Thoughts and issues regarding the past and present of a great football club by "The Chronicler".

Thursday 13 August 2020

Aston Villa History Site Major Upgrade

I am delighted to announce that facilities on my history website are being extended to include details of each match by season, including teams, substitutions, scorers etc etc. 

In order to provide improved linkage on my website to access these new facilities, the Match Centre page has been re-vamped.

To begin with, only league matches are being included to this new level of detail, and at this point only seasons since 1992 (the start of the Premier League) are shown. You can get direct access to this new page by clicking here. All the intended data for all league seasons prior to 1992 will be 'up' by the end of September, and the teams for all Cup matches will be 'up' later this year.

This is an attempt at showing statistical information in a more clear manner, while including the most relevant matters related to each match and events in the season. One departure from previous publications of this ilk is to keep league and cup results separate, but the players' combined records will be summarised and shown in the Players Database on this site.

NOTE that from the start of the Premier League (1992) I show all red card incidents - both Villa and opposition players - so that including the timing of Villa substitutes there is a bigger picture of comings and goings on the pitch. Also shown from 1992 is a chart of when the goals were scored in each match.

Please note that not only have I been a Villa historian for over 20 years but for 40 years was a computer applications consultant/designer/developer, and ran my own consultancy on that basis for 20 years, dealing with significant organisations. Thus in developing this site I have spent a considerable amount of time thinking about how to present this data in the most accessible way. Note that each season's match and team details are displayed with an image having a right-side slider to bring in and out additional data.

Thank you for reading this and please mail me (see the how-to on my webpages) if you have any difficulties or observations to make.

Many thanks,

UTV!