Graham Turner’s Villa end a run of two defeats but now have just five wins in thirty one Division One games and fifteen defeats. Meanwhile, both Andy Blair and Steve Hunt made their first appearances after rejoining the club from Sheffield Wednesday and West Bromwich Albion respectively. Blair, 26, was signed for £100,000 having been sold to Wednesday in August 1984 for £60,000, whilst Hunt, 29, cost £90,000 after Villa had sold him to the New York Cosmos in June 1977 for £26,000.