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REVEALED: Villa pals Cleverley and Delph were junior teammates at Bradford

Tom Cleverley is delighted to be reunited with Fabian Delph at Aston Villa.

Cleverley joined Villa last week on-loan from Manchester United.

Cleverley's mum Jackie used to pick Delph up on the other side of town to take the two kids to training at Bradford's academy.

Midfielder Delph moved on to Leeds and Cleverley joined Manchester United before their paths crossed again with England under-21s.

Now Cleverley has joined Villa and finds himself back in the same dressing room as his old mate.

Cleverley said: "It's a nice story. We were only 10 or 11-years-old. We used to live on different sides of town. His mum didn't drive so my mum used to pick him up on the way through.

"It would be nice to think that one day those two little lads could be getting on the same England bus one day."

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