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As Town were dropping rapidly down the table Aston Villa's Pat Saward was brought in to stop the slide.

Les Massie & Derek Stokes' 31 league goals helped Town survive the drop by just two points from Portsmouth.

At the time, Town were bottom of Division Two and travelled to Molineux Stadium with virtually no chance of victory expected.

The replay at Leeds Road was the first match to use the newly erected "Denis Law Lights" and saw Town victorious by the score of 2–1 with goals from Stokes and Michael O'Grady.