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14th Aug 2015

Pic: Manchester United and Aston Villa star in this papers awful miscalculation of date

Time to check the abacus

Paul Moore

Time to check the abacus.

Aston Villa host Manchester United at Villa Park tonight as Tim Sherwood’s men will be looking to build on their opening day win against Bournemouth.

Louis Van Gaal’s side will be tough opponents though, especially considering their impressive league record at Villa Park over the years.

This being said, United fans will definitely remember the last time that Villa beat them in Birmingham in the league, the famous 3-1 hammering on the opening day of the 1995/96 season.

Alan Hansen famously remarked that you can’t win anything with kids after that result and it seems that the Daily Mail have made a mathematical mistake that not even a schoolkid would make.

It has since been amended here but this is what it originally looked like.