Ace banned for 100mph sprint

ASTON Villa ace Gabriel Agbonlahor has been banned from driving after he was caught doing almost 100mph in a 50mph zone.

Agbonlahor, 20, was nabbed shortly after midnight.

Villa’s Young Player of the Year had been out with friends in Birmingham, he told Coventry magistrates.

He said he was rushing to see his girlfriend, who had abdominal pains, when cops spotted him speeding on Birmingham’s Aston Expressway.

The teetotaller had a clean licence and had been driving for two years, his lawyers said.

Birmingham-born Agbonlahor, who is an England under-21 winger, pleaded guilty and was banned for four months and fined £1,500.