Villa bounce back from a chastening January as they secure a second win in three first division one games under Graham Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

Villa climb to 11th in the table.

Centre forward Ian Ormondroyd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 24 makes his debut in a Villa shirt after joining from Bradford City for £650,000 to become the 658th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Winger Nigel Callaghan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 26 makes a goalscoring debut in a Villa shirt following his move from Derby County for a fee of £650,000 to become the 659th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Midfielder David Platt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽ scores to contribute his 20th goal involvement on his 🕒 43rd appearance in a Villa shirt to make it 🟩 W17 🟨 D10 🟥 L16, ⚽ 17 Goals and 🔥3 Assists at a rate of one goal involvement for evey 2.15 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Full back Kevin Gage 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🔥 assists Nigel Callaghan’s ⚽ debut goal to contribute his 20th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 82nd appearance (81 Starts).

Villa are beaten by the hated and hateful Wimbledon for the third consecutive time as they fall back to 12th in the table but there is reckoning coming for the Dons thuggish behaviour with the authorities no longer willing to turn their blind eyes to a an over-hyped fairytale. 

Graham Taylor's Villa lose at Wimbledon to make it three League defeats in five.

Ian Ormondroyd scores his first goal in a Villa shirt on his 3rd apprarance to make it W1 D1 L1 so far in his Villa career.

Villa lose at home to 17th placed Charlton as Nigel Callaghan is given the bird in just his fourth game for the club and Nigel Spink bears the brunt for a sloppy concession.

Graham Taylor's Villa lose at home to Charlton to make it four League defeats in six and one win.

Villa crash at White Hart Lane to leave them 13th in the table and without a league win in four under an increasingly exasperated Graham Taylor.

Graham Taylor's Villa lose for the fifth time in seven games, winning one

Villa secure a goalless draw with Manchester United at Villa Park as Alan McInally 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 impresses but Ian Ormondroyd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 becomes the latest player to feel the wrath of a frustrated Villa Park crowd.

Graham Taylor's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa make it five League games without a win as they draw with sixth placed Manchester United, failing to score for the second consecutive game.

Midfielder Stuart Gray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 50th appearance in a Villa shirt (48 Starts) and makes it 🟩 W20 🟨 D14 🟥 L16, ⚽ 6 Goals and 🔥 0 Assists so far in his Villa career.

Villa suffer a chastening defeat to fellow promotees Millwall who in stark contrast to Villa sit third in the table in their first season back in the top flight. 

Villa sit twelfth having failed to score in three and gained two points from a possible eighteen,

Graham Taylor's Villa fail to score for the third successive game and have now lost six of their last eight League games.

Villa's horrendous run continues as they fail to score for the fourth successive match and lose to bottom side West Ham as they drop to 14th in the first division table.

Graham Taylor's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa fail to score for the fourth successive game and have now lost seven of their last nine League games. 

As a result they sit 14th in the table, one point off the drop zone in a tight Division One table.

Centre back Martin Keown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 125th appearance in a Villa shirt (122 Starts).

Midfielder David Platt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 50th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it 🟩 W17 🟨 D12 🟥 L21, ⚽ 17 Goals and 🔥3 Assists at a rate of one goal involvement for evey 2.50 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Graham Taylor's Villa fail to score for the fifth successive game and have now lost eight of their last ten League games. As a result they fall to 15th in the table.

Villa take 2' to end their five game goal drought and go on to win for the first time in nine first division games to climb back to 14th in the table.

Graham Taylor's Villa score for the first time in six games and win for the first time in nine and increase the gap to their opponents, and the relegation places, to four points in a tight Division One table.

Villa make it consecutive League victories for the first time since October as they climb back to 13th in the first division table with five to play and a seven point gap to the relegation places.

Graham Taylor's Villa win for the second successive League game but only the second time in ten games. As a result they climb to 13th in the table, and open a gap of four points to the drop zone in a tight Division One table.

Villa recover from going two down in 46 seconds at the start of the second half to earn a draw to extend their unbeaten League run to three and seven points as they remain 13th in the table, six points clear of relegation with four to play.

Graham Taylor's Villa make it three games unbeaten as Alan McInally scores his twenty second of the season but first since January. As a result Villa sit 13th in the table, three points off the drop zone in a tight Division One table.

Villa need an equaliser from Stuart Gray with just 35 seconds left on the clock to secure a draw at home to Boro after former 'keeper Kevin Poole almost keeps them out. 

Villa extend their unbeaten League run to four to remain 13th and on 39 points in the table but now are only three points clear of the relegation places with three games left to play.

Graham Taylor's Villa lose for the first time in five.

One down after 49 seconds Villa never recover and are lucky to come away with a narrow scoreline after a chastening defeat in front of their lowest crowd of the season. 

Villa fall to 14th in the table on 39 points, 3 clear of the relegation places with two games left to play, 

Villa 🟥 lose successive games to leave them 14th in the table but still on 39 points and still only three clear of the relegation places with one to play. 

With a superior goal difference Villa cannot realistically go down as they face a Coventry side who have never won at Villa Park. But technically, in a very tight First Division, any one of five clubs - including Villa - could be relegated on the final day of the season. 

Graham Taylor's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa lose despite David Platt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 opening the scoring at the Baseball Ground and 

Defender Darry Duffy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 18 makes his 🕒 sole appearance for Villa after joining from school football in March 1985 to become the 661st player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Duffy would move on to Moor Green in February 1993. 

Midfielder Mark Lillis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 29 makes his 🕒 38th & final appearance in a Villa shirt before moving on to Scunthorpe United 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in September 1989 for a fee of £40,000. Lillis played for Villa in 1987-88 and 1988-89 following his £130,000 move from Derby 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and left with a record of 🟩 W8 🟨 D7 🟥 L11, ⚽ 4 Goals and 🔥 2 Assists.

Midfielder David Hunt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 30 makes his 🕒 15th & final appearance in a Villa shirt before moving on to Mansfield in June 1988. Hunt played for Villa in 1987-88 and 1988-89 following his move from Notts County and left with a record of 🟩 W6 🟨 D5 🟥 L4, ⚽ 0 Goals and 🔥 0 Assists.

Villa secure a final day draw against a Coventry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 side who have still never won at Villa Park but it is not enough to stop Villa finishing worst of the rest as they tumble to seventeenth in the table, one place and one point above the relegation zone.

Graham Taylor's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa draw their final game of the season to finish the season 17th in the table, one point clear of the final relegation place. 

Villa’s first season in the top flight after one year in the second tier saw Graham Taylor’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 side consistently in mid-table for much of the season but such was the tight nature of the League that they were rarely more than a defeat away from falling into the drop zone. 

Conversely they were also rarely more than a win away from securing safety and had Alan McInally’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 form from the first half of the season continued, would in all likelihood have finished far higher up the table. 

As it was McInally 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 scored just once after January, having scored twenty one in the first five months of the season. 

Sadly Villa wouldn’t get to see McInally 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in a much improved squad for the 1989-90 season as this game proved to be his 🕒 71st & final appearance in a Villa shirt (62 Starts) before moving on to to Bayern Munich in July 1989 for a fee of £1,100,000. McInally 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 had played for Villa in 1987-88 and 1988-89 after his arrival from Celtic for £225,000 in July 1987 and left with a record of 🟩 W29 🟨 D20  🟥 L22, ⚽ 28 Goals, 🔥 14 Assists, 🟨 5 Bookings and 🟥 1 Red Card at a goal involvement rate of one for every 1.69 games he had played across his Villa career.

Also moving on as part of Graham Taylor’s squad overhaul was long time defender Allan Evans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 who made his final Villa appearance aged 32 before moving on to Leicester City in August 1989. Evans was the last of the League and European Cup winning team to leave Villa. Evans played for Villa between 1977-78 and 1988-89 making 466 appearances and scoring 60 goals. 

A far cry from Evans, centre back Martin Keown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 22 makes his 🕒 132nd & final appearance in a Villa shirt (129 Starts) before moving on to Everton in July 1989 for a fee of £750,000. Keown had played for Villa between 1986-87 and 1988-89 following his arrival from Arsenal for £200,000 in June 1986 and left with a record of 🟩 W46 🟨 D36 🟥 L50, ⚽ 3 Goals, 🔥 7 Assists, 🟨 12 Bookings and 🟥 2 Red Cards.

Central defender Steve Sims 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 31 makes his 🕒 47th & final appearance in a Villa Shirt before moving on to Burton Albion in October 1990. Sims played for Villa in 1987-88 and 1988-89 following his move from Watford and left with a record of 🟩 W20 🟨 D15 🟥 L12, ⚽ 0 Goals and 🔥 0 Assists.

Midfielder David Platt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ 20th goal in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 58th appearance to make it 🟩 W19 🟨 D15 🟥 L24, ⚽ 20 Goals and 🔥4 Assists at a rate of a goal evey 2.90 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Villa open the season with a draw at lively Forest as Graham Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 looks to improve on 1988-89's 17th place finish. 

But even without a victory it is a very special day in the history of Aston Villa Football Club as unarguably the best player to ever don the claret and blue makes his debut.

Paul McGrath 🇮🇪 29 makes his debut in a Villa shirt after joining from Manchester United 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in July 1989 for a fee of £425,000 to become the 663rd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Centre back Kent Nielsen 🇩🇰 27 makes his debut in a Villa shirt after joining from from Bröndby IF 🇩🇰 in July 1989 for a fee of £500,000 to become the 662nd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Forward Adrian Heath 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 28 makes his Villa debut after moving from RCD Espanyol 🇪🇸 in July 1989 for a fee of £360,000 to become the 664th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Gordon Cowans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 400th appearance in a Villa shirt (383 Starts) to make it 🟩 W178 🟨 D95 🟥 L127, ⚽ 54 Goals and 🔥 64 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.39 games he has played so far in his Villa career. 

Derek Mountfield makes his first appearance in 5 months and contributes his 5th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 34th appearance (32 Starts) to make it 🟩 W11 🟨 D7 🟥 L16, ⚽ 4 Goals and 🔥 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.

Meanwhile off the pitch Nottinghamshire Police lock 500 innocent Villa fans in a cage at the railway station for no apparent reason and not an apology in sight.

Graham Taylor’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Villa draw for the second consecutive game at the start of the campaign having had to survive the usual Liverpool refereeing shenanigans.

Centre Back Andy Comyn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his debut in a Villa shirt aged 21 after moving from Alvechurch for £34,000 earlier this month to become the 665th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Midfielder Paul Birch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 175th start in a Villa shirt (190 Appearances).`

Nigel Spink saves a Paul Rideout spot kick after just 5' before Southampton open a two goal lead in the second half to hand Villa their first defeat of the season.

Villa now have no win in their first four Division One games of the season under Graham Taylor.

Centre forward Ian Ormondroyd’s goalless streak extends to 10 games to make it 13 Appearances, 9 Starts, W1 D4 L8 and 1 Goal so far in his Villa career.

Ian Olney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 hits a ⚽ brace to make it three goals in three games as Villa 🟩 win their first game of the season under Graham Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

Paul McGrath 🇮🇪 secures his first win in a Villa shirt at the fifth attempt following 1 defeat and 3 draws so far in 1989-90.

Centre forward Ian Olney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ 5th goal in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 23rd appearance (10 Starts) to make it 🟩 W6 🟨 D8 🟥 L9 and ⚽ 6 Goals at a Goal per Game rate of one for every 3.29 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Full back Kevin Gage 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 first appearance since March after 6 months out with injury.

Dalian Atkinson strikes for Wednesday and Villa lose for the second time in three games as Graham Taylor's side sit 13th in the first division table.

Graham Taylor’s Villa lose to two Villa legends - Dalian and Ron Atkinson - and now have two defeats in the opening six Division One matches and just a single win.

Villa beat Second Division Wolves in the first leg of the League Cup second round at Villa Park.

Midfielder Stuart Gray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 scores his ⚽ 10th goal in a Villa shirt on his 67th appearance (65 Starts) to make it 🟩 W24 🟨 D20 🟥 L23, ⚽ 10 Goals and 🔥 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.

Ian Olney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (12 Starts) to make it 🟩 W7 🟨 D8 🟥 L10, ⚽ 6 goals & 🔥 0 Assists  at a goal per game rate of one for every 4.17 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Chris Price 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 conttributes his 🔥 second assist in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 50th appearance to make it 🟩 W17 🟨 D15 🟥 L18, ⚽ 0 Goals & 🔥 2 Assists so far in his Villa career.

Villa continue their difficult start to the season as they lose for the third time in seven games having won once and fall into the relegation places in the early table.

Villa lose to a Trevor Francis inspired QPR in a poor performance. 

Nevertheless the condemnation from the local rag feels misplaced for a recently promoted team in their second season under one of the most talented managers around attempting to rebuild the club and with a raft of new players.

Ian Olney contributes his first assist in a Villa shirt on his 26th appearance (13 Starts) to make it W7 D8 L11 and 6 goals at a goal involvement per game rate of one for every 3.71 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Villa are beaten by second tier West Ham for the second successive season at Upton Park.

Graham Taylor’s Villa are beaten by Second Division side West Ham in the League Cup third round.

Villa lose in Division One for the first time in six games as they fall back to 5th place in the table under Graham Taylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

Villa lose to a vibrant Norwich side at Carrow Road as the Birmingham Evening Mail plays the age old card of building them up to knock 'em down.

The Evening Mail, champions of every negative thought about Villa and eager to drain any semblance of optimism surrounding the club were at it again. Like wild animals to fresh meat, a defeat away to a top 6 rival was too juicy to ignore. How could they? This was their bread and butter with a slice of sizzling steal. 

After having called Villa’s relegation as early as the fourth game of the season, then damning Taylor’s side with the faintest of praise - whilst inflating the credentials of just about every opposition team - a defeat in the League Cup in the previous game was just too salivating. 

The defeat to West Ham was not “unlucky” but “embarrassing”. If that was an over-reaction and mis-reading of a cold night in East London, just days needed to be waited for them to fire up another damning indictment on B6’s pretensions. 

No longer tipping Villa for relegation they were certainly “still not fooled” by Villa’s achievements in 1989-90 and now could proudly confine a title challenge to the waste bin besides their cigarette smoke infested desks. 

One defeat, a first in six League games that had seen Villa climb to fourth, was enough to set the poison pen letters to B6 ablaze once again. 

We were told Villa’s “strengths were exaggerated” and “weaknesses” ignored. 

If that wasn’t enough we were reliably informed Villa didn’t score enough. Despite having failed to score in the League for the first time in seven games and only the second time this season and no matter that in the last six League games Villa had scored twelve goals. No matter that Villa had won five of those six games. 

Worse was to come.. the goals conceded “were a joke”. Was that irony? Did they mean they were literally laughably unfortunate? or were they serious when they claimed Villa’s internationals were more bothered about playing Malta and Romania than winning the League? 

Yet the contradictions abounded with their own goal descriptions of “dreadfully unlucky” and “going into the net off the centre-half’s backside” simply did not chime with all the vitriol that followed. 

Was it wilful contradiction or just an inability to ever say anything positive about the club they were paid to follow? Just what were these self appointed ‘Judges’ watching? What were they thinking? Why report on a club when any potential objectivity, or even support, or - whisper it quietly - partisan tribalism, as displayed by the Liverpool Echo or Manchester Evening News, was total anathema to them? 

Doubtless in time they came to love the club in their strange way. Doubtless they soon told us how they believed in Villa all along and had played an instrumental ‘tough love’ role in driving them to a top two berth once again. 

But supporters? Never. The sad fact is it didn’t start in November 1989 and neither did it end. They had form through good times and bad. Always unhelpful, always prompting a new ‘crisis’. 

This, not the worst example or the most vicious, was certainly the most detached from reality given what supporters had witnessed over the last three months under Graham Taylor. 

Promoted the previous season to successfully fight for survival, just 12 months later the same team were troubling the top 6 of the League but even then we couldn’t count on the Evening Mail’s support and encouragement. Shameful.

Midfielder David Platt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 75th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it 🟩 W26 🟨 D20 🟥 L29, ⚽ 29 Goals and 🔥 7 Assists at a rate of one goal involvement for evey 2.08 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Centre forward Ian Ormondroyd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 extends his goalless streak to 🕒 18 games to make it 🕒 21 Appearances and ⚽ 1 Goal so far in his Villa career.

Centre back Derek Mountfield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 50th appearance in a Villa shirt (48 Starts) to make it 🟩 W18 🟨 D11 🟥 L21, ⚽ 6 Goals and 🔥 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.

Winger Nigel Callaghan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (22 Starts) to make it 🟩 W5 🟨 D7 🟥 L13, ⚽ 1 Goals and 🔥 4 Assist so far in his underwhelming Villa career.

Graham Taylor’s Villa make it seventeen first division victories in twenty two games to remain top of the first division table with nine games left to play.eleven points ahead of third placed Arsenal. 

Centre forward Tony Cascarino 🇮🇪 makes his debut aged 27 after moving from Millwall earlier this month for a club record fee of £1,500,000 to become the 667th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Nigel Callaghan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his first appearance since November 1989 as he is handed a start but is soon replaced by goalscorer Ian Ormondroyd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 as Villa win at the Baseball Ground.

Villa extend their run to one defeat in 8 under Jozef Vengloš 🇨🇿 but can only draw at home with Wimbledon in the FA Cup third round.

Villa score their first ever Villa Park goal against Wimbledon but Jozef Vengloš 🇨🇿 sees enough and hooks a brace of players in despair at an uncharacteristically poor performance.

Gordon Cowans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 475th appearance in a Villa shirt (458 Starts) to make it 🟩 W216 🟨 D113 🟥 L146, ⚽ 58 Goals and 🔥 85 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.32 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Midfielder Stuart Gray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 125th appearance in a Villa shirt (118 Starts) and makes it 🟩 W50 🟨 D35 🟥 L40, ⚽ 15 Goals and 🔥 2 Assists so far in his Villa career.

Dwight Yorke 🇹🇹 makes his 🕒 10th appearance in a Villa shirt (7 Starts) to make it 🟩 W2 🟨 D4 🟥 L4 ⚽ 0 Goals and 🔥 1 assist so far in his Villa career.

Ian Ormondroyd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 50th start in a Villa shirt (65 Appearances) to make it 🟩 W29 🟨 D14 🟥 L22, ⚽ 9 Goals and 🔥 6 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 4.33 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Nigel Callaghan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his first appearance since March 1990.

Villa and Jozef Vengloš lose a game they dominated in the final minute of extra time to a deflected Wimbledon strike to dump them out of the Cup and consign them to just their seventh defeat in twenty seven games.

Jozef Vengloš' Villa lose to Wimbledon in the FA Cup to make it two defeats and one win in their last five matches.

Villa record their sixth consecutive home draw against Liverpool as Jozef Vengloš' team "share a match of outstanding quality" to leave them with twelve wins and just seven defeats in twenty eight games..

Jozef Vengloš' Villa bounce back from their FA Cup loss to hold 2nd place Liverpool to a draw at Villa Park however have now failed to score for the tenth time in nineteen games.

Villa suffer their eighth defeat in 29 games under Jozef Vengloš. 

Villa lose in the League Cup quarter final at Elland Road to a side who only recorded a resounding scoreline in the final 10 minutes as Villa chased the game. 

That however did not stop a massive over reaction from the Birmingham Evening Mail whose barely concealed vendetta against the dignified Czech boss seemed to escalate. Leeds would go on to win the League title the following season.

Paul McGrath makes his 75th appearance in a Villa shirt and makes it W34 D17 L24, 1 Goal, 2 Assists and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

• Ian Ormondroyd scores his 10th goal in a Villa shirt on his 66th appearance (50 Starts) to make it W29 D14 L23, 10 Goals and 6 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 4.13 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Villa bounce back from their late defeat to Coventry to secure their first win in 6 and second in their last 11 as David Platt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 misses his first game of the season. 

Meanwhile the Evening Mail still aren't happy because Jozef Vengloš' 🇨🇿 🟩 13th win in 31 games (9 defeats) wasn't exciting enough despite his side sitting 13th in the table.

Winger Nigel Callaghan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, 26, makes his 🕒 31st and final appearance in a Villa shirt (27 Starts) two years after Villa paid Derby County £650,000 for his services. In total Callaghan proved to be one of the least successful signings in Villa’s history leaving with a record of 🟩 W7 🟨 D9 🟥 L15, ⚽ 1 Goals and 🔥 4 Assist across his underwhelming Villa career.

Chris Price 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 125th appearance in a Villa shirt (123 Starts) to make it 🟩 W54 🟨 D31 🟥 L40, ⚽ 2 Goals and 🔥 4 Assists so far in his Villa career.