Aston Villa boss Carla Ward said players and coaches being in relationships was "crossing that line" and should be a sackable offence.

Asked if a player-coach relationship should become a sackable offence, Ward said: "Yeah, 100%."

His sackable offences, he recalled, included telling a Coronation Street actor he couldn't come in wearing white jeans; and impersonating a council employee to tell a ticket holder who had been rude to a colleague that their water was going to be cut off.

It was worse than a bad day at the office - edging a split decision against a debutant may well be a sackable offence.

He added it looked like a "clear-cut sackable offence".