Old boy news

His Leicester side may have secured their play-off place on Saturday, but today wasn't a good day for Nobby Solano, arrested in Gosforth in the early hours of the morning on suspicion of rape.

Also enduring a recent (albeit much less serious) brush with the law was our former custodian Shay Given, one of several Man City players fined for having tinted car windows that were too dark. To add injury to insult, he dislocated his shoulder at Arsenal and has been ruled out for City's crucial run-in.

In happier news, Villa's James Milner - scorer of a disputed winner in Sunday's Second City derby from the penalty spot - has been named as the PFA's Young Player of the Year. Hard to believe he's still only 24 - but not that he's surely a shoo-in for a place in Fabio Capello's World Cup squad. Not least for scoring goals like this against the Mackems...