West Ham United vice-chairman Karren Brady has urged Aston Villa midfielder Barry Bannan to heed the lessons of Gazza.

Brady wrote in her diary for The Sun: "At Tottenham, Barry Bannan comes on as a sub for Aston Villa for the first time since his suspension for alleged drinking and driving offences.

"I wonder if he expects Villa to make travelling arrangements for him if he's banned. I hope they don't.

"My rule for players in such trouble - a few over the past 17 years - is rock solid. He makes his own arrangements and if he has to walk to training (unlikely) then that's his problem.

"I had one who asked me to fix up a driver and silently I passed him the card of a taxi company.

"I'd suggest Villa order Bannan to watch the recent Paul Gascoigne interview in which he explains why he betrayed his promise to Manchester United and joined Tottenham, who gave his mum and dad a house.

"And, as word was passed among the Gascoigne family, a sun-bed for his sister. Football kept giving, Gazza kept taking. And taking."