It was the kind of heart and soul derby that Graham Taylor would have loved. Even as Wolverhampton Wanderers and Aston Villa, two of his clubs, tore and tugged at each other, the Midlands heartlands joined together to produce a suitably rumbustious encounter to pay tribute to their former manager.
Joe Mason’s goal threatened, the first by a Wolves striker since Paul Lambert, the former Villa manager, took charge at Molineux in November, threatened to win the game for the home side as the game went into the final stages. But this was as much about remembering Taylor as anything.