Joe Newell names extra Hibs motivator to pull off Aston Villa shock as Birmingham daft star welcomes 'special moment'

Birmingham-daft Joe Newell has more reason than anyone at Hibs to hope Aston Villa are given the Brum’s rush in Leith this evening. Not only is the Easter Road fans’ favourite a born and bred Bluenose of the Brummy variety - but he's having to share his home with three diehard VILLANS after the game.

Newell will troop back to his Edinburgh gaff after the Battle of Britain blockbuster knowing he’ll get it in the neck win, lose or draw from his fiancee Hannah, as well as his best mate Liam who’s travelling up for the battle of Britain with his dad.

All three are huge Villa fans. But the flak, should Hibs pull of a shock, will be worth it after a decade of woe for his boyhood heroes. However, even if Hibs can manage to dump Unai Emery’s Premier League giants in the Conference League play-off Newell will have to bite his tongue - for fear of a picture of him in a Villa strip as a kid surfacing at his wedding later this year.

Not that anything can dampen his excitement for the biggest game of the 30-year-old’s life. Newell couldn’t sound more Brum if you swapped his voicebox with Ozzy Osbourne’s. And he’s desperate to leave Villa facing the music this evening.

He said: “I’d absolutely love it if we beat them! There’s one dodgy picture of me in a Villa top when I was four. My best mate who is my best man later this year is a Villa diehard and said it’s going to surface if anything happens over the next two weeks!

“My missus is Villa, my dad is Blues, my brother Villa. It’s all over the place. But Liam has been my best mate since kids, he’s a Villa season ticket holder and sits with his dad in the Holt End.

“It will be a special moment for him watching me go out there against his team. Especially next week at Villa Park. He is