Steve Sidwell is beginning to settle at Aston Villa to such an extent he would like to stay at the club for the rest of his career. The 25-year-old midfielder has started to hit the kind of form that persuaded boss Martin O'Neill to sign him for around £5million from Chelsea during the summer.

"I can see myself finishing my career here, if we carry on progressing," Sidwell told the Birmingham Mail.

"Every year Villa have progressed. It's a short career and at the end I want to have a cabinet full of medals."