Swansea City 1 v 2 Aston Villa Competition - League Division 3 Venue - Vetch Field Date - 27 December 1971 Kick off - 3pm Teams: Swansea City (Manager - Roy Bentley) Tony Millington Peter Jones Tony Screen Wyndham Evans Herbie Williams Barrie Hole Billy Screen Geoff Thomas Glenville Davies Dai Gwyther Brian Evans Aston Villa Goalkeeper Jim Cumbes Defender/Right back Mick Wright Defender/Centre back George Curtis Left back Charlie Aitken Centre half Fred Turnbull Midfielder Jimmy Brown Midfielder Bruce Rioch Midfielder/Forward Willie Anderson Centre forward Andy Lochhead Forward Geoff Vowden Winger Ray Graydon The ref was Mr. D J Biddle (Bristol) I went to the Vetch that day - my 14th birthday - with my late father. We played well in front of a pretty full Vetch Field - the crowd was 24,419 - and I still think a draw would have been a fair result. I remember Barrie Hole skying a volley over the bar at the Double Decker end. Graydon and Aitken scored for Villa.
I remember that one being there as a 16 year old on a packed North Bank. There were a load of Villa fans there if I remember correctly.
There were - and also at the corresponding match the previous season in August 1970. The scoreline was the same 1-2 to Villa. I was on the East Bank that day. For the game 49 years ago today, I was in the Centre Stand.
Yes the Swans were better than Villa on Boxing Day 1971 but lost...I was on the North Bank and if memory serves correctly quite a few Villa skinheads tried to take the NB but were kicked off by the then Swansea hard core...I wasn’t one of those
Snap Azzuri. I stood at the East end of the North Bank and the skinheads stood nearer the West tunnel.
