1910–11 Aston Villa F.C. season

Aston Villa
1910–11 season
ChairmanFrederick Rinder
ManagerGeorge Ramsay
First Division2nd
FA CupSecond Round
Main article: History of Aston Villa F.C. (1874–1961)

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.


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