Villa concede a late goal for the second successive game to fall to an undeserved defeat to Manchester City at Maine Road as Ron Saunders’ is forced to field a team full of youngsters before the hosts luck into a late winner that should not have stood.

Villa now have eight wins, nine draws and eleven defeats in twenty eight League games under Ron Saunders following their return to the top flight.

Centre Back John Overton, 19, makes his Villa debut after joining from schoolboy football in June 1972 and coming through the yourh ranks to  become the 581st player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Gordon Cowans, 17, makes his Villa debut after joining from schoolboy football in July 1974 and coming through the yourh ranks to  become the 582nd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Villa have to settle for a point against relegation threatened Wolves as they have to also contend with very poor officiating who hand a mandate for foul play to the opposition. 

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Villa are held by lowly Burnley despite taking a two goal lead but climb to joint 14th in the table to all but secure their newly regained top flight status for the 1976-77 season.

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