It's 12 days since their last game as the game scheduled for the previous weekend - Everton away - was called off an hour before kick off due to fog. Although the rest was welcomed the coming fixture list already looks saturated with Villa in both cup competitions and needing to complete eighteen more League matches before the scheduled end of the campaign in April.

Villa fall two behind before Gerry Hitchens equals Johnny Dixon's post-war scoring record of 28 goals with an equalising brace. Villa remain 6th.

Joe Mercer's Villa with just three defeats in their last nineteen make it thirteen wins, ten at home, four draws and nine defeats, seven away, in twenty six games following their return to the top flight.