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February 04, 2018

ASTON Villa rolled back theyears as they continued theirstorming run towards a return to the Premier League.

- John Wragg

Villans' Good Form Taylor - Made

Bottom club Burton rocked them with a fighting performance but couldn’t stop Villa winning their sixth successive league game their best run of form for 28 years.

Not since Graham Taylor took Villa to second place in the old First Division in 1990 before going off to the England job have they chalked up the wins like this.

There have been some dark days since.

Instead of beating Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea, as they did from Boxing Day 1989 until late February 1990, it’s Barnsley, Bristol City and Burton they are turning over in this run.

Villa remain a point outside of the automatic promotion places, with the big local derby with Birmingham City to come next Sunday, and assistant manager Colin Calderwood says they will have to keep the run going.

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