and magic moments in the history of the Villa Park club.From its foundation by the congregation of Handsworth's Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel in Victorian Birmingham to the ignominy of Third Division football Aston Villa has been a unique football club. On This Day includes some of the most famous names such as John Devey, Archie Hunter and William McGregor, founder of the Football League, of which Villa were original members. With an entry for every day, this book will take any fan on a wonderful journey from Victorian FA Cup finals to that magic 1982 night in Rotterdam when a Peter Withe goal clinched the European Cup.Key features- Part of the popular and successful On This Day series which features a number of football, cricket and sports clubs- Includes contemporary and historic images of club legends and from the key events and matches from the club's colourful history- Written by veteran football writer and Sky Sports pundit Brian Beard

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Publié par	Pitch Publishing (Brighton) Ltd
Date de parution	27 septembre 2012
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9781909178205
Langue	English

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ASTON VILLA
On This Day
History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year
All statistics, facts and figures are correct as of 31st July 2012
© Brian Beard
Brian Beard has asserted his rights in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.
Published By: Pitch Publishing (Brighton) Ltd A2 Yeoman Gate Yeoman Way Durrington BN13 3QZ
Email: info@pitchpublishing.co.uk Web: www.pitchpublishing.co.uk
First published 2012
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Dedicated to the fans of Aston Villa. Only you Villa supporters know to what extent you have enjoyed and endured events down the years.
I also dedicate this book to my patient wife Bozenka, for her understanding towards the plethora of football history books, magazines and newspaper cuttings that littered my house in the writing of this book - and to my sons Ben and Sam who helped tidy up the mayhem.
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank my publishers Pitch, plus Dean Rockett for the proof reading – and Aston Villa Football Club for officially endorsing the book. Several books proved invaluable during research, most notably Aston Villa: A Complete Record 1874-1988,The Essential History of England , and various Rothmans and SkySports Football Year Books . While several websites provided excellent source material, including the official site of the Association of Football Statisticians, the AstonVillaPlayerdatabase.com , soccerbase.com , the website of the Birmingham Mail, lerwill-life.org , LiberalEnglandblogspot.com , astonvilla-mad.co.uk , www.worldfootball.net , Wikipedia and of course the official website of Aston Villa. Finally, I also relied on several of my personal collection of Football Monthly and various ancient football magazines, match coverage notebooks and yellowing newspaper match reports!
INTRODUCTION
When I was growing up in the 1960s Aston Villa were the biggest club near my home town of Redditch. Charlie Aitken, Lew Chatterley, Andy Lochhead were just a few of their star names. There were the brothers Rioch, Bruce, who played hundreds of games, and Neil, who did not. Chico Hamilton was a teen starlet who became a Villa legend. Jimmy Brown became the club’s youngest ever captain, and led their youth team to the FA Youth Cup in 1972. And there were many more, some are mentioned within these pages, some are not. Some are remembered for sterling deeds in the claret and blue, like John Devey, Archie Hunter, Harry Hampton and Johnny Dixon.
The Villa, no one local ever prefixed that with the name of the area of Birmingham which the club had called home since Queen Victoria reigned, oozed history and tradition. League championships were proudly discussed though five of their seven titles also came when Victoria was queen.
However, a glorious heritage was no guarantee to elite football and Aston Villa slipped into the third tier of English football for the first time in 1970 but the fans rallied and unheard of attendances punctuated their two-year exile. I watched, with 37,581 others, as Torquay were thrashed 5-1 in the last Third Division game staged at Villa Park as the team stormed to the Third Division title. I watched through the misty gloom of a February night in 1972 when Santos and the football god Pele came to town, thanks to a canny piece of Doug Ellis business. I saw Andy Lochhead power Villa to one of their seven League Cup finals and like countless thousands of Villa fans digested regular media reports of internal unrest in B6 6HE.
Villa is more than a football club. It has merited mentions in popular culture in everything from Porridge (Lennie Godber was a fan) to Harold Pinter’s play The Dumb Waiter . One of the 27 managers who have led the club, arguably the most controversial, Tommy Docherty famously said, after becoming Doug Ellis’s first appointment: “You could hang 11 Villa shirts on a line and 10,000 fans would turn up to watch.” That, perhaps, more than anything ever written about the club sums it up.
I have watched Villa, down the years, played against their youth team, though Jimmy Brown may not remember, covered many of their matches and now written a book about the club. I can count former players and managers as friends. You can see how The Villa gets into one’s psyche, it’s more than a football club.
Enjoy.
Brian Beard
FRIDAY 1st JANUARY 1886
Harold Halse was born in Leytonstone, London. He played his early football with Newportonians and Wanstead, netting a phenomenal 204 goals in just two seasons. After spells with Clapton Orient and Southend United, Harold joined Manchester United in 1908 and helped them win the 1909 FA Cup. After 50 goals in 124 appearances for United he signed for Villa in July 1912. In his ninth match he scored all five goals against Derby County to equal Harry Hampton’s club record for the most goals in one game. In 1913 Harold was in the Villa side that won the FA Cup before he moved to Chelsea. His one season at Villa Park, 1912/13, saw him net 28 goals in 37 appearances. He died in Colchester in 1951, aged 65.
SATURDAY 2nd JANUARY 1932
George Brown entered the Villa record books as only the fourth player to score five times in a league game away to Leicester City at Filbert Street which ended 8-3. Billy Walker with two and Joe Beresford completed the scoring. In the next fixture, George scored four of the goals as Liverpool were trounced 6-1.
TUESDAY 2nd JANUARY 1973
England beat Holland 3-1 in an Under-23 international at Highbury. Two goals from Dennis Mortimer prompted calls for him to replace the retiring England icon Bobby Charlton in the senior squad. The Villa man’s first goal followed a “Dutch-like” brilliant individual run then a trademark free-kick.
THURSDAY 3rd JANUARY 1924
Doug Ellis was born in Hooton, Cheshire. Although Doug spent two years as a schoolboy with Tranmere Rovers he is best known for being chairman and a major shareholder of Aston Villa Football Club, in two spells. The first was from 1968 until 1975, when he was replaced as chairman and ousted from the board. During his absence Villa won the Football League championship and the European Cup, in 1981 and 1982 respectively. He returned to the club as chairman in 1982 and remained until 2006 when he sold the club to Randy Lerner. “Deadly Doug” is widely regarded as the first paid football club director.
SUNDAY 4th JANUARY 1920
Henry “Harry” Arthur Parkes was born in Erdington, Birmingham. He joined Villa from local side Boldmere St Michaels in April 1939 but had to wait until after the Second World War to make his mark with the club. A one-club man, between 1946 and retirement in 1954 he made 320 appearances, mainly at full-back, scoring just three goals. His first was on Christmas Day 1946 in the Villa Park 2-2 draw with Huddersfield Town and the other two, both penalties, came in 1950/51, away to Wolves and home to Portsmouth. However he did score 42 goals in 144 wartime outings for Villa at centre-forward and during the war, in 1944, he won his only medal with the club, in the League North Cup final win over Blackpool. Harry missed just 12 league games in 12 seasons and was very unfortunate not to play for England in 1946 when he suffered a severe arm injury. He never got another chance. After his playing career, Harry opened a very successful sports outfitters shop in Corporation Street and served on the board at Villa Park in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2000 Villa fans voted him the 1940s Player of the Decade. Harry, as everyone in Birmingham called him, died in 2009.
WEDNESDAY 5th JANUARY 2011
Villa dropped into the Premiership relegation zone for the first time since 2002 when Phil Bardsley’s “rare as hen’s teeth” late goal gave Sunderland a narrow win at the Stadium of Light. It proved an eventful night for Emile Heskey who hit the bar from four yards in the first half. He was then sent off in the second period for raising his hands against Jordan Henderson.
THURSDAY 6th JANUARY 2011
Kyle Walker arrived at Bodymoor Heath following confirmation of his loan until the end of the season from Tottenham Hotspur. The England under-21 defender said: “I’m delighted about being here and proving I am good enough to play in the Premier League.” It was Walker’s second loan spell away from Tottenham having spent an extended period at QPR, where his initial six-month stay was extended until three days before he moved to Villa Park.
THURSDAY 7th JANUARY 1893
Aston Villa’s first ever Football League game to be played on this date resulted in a 5-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday. Denny Hodgetts scored twice, as did James A Logan. William Devey was the other scorer.
SATURDAY 8th JANUARY 2011
Ashley Young was sent off for receiving a second yellow card as Villa won 3-1 at Sheffield United in the FA Cup third round. Former Blade Kyle Walker scored the opener with his first career goal. Marc Albrighton made it 2-0 before ex-Villa youngster Jamie Ward pulled a goal back. Stiliyan Petrov completed the scoring.
SATURDAY 9th JANUARY 1999
Aston Villa dropped off the top of the Premiership for the second time in two weeks with a 0-0 draw away to Middlesbrough.
SATURDAY 10th JANUARY 1948
Visitors Manchester United sh