Like a broken record, Villa dominate but cannot get the goal their play deserves. 

Villa have now played 15 games and in not one have they been outplayed by the opposition however they have just eight wins to show for it alongside four draws and three defeats.

As Villa drop a point so do Coventry and Chesterfield are hit for seven at home. With Sheffield United winning a thriller 5-3 it is the Blades that share second place with Villa, still two behind Coventry.

Centre back Jeff Barker made his Villa debut aged 22 after joining from Scunthorpe United in November 1936 for a fee of £400.

Villa's players all wear black armbands in memory of the Villa Colt player Edward Strain who had died the previous day aged just 17. Strain was great friends with Amos Moss, son of Frank, and a fellow Colt, who all lived locally in St John's, Worcester.

Tommy Clayton scores his first goal for Villa as Villa win for the first time in five under Jimmy Hogan as they beat joint leaders Sheffield United at Villa Park.

What is it about Sheffield sides and on pitch thuggery though? Yet again the unseemly side of the game, whether Wednesday or United, is on show.

Villa bounce back from a first defeat in six to win for the first time in five and make it nine wins, four draws and four defeats in seventeen division two games under Jimmy Hogan.

Eric Houghton hits his sixth of the season but Villa lose for the second time in three games as they are genuinely outplayed for the first time in 1937-38.

Villa lose for the second time in three games to make it nine wins, four draws and five defeats in eighteen division two games under Jimmy Hogan. 

Villa drop to joint third alongside Chesterfield, two points behind leaders Coventry and Sheffield United.

Despite his man of the match performance, centre back Jeff Barker made his third and final appearance for Villa aged 22 before moving on to Huddersfield Town in November 1945.