IT’S hard to imagine that an athletic little table lamp based on the suspension of a car could threaten the tweedy moral fibre of the post-war BBC.

ASTON VILLA manager Martin O’Neill has admitted he would be content for Gareth Barry to see out the final year of his contract, even if it costs the club a sizeable transfer fee.

AN immortal comment from Michael Caine in The Italian Job has been named the greatest one-liner in cinema history.

Bradford manager Nicky Law has bolstered his side’s bid to avoid relegation to the Nationwide League Second Division by signing former Aston Villa midfielder Michael Standing on a three-and-a-half-year contract.

Aston Villa’s promising midfielder Michael Standing - who joined the club from Brighton at the same time as Gareth Barry - is set to quit the Midlands club.