Aston Villa defender Alan Hutton tapped into his inner Lionel Messi to surprise everyone as Aston Villa ran riot against Birmingham City in the Championship's Midlands derby on Sunday.
Often pundits can be heard saying things like 'if Lionel Messi did that we'd be going on about it for days' but Messi's frequency of doing the ridiculous means we're actually less likely to talk about what the Barca star does on the regular.
When players who rarely show the skill and brilliance that anywhere near matches the Argentina forward that's when we really take notice and wonder how the hell they just did that.
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Step forward Alan Hutton. The former Rangers and Spurs right back isn't exactly known for his ability to score world class goals, mazy runs or his regularity of taking on several players but he combined all three this afternoon.
Playing for Aston Villa against Birmingham City in the Midlands derby on Sunday Hutton put Villa 4-2 up with one of the best goals you're likely to see:
It's fair to say no one would have seen that coming today.
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