Graham Turner's Villa fail to score for the seventeenth time this season and make it fourteen wins in forty one League games, whilst losing fifteen. Meanwhile, Gordon Cowans made his final Villa appearance aged 26 before joining Bari for a fee of £500,000. Cowans was the ninth member of the fourteen man League title winning squad that had 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.