1910–11 Aston Villa F.C. season
season of football team
The 1910-11 English football season was Aston Villa's 23rd season in the Football League competing in the First Division, the top flight of English football at the time.
Cocky Hunter, the first Villa player to be ever sent off, was sent off for a second time.
There were debuts for Bill Renneville, Jimmy Jones, Horace Henshall, Clem Stephenson and Brendel Anstey.
Aston Villa featured in the plot of Arnold Bennett's 1911 comic novel The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns, putting in an offer for the fictional player, Callear.
Charity Shield
Aston Villa F.C. started the 1910–11 season as champions, so opened the season in the Charity Shield game against Southern League champions Brighton & Hove Albion. Brighton are the only club to win just the Shield but never the FA Cup or the League. In the five years that the Charity Shield was contested by the winners of the Football League and Southern League between 1908 and 1912, this was the only occasion on which the Southern League champions prevailed. The victory remains Brighton's only national honour to date and they, not Aston Villa, were crowned the 'Champions of all England'.
First Division
Matches
Source: avfchistory.co.uk
FA Cup
In the First round, 36 of the 40 clubs from the First and Second divisions joined the 12 clubs who came through the qualifying rounds. The remaining sides, Stockport County, Lincoln City, Huddersfield Town and Gainsborough Trinity were entered in the fourth qualifying round.
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