In the spotlight: James Milner

"Jamie Milner is Brazilian," was the chant that rang around St James' Park last season. "We won't sell for twenty million." In the end it took half of that to bring a player back to Villa Park
two years after he should have signed. Better late than never? When you think about it, it's one of the few things the winger hasn't done early.

A matter of weeks after Wayne Rooney became the youngest player to play in the Premier League, Milner was handed his debut by Terry Venables, and beat Rooney's record by fifty-one days. A month
later his goal against Sunderland