Vic Crowe's Villa make it one defeat in the last four games with two wins and a draw to keep their survival hopes alive to the final day of the season. Villa have now recorded three wins, four draws and eight defeats in Crowe's fifteen games in charge. As a result Villa make it seven wins, thirteen draws and twenty one defeats in forty one division two matches this season scoring 26 goals and conceding 62. Villa needed to win their final game and Preston North End (two games) and Charlton (one game) lose theirs for Villa to stay up on goal average.