Aston Villa who did not take part in any football except a few friendly matches near the end of the season, showed a loss of £11,751. From this is deducted the balance from the last account of £6,709 leaving an adverse balance to carry forward of £5,042.
Aston Villa did not take part in any Regional or Cup matches because their ground was not available, but as the ban has now been lifted the directors have informed the Football League that the clubs will take part in whatever competition is promoted next season. It is also planned, subject to the exigencies of the situation, to run a team of young players in a local league.
Whereas Villas gate receipts in 1938-39 were £63,584, the few matches they played last season yielded only £5,718.
Sunderland, who did not take part in the Regional Competition but com pleted in the Football League War Cup, show a net loss of £3,446 for the year ending May 4.
Their total net income was £6,421 against an average of about £36,000 in previous years.—Reuter. by 14-0. The winners' forwards took the credit for all goals scored, Logan, Oliveria and Strand being in their best form. Vernick scored two goals out of the 14 in a swim through from his defence position, but on the whole it remained to the forwards to keep the pressure on and this Logan and Oliveria undertook in good style. The losers were sadly out of the picture owing to their poor marking ard they were allowing their opposite numbers to get away unhampered with the result that point after point came from an unmarked working in the forwards and the former was unlucky not to have In the second half, the Army side had to defend the deep end and here they fell away badly. A succession of passes put Wyatt away to score and then Butt scored and Pure put in the fifth goal. The Seaforths were in possession close to the Walrus goal and from a free throw, Pickles scored. This was the losers' only point and their attempts at scoring hereafter were without success, the Walrusses going on to get two more pointy through Wyatt and Butt, bringing the final score to 7-1.
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