JACK PRIMED TO WALTZ IT

Grealish can lead Villa a merry dance

- by ALEX HANKIN

BACK Jack Grealish to have his dancing shoes on against flatfooted visitors Aston Villa.

Everton loan star Grealish did us an ‘anytime assist’ favour before the international break, at a sparkly 11-2.

Some bookmakers are seemingly struggling to believe the twinkle-toed prancer could be anything like the player he was when Manchester City laid out £100million for him.

At 30, Grealish should be slowing down, but he's got surprisingly few miles on the clock after drifting into the Etihad margins.

Grealish put in about 1,100 minutes for City last season all told. That's about 12 games’ graft, the season before he did even less.

The phrase ‘Just delighted to be taking part’ is the sort of cliche that marrow-hoofed no-hopers trot out on Strictly - but for Grealish the truth of it looks written through him like a stick of Blackpool rock.

He's got four assists for David Moyes already - he only managed five all told across his last two City campaigns.

The days of finding 11-2 might be over, but the 4-1 ‘Grealish OVER 0.5 assists’ (3pm) should have us tangoing all the way to Boylesports this morning. Actually, better make that a quickstep, because it can’t last.