Villa’s game at Field Mill started with John Dunn knocking out Fred Turnbull and ended with their slim promotion hopes finally buried. Joint 4th, behind Bristol Rovers, Halifax, Preston and Fulham and six points off the promotion places, it’s another season in the third tier for Vic Crowe’s side.

Vic Crowe's Villa's terrible run of form since their League Cup final appearance continues having won once in thirteen games, losing four and drawing eight. As a result Villa have a record of eighteen wins, fifteen draws and eleven defeats in forty four division three games so far this season and promotion back to the second tier is now mathematically impossible.