Villa beat Tottenham at White Hart Lane to make it 🟩 six wins in eleven League games in 1985 as Graham Turner's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa 🟩 win for a second consecutive match having not won in the previous five, as are result Villa make it 🟩 eleven wins in thirty three League games, whilst 🟥 losing eleven. 

Goalkeeper Kevin Poole 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 21 makes his debut in a Villa shirt following his promotion from the Youth Team to become the 632nd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Winger Mark Walters 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ 20th goal on his 🕒 107th appearance in a Villa shirt (93 Starts).

Colin Gibson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 contributes his ⚽ 🔥 30th goal involvement on his 🕒 219th appearance in a Villa shirt.

Centre forward Peter Withe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 225th appearance in a Villa shirt but has now scored just ⚽ 3 goals since his 🕒 200th appearance as the team continues to struggle under Graham Turner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

Villa make it 🟩 three consecutive wins and three clean sheets as Villa remain 10th in the table under Graham Turner with 🟥 two defeats and 🟩 seven wins in their last 🕒 twelve League games.

Since the turn of the year Villa had 🟩 won four consecutive League games, followed by a five game winless run, and were now on another winning streak with eight left to play and a top ten finish - which had seemed so unlikely before the new year - looking possible.

Centre back Brendan Ormsby 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ 5th goal in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 119th appearance.

Centre forward Paul Rideout 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ 20th goal in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 57th appearance (50 Starts) having scores his first 10 ⚽ in 🕒 42 games.

Villa concede after 10' and lose to Albion at the Hawthorns for only their 🟥 third defeat in thirteen League games as they remain 10th in the first division.

Graham Turner's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa see their three game winning run end as they fail to score for the fifteenth time this season.

This goalscoring blank however was an extraordinary one with Villa laying almost constant siege to the Albion goal from first to last. 

Villa make it 🟩 twelve wins in 🕒 thirty five League games, whilst also 🟥 losing twelve. 

Centre forward Didier Six 🇫🇷 makes his 18th and final appearance in a Villa shirt (14 Starts) before moving on to Metz 🇫🇷 in June. Six 🇫🇷 had only joined Villa in October and left with a record of 🟩 W6 🟨 D6 🟥 L6, ⚽ 2 Goals and 🔥 2 Assists.

Villa 🟩 win for the first time in 🕒 five League games as struggling QPR are beaten at Villa Park as Villa record their 🟩 eighth win in seventeen to remain 10th.

Villa make it 🟩 thirteen wins in 🕒 thirty nine League games, whilst 🟥 losing fourteen.

Colin Gibson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 225th appearance in a Villa shirt.

Centre forward Peter Withe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores a ⚽ brace for this first goals in 🕒 24 games under Graham Turner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Villa hammer second from bottom Sunderland to record their 🟩 ninth win in 🕒 eighteen League games in 1985 and remain 10th in the first division table five points clear of Albion in eleventh.

Graham Turner's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa 🟩 win for a second successive game to make it 🟩 fourteen wins in 🕒 forty League games, whilst also 🟥 losing fourteen.

Colin Gibson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ 12th goal in 🕒 83 matches, having scored ⚽ three in his first 🕒 144 appearances in a Villa shirt.

Centre forward Peter Withe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ third goal in 🕒 two games and his ⚽ 90th in a Villa shirt in 🕒 231 appearances having done so at a rate of one every 2.57 games.

Villa lose their penultimate game of the season as they are beaten at Villa Park by Luton.

Villa fail to score for the seventeenth time this season and make it fourteen wins in forty one League games, losing fifteen under Graham Turner.

Gordon Cowans, 26, becomes the latest player forced out of the club by Chairman Herbert Douglas Ellis as he makes his 357th and final appearance of his first spell with Villa before joining Bari in July for a fee of £500,000. 

Cowans is the ninth member of the fourteen man League title winning squad that has now been sold by the Herbert Douglas Ellis regime. Cowans played for Villa between 1975-76 and 1984-85 and his departure followed those of Kenny Swain, Ken McNaught, Jimmy Rimmer, David Geddis. Tony Morley, Eamonn Deacy, Des Bremner and Dennis Mortimer.

Villa lose the final two games of the season to make it 🟥 seven defeats and 🟩 nine wins in their 🕒 20 League games in 1985, but even that is a much improved performance from the initial four months of the campaign under Graham Turner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

Overall Villa make it 🟩 fourteen wins in 🕒 forty two League games, whilst 🟥 losing sixteen as they finish 10th having finished 8th= under the popular Tony Barton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 the previous season underlining the folly of Ellis' unnecessary managerial change. 

Villa, though, achieved a second successive 10th placed finish that had looked simply impossible pre Christmas 1984. Yet Ellis and Turner have even more to prove in 1985-86. 

In truth, Herbert Douglas Ellis’ outrageous sacking of Tony Barton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 placed a cloud over the 1984-85 season before it even started. Few believed that the dignified Barton was really sacked for not delivering European football but even so that is a valuable measure with which to test Graham Turner’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 success against. 

Had Graham Turner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 achieved European football? No. 

Had Graham Turner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🟩 won more games than Tony Barton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿? No. 15 vs. 17 

Had Graham Turner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🟥 lost less games than Tony Barton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿? No. 

Had Graham Turner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 delivered more points than Tony Barton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿? No. 56 vs. 60 

Beyond the statistics however there was, as there often is, a fervent hope, a belief, if not an expectation that it could come good under Turner. Indeed in perhaps a handful of games in 1984-85 there was a suggestion that something better was possible, the vast majority of performances however suggested more struggles ahead. 

Combined with the continued unnecessary and wilfully damaging loss of senior, influential and talented players. The fact was that Turner’s management style and aura was not for every player. It was perhaps inevitable therefore that Villa were now immeasurably weaker under Ellis and Turner than in 1983-84. 

It’s probably difficult for a modern day fan to understand the influence the old, provincial football Chairman had over a club in the 1970s and 1980s but it was akin to a personal fiefdom. 

The enmity to the likes of Ellis wasn’t Villa’s alone but none of these self proclaimed Lords of the Manor had wreaked as much havoc as him, taking the Champions of Europe to rank poor mediocrity in two seasons. 

First appearing in the 60’s, Ellis was immediately a de-stabilising and unlikable influence on Aston Villa, the 80’s however were where his real harm was done. Those of us who lived it could, and would never, forgive Ellis as he held the club back throughout the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s.

The high-points experienced by Villa over that period were despite, not because of, Ellis, as greater talents, always for a short period of time, were able to inspire Villa to better things before Ellis stepped in to take the club backwards. 

What was, and remains, unifying however was the concern at the Herbert Douglas Ellis policy of selling the club’s stars being extended to the most promising of youth players. 

Ellis brought in one ageing foreign 'star' who lasted all of 6 months whilst overseeing the sale of seven first-teamers, including four who had won both the League and European Cup in the previous three seasons. 

Also gone was 1984-85’s top goalscorer and Tony Barton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 signing Paul Rideout 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. A transfer that laid bare that Ellis destructive tendencies had nothing to do with an ageing squad but rather a thirst for money. For good measure Ellis and Turner also deemed it necessary to jettison Villa's other striker of renown, Peter Withe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. 

Centre forward Paul Rideout 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 20 make his 🕒 63rd and final appearance in a Villa before being sold to Bari for a fee of £400,000 in June 1985 as the opportunity proved too tempting for Ellis to not cash in. Rideout left with a record of 🟩 W26 🟨 D12 🟥 L25, ⚽ 22 Goals and 🔥 7 Assists.

Centre forward Peter Withe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 33 makes his 🕒 233rd and final appearance in a Villa shirt before moving on to Sheffield United in July 1985. Withe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 was the tenth member of the fourteen man League title winning squad that had now left the club.

As a result, just three years after Villa lifted the European Cup and four years since winning the League title there are now just four players left on Villa’s books who had been the backbone of that all-conquering side.

Withe who like everybody struggled under Turner's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 reign had scored just ⚽ 12 goals in 🕒 43 appearances under Villa's latest boss including ⚽ three in his 🕒 final 4 appearances. Prior to Turner's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 unwelcome arrival Withe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 had hit ⚽ 78 goals in 🕒 190 games and contributed 🔥 32 assists. A better manager would have continued to extract those results from an always committed player.

Withe left with a record of 🟩 W111 🟨 D48 🟥 L74, ⚽ 90 Goals and 🔥 44 Assists.

Villa win for the first time in seven first division games after four consecutive defeats to climb back to 17th in the table.

Graham Turner’s Villa win for the first time in seven League games and end a run of four consecutive losses but they now have just five wins in twenty two Division One games and ten defeats and sit in 17th place in the table.

Villa crash to 18th in the table as they are beaten by a Leicester side who sat just one place above them at the start of play.

Graham Turner’s Villa lose for the fifth time in six League games and now have just five wins in twenty three Division One games and eleven defeats as they fall to 19th place in the table.

Villa follow one diabolical performance with another and are knocked out of the FA Cup by second tier Millwall.

Graham Turner’s Villa import their woeful League form into the FA Cup as they lose to mid table second tier side Millwall in the fourth round. 

Meanwhile, the man Turner replaced, Tony Barton, skewers Herbert Douglas Ellis as only a man of his dignity and integrity could.

Villa, playing for the first time in the League in four games, are held to a goalless 🟨 draw at Villa Park leaving them with 🟩 one win in 🕒 thirteen division one games under Graham Turner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

Villa's draw with 15th placed Southampton at Villa Park sees them fall to 19th in the table, two points clear of the relegation places. 

Villa now have just 🟩 five wins in 🕒 twenty eight Division One games and 🟥 thirteen defeats.

Goalkeeper Kevin Poole 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 keeps his ⛔ 5th clean sheet in his first 🕒 11 games for the club.

Villa earn a shock Highbury 🟩 win - only their second victory in sixteen games - to set up a two legged League Cup Semi final with Oxford thanks to an excellent display from Paul Birch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

Graham Turner’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa line up for their sixth Cup match in the last nine fixtures and 🟩 win for only the second time in that run, but it is a victory at Highbury that takes them through to the League Cup semi finals.

Midfielder Paul Birch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽ scores one and 🔥 creates one to make it ⚽ 🔥 20 Goal Involvements in 🕒 88 appearance in a Villa shirt (84 Starts).

Centre forward Andy Gray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 makes his 175th appearance in a Villa shirt.

Graham Turner’s Villa 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 can only draw with Billy McNeill's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Manchester City and now have just 🟩 six wins and 🟥 sixteen defeats in thirty four Division One games to sit nineteenth in the table, only out of the bottom three on goal difference.

Centre forward Simon Stainrod 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 contributes his 20th goal involvement on his 🕒 34th appearance in a Villa shirt (32 Starts).

Midfielder Andy Blair 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 contributes his 10th goal involvement on his 🕒 51st appearance in a Villa shirt (37 Starts).

Villa win for the second time in four League games under Graham Turner but only the third time in twenty first division matches as they climb to 19th in the table to move out of the relegation places on goal difference.

Graham Turner’s Villa win for the second time in four League matches but only the second time in 1986 as a result have just seven wins in thirty five Division One games and sixteen defeats and sit nineteenth in the table, only out of the bottom three on goal difference.

Villa return to the ground of their League Cup humiliation and need Simon Stainrod's 18th of the season to save a second hand draw as they fall back to 20th, in the relegation places a point from safety behind their opponents.

Graham Turner’s Villa make it three games unbeaten but can only draw with 17th placed Oxford and now have just seven wins in thirty six Division One games and sixteen defeats but climb to eighteenth in the table, one point ahead of the drop zone.

Ten man Villa extend their unbeaten run to four games but can only 🟨 draw for the second successive game to leave them with 🟩 seven wins in thirty seven Division One games and 🟥 sixteen defeats so far this season under Graham Turner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

Villa sit 20th in the table, one point ahead of the drop zone with five games to play.

Winger Mark Walters 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 150th start in a Villa shirt (164 Appearances).

Tony Daley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ second goal of the season and his second in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 30th appearance (22 Starts) to make it 🟩 W7 🟨 D11 🟥 L12, ⚽ 2 Goals and 🔥 2 Assists so far in his Villa career.

Tony Dorigo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is 🟥 sent off on his 🕒 82nd appearance in a Villa shirt.

Graham Turner’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa make it five games unbeaten as they ⚽ score four second half goals to see off Graham Taylor's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Watford. 

Villa win for the third time in seven first division games as Andy Gray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 scores his ⚽ first goal since January. 

Villa though are forced to take a penalty after the referee refuses to give a goal after Brian Talbot’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 hand deflected the ball into his own net. 

Regardless the much needed win sends Villa 17th, two points clear of the relegation places with four to play.

Andy Gray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 scores his ⚽ first goal in 🕒 16 games and his ⚽ 7th in 🕒 43 games since his return to the club.

Villa 🟩 win successive League games for the first time since September and climb to sixteenth in the table, five points clear of the relegation places with three to play, as form, however patchy over 90 minutes, comes at just the right time.

Villa now have 🟩 nine wins in thirty nine Division One games and 🟥 sixteen defeats this season under Graham Turner.

Tony Daley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 contributes his 5th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 31st appearance (22 Starts) to make it 🟩 W8 🟨 D11 🟥 L12, ⚽ 2 Goals and 🔥 3 Assists so far in his Villa career.

Defender David Norton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (24 Starts) following his promotion from the Youth Team.

Steve Hodge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ 10th goal in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 47th appearance.

Villa leave it late but two goal in the final six minutes secure their first division safety with a game to play as they sit 16th in the table, eight points clear of the relegation places.

Graham Turner’s Villa make it three wins in four games and one defeat in eight as they secure top flight safety with a game to spare. Villa climb to fifteenth, five points clear of the drop zone with a game still to play. Villa's win means they now have ten wins in forty one Division One games and seventeen defeats this season.

Graham Turner’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa end the season on 🟥 defeat and finish in sixteenth place, three points off the relegation places. 

Villa's final defeat of the season means they have just 🟩 ten wins in forty two Division One games and 🟥 eighteen defeats this season.

Villa suffer their 🟥 tenth away defeat of the season despite taking a 2’ lead through top scorer Simon Stainrod.

Centre forward Simon Stainrod 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 contributes his 25th goal involvement on his 🕒 42nd appearance in a Villa shirt (40 Starts).

Villa are hammered at home on the opening day of the season but Graham Turner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿assures us there is nothing to panic about.

Graham Turner's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa open the season with a heavy defeat to Tottenham and have now 🟩 won just six of their last twenty eight league games, 🟥 losing thirteen. 

Centre forward Garry Thompson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his debut in a Villa shirt aged 26 after joining from Sheffield Wednesday for a fee of £450,000 in June 1986 to become the 637th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Villa concede three for the second successive game after being reduced to ten men after just 13 minutes.

Graham Turner's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa lose their opening two games of the season and have now 🟩 won just six of their last twenty nine league games, 🟥 losing fourteen.

Villa face Wimbledon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 for the first time in competitive football, Wimbledon become the 129th team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football.

Centre forward Garry Thompson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ first goal in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 2nd appearance.

Steve Hodge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 50th appearance in a Villa shirt.

Right Back Gary Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is 🟥 sent off on his 274th appearance in a Villa shirt.

Villa play a five man defence but two of them - Allan Evans and Paul Elliott - gift QPR their winner to make it three consecutive defeats under Graham Turner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 as they sit bottom of the first division table.

Villa lose their 🟥 third of three games so far this season under Graham Turner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Graham Turner's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa had now won just six of their last thirty league games, 🟥 losing fifteen.

Centre back Martin Keown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 20 made his debut in a Villa shirt after moving from Arsenal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in June 1986 for a fee of £200,000 to become the 638th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Villa secure their first win of the season thanks to a brace from substitute, and frustrated sixth choice striker, Paul Kerr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

Graham Turner's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa win for the first time this season but had now 🟩 won just seven of their last thirty one league games, 🟥 losing fifteen.

Winger Steve Hunt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (21 Starts).

Midfielder Paul Kerr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ 5th & 6th goals in a Villa shirt (27 Appearances).

Villa lose for the fourth time in five games to fall back to twentieth in the first division table.

Graham Turner's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa had now lost four of their five Division One games this season and won just seven of their last thirty two, losing sixteen.

Villa ship six in a City Ground horror show to make it five defeats in six, conceding fourteen, prompting Graham Turner's long overdue dismissal. 

Yet the implicated Chairman survives.

Graham Turner's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa had now won just seven of their last thirty three league games, losing seventeen including this 6-0 embarrassment. 

This was to prove Turner’s last game in charge of Villa as the senseless strategy of Herbert Doug Ellis, to prematurely and wilfully dismantle the league title and European Cup winning team, paid its inevitable dividends.

Ron Wylie takes caretaker charge of Villa as they make it ten goals conceded in two games to fall to bottom of the table two points off safety after seven games with Billy McNeill named as the new manager.

Villa had now won just seven of their last 34 league games losing eighteen.

Villa face second division Derby for the third time in five games to beat them in the unloved and inconvenient Full Members Cup.

Villa win for the 🟩 seventh time in eleven games under Billy McNeill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.

On his first appearance in 7 months, Forward Gary Shaw 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽ scores a brace to record his 100th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 206th appearance in a Villa shirt (200 Starts) at a rate of one goal involvement for every 2.06 games he has played so far in his Villa career. 

Winger Tony Daley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽ scores his 5th goal in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 44th appearance (35 Starts) to make it 🟩 W13 🟨 D12 🟥 L19, ⚽ 5 Goals and 🔥 5 Assists so far in his Villa career.

Billy McNeill's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Villa lose to Southampton in the fourth round of the League Cup.

But it occurs following one of the worst refereeing performances of all time as the highly suspect David Axcell allows Mark Dennis to commit horrific fouls throughout the game without punishment before Villa have two players sent off for lesser offences and two legitimate goals chalked off.

On his 🕒 15th appearance, centre back Martin Keown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is 🟥 sent off for the first time in his Villa career.

Right Back Gary Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is 🟥 sent off for the second time in 🕒 5 appearances having not been sent off in his first 🕒 273 games in a Villa shirt.

With Villa, now on a reported £8,000 per player bonus to avoid relegation, and with a 🟩 single win in seventeen first division matches secure their 🟩 biggest win of the season over 14th placed West Ham.

Despite the 🟩 win, Villa remain 21st in the table, but with a reduced gap to safety of 6 points with three to play.

Midfielder Warren Aspinall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores a brace for his ⚽ first goals in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 9th appearance.

Goalkeeper Kevin Poole 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 keeps his first ⛔ clean sheet in 🕒 12 games and 8th overall having kept 7 in his first 🕒 appearances.

Right Back Gary Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 300th appearance in a Villa shirt (295 Starts).

Villa lose for the twentieth time this season as Villa fall to 22nd and bottom of the table six points from safety as Manchester City gain a goalless draw at Champions elect Everton and will be relegated if Leicester record a home win over Coventry on Monday as Villa face Wednesday.

Billy McNeill's Villa lose for the third time in four games and now have fourteen wins in their last sixty seven League games losing thirty two. As a result Villa fall back to the bottom of the table, six points off safety and four points off the relegation play off place with two games to play and six points available. 

Mathematically it is still possible for Villa to survive but they will need two high scoring wins and their rivals Leicester and Oxford to lose their remaining matches.

Billy McNeill's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Villa 🟥 lose for the fourth time in 🕒 five games and now have 🟩 fourteen wins in their last 🕒 sixty eight League games 🟥 losing thirty three. 

Villa remain bottom of the table, nine points off safety and five points off the relegation play off place with one game to play and three points available. 

With relegation confirmed, Billy McNeill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 leaves having 🟩 won just three in 🕒 thirty one games and 🟥 losing seventeen. 

Meanwhile, the indefensible and utterly culpable Herbert Douglas Ellis, who had led Villa from the Champions of Europe to the second tier in just five seasons, decides now was the right point to scream: "It's time for action." 

As part of his self preservation strategy, Ellis gags the hapless Billy McNeill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 but nothing can disguise Ellis' continued folly, 

Villa would play in the second tier in 1987-88 and would do so with a new manager and without their better players.

League and European Cup winning right back Gary Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 26 makes his 302nd and final appearance in a Villa shirt (297 Starts) before moving on to Leeds United in July 1987 for a fee of £250,000. Williams left with a record of 🟩 W114 🟨 D77 🟥 L11, ⚽ 2 Goals, 🔥 13 Assists and 🟥 2 Red Cards.

Centre back Paul Elliott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 23 makes his 69th and final appearance for in a Villa shirt aged just 23 before moving on to Pisa in July 1987 for a fee of £400,000. Villa had signed Elliott just 18 months earlier for the same fee from Luton Town. Elliott left with a record of 🟩 W16 🟨 D22 🟥 L31, and ⚽ 7 Goals.

Goalkeeper Kevin Poole 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 23 makes his 32nd and final appearance in a Villa shirt before moving on to Middlesbrough in August 1987 for a fee of £50,000. Poole left with a record of 🟩 W13 🟨 D4 🟥 L15, 🥅 48 Goals Conceded at 1.50 per game and ⛔ 8 Clean Sheets (25%).