The word was that two men, not one, would be entering retirement at Vicarage Road and if young Martin Patching does quit the Football League now because of chronic physical damage there is no doubt that his last experience of it will furnish more pleasant memories than Bob Paisley took away from the final hour and a half of the most successful career any British club manager has ever known.

English Division One (old)			Table »
Aston Villa	2-1	Arsenal
Coventry City	2-4	West Ham United
Everton	1-1	Ipswich Town
Manchester City	0-1	Luton Town
Norwich City	2-1	Brighton and Hove A
Notts County	3-2	Manchester United
Southampton	0-1	Birmingham City
Sunderland	1-1	West Bromwich Albion
Swansea City	0-3	Nottingham Forest
Tottenham Hotspur	4-1	Stoke City
Watford	2-1	Liverpool