Villa lose five consecutive games for the first time this season and have now achieved that feat in each of the last two campaigns under Jimmy McMullan and Jimmy Hogan having previously not lost five in a row since September 1919. As a result Villa make it twelve wins in the last thirty five second tier games and an overall record of sixteen wins, twelve draws and thirteen defeats in forty one division two matches. Jimmy McMullan had recorded five wins, five draws and three defeats in his thirteen division two matches in charge and his successor Jimmy Hogan had now delivered eleven wins, seven draws and ten defeats in his twenty eight game spell.