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Mon 02 Feb 2010Villa-in of the week?
PLANET SOCCER:THAT’D be Aston Villa’s England Under-19 defender Nathan Baker, currently on loan at Lincoln.
As a Villa player he was allocated five tickets for the League Cup final against Manchester United at Wembley later this month. Now, it’s not uncommon for players to, well, discretely flog their tickets to the highest bidder, but Nathan tried to sell his on . . . Facebook. At £200 apiece. “The club is saddened that he has been so foolish,” said a club spokesman, announcing that they had taken the tickets off him.
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