Fantasy Villa Team No. 7: Players with their own songs

We may be courting controversy here.

How can we possibly pick a fantasy team based on players with their own songs and not include Spinksy, Birchy and Alan McInally?

How can we pick ANY Villa team with Barry Bannan in it?

Well, it's our team, so we can. Nah, nah-nah-nah, nah! Pick your own if you don't like it.

In goal, we just had to plump for "The Aussie Bozzie". Who doesn't miss singing that?

We've cheated at full back by having two right backs. Including "he's got no hair but we don't care" Chrissy Chrissy Price was a must, while we consider "He's hard, he's game, we can't pronounce his name, Dariusz, Dariusz" to be a little known classic.

God is not even up for debate, while the much loved Cuellar had two songs that would have qualified, though some of the Holte Enders we've seen singing "I'd let you shag my wife" looked as if they'd never even had a girlfriend. Ho-hum.

It's a pity we can only sing "Who needs Barry when we've got Barry Bannan" ironically these days, because it's a cracker, Ashley Young "is fuckin' dynamite" is up there with the very best and for sheer simplicity, "Sid, Sid, Sid, Sid" earns it's place in our line up.

"Deano scores and he wants some more" was a must as was "he's bigger than me and you" but pride of place goes to "Six Foot Two, Eyes of Blue, Sammy Morgan's after you, la la la, la la la, la laaaaaaaa!!!!!!"

Fantasy Villa Team No. 5: Eng-ger-lund

Fairly simple criteria for this one, our basic premise was to pick a team largely based on how many England caps our heroes managed to pick up while actually being on Aston Villa's books.

Pizza flogging, penalty missing Gareth Southgate easily comes top of the pile cap wise so despite him eventually buggering off to Middlesbrough "to win things" we're making him captain.

Special Mentions should go to Emile Heskey (12 caps while with Villa), who may well have made our team had we not already decided to shove Ashley Young (15 caps while with Villa) in the forward line rather than wide, while Steve Hodge qualified as of right ahead of Gordan Cowans, but we love Sid and "We Hate Hodge" is still one of our favourite ever chants.

We had heard of Villa legends Billy Walker and Charlie Athersmith but we'll admit we had to Google Sam Hardy and Jimmy Crabtree. If you want to know more, we suggest you do the same. Oddly we could find no footage of the quartet on You Tube...Charlie was a right winger, not a right back but there seems to be a distinct lack of right backs at the top end of the list and hey, him and Milner can always interchange and we can't put John Gidman in every team.

Fantasy Villa Team No.1: The PFA Team of the Year criteria

In the first of an occasional series, we pick fantasy Villa teams using players from times gone by.

This first one virtually picks itself as our criteria was that players had to have featured in a PFA Team of the Year. We were genuinely struggling to get a full team here, hence the five at the back, but as both John Gidman and Alan Wright were quite happy bombing forward it might sort of work.

Hard done by here is right back Kenny Swain who doesn't make our team despite that the fact he appeared in PFA Teams twice. He was trumped by John Gidman who appeared an impressive three times.

The team also boasts two Andy Grays.