Villa’s new signing has arrived! (…and he’s crippled)

Stewart Downing was at Aston Villa's training ground to discuss his £12 million move from relegated Middlesbrough and unlike most footballers worth £12 million, he arrived on crutches. The England international is recovering from surgery on his fractured foot and won't be able to make his debut until October, but Martin O'Neill has apparently decided to throw caution and cash to the wind and sign him now instead of next January as previously believed.