Villa however tasted blood when Yorke's close range shot was wrongly ruled out for off-side and within 40 seconds they were gorging themselves

Villa, however, tasted blood when Yorke's close range shot was wrongly ruled out for off-side, and within 40 seconds they were gorging themselves.Following a goal-kick by Neil Sullivan, Kenny Cunningham's back-pass was badly under-hit. Yorke, who might have been excused had he been sulking about the injustice of the decision, had already anticipated the mistake. For just outside the 18-yard area he stroked the ball through the legs of the advancing keeper.Within four minutes further errors enabled Villa to double their lead. Milosevic, pouncing on Chris Perry's miscued back-header, should still have been intercepted by Dean Blackwell. The latter missed the ball and also failed in his attempt to scythe down the Serb, who stabbed in his third goal of the season.Steve Staunton, whose range of passing from the centre of defence would put many a playmaker to shame, made the third goal just after the hour. His cross, cunningly curled away from goal, was met by Milosevic, whose shot was parried by Sullivan. Ian Taylor dived headlong to double his tally for the campaign.Things went from bad to worse for Wimbledon, whose strategy clearly did not allow for having to come from behind.

With Yorke and Milosevic dragging their inexperienced defenders all over the place, Andy Townsend took a scalpel to the heart of their rearguard with 15 minutes remaining. Milosevic took over his run, like a sprinter in a relay, and saw his shot drift behind Sullivan's grasp after deflecting off Blackwell.Villa were saving the best for last. Taylor played the penultimate pass in a fine build-up by finding the substitute, Sasa Curcic, wide on the right. As his cross arrowed in, hard and low to the near post, Yorke stole ahead of Blackwell to flick the ball deftly past Sullivan and complete Wimbledon's worst defeat since going down 6-1 at Newcastle 14 months ago.Little, who described Villa as "a pretty good team", felt that Milosevic's improvement since his on-off transfer had made all the difference.

Whether the Yugoslav international can maintain this level of support for Yorke remains to be seen.Kinnear regarded the result as a blip, or a "blimp" as he put it, adding defiantly: "If I'd told people that by Christmas Wimbledon could have led the table with Liverpool, they'd have carried me off to the nut house."People will say what a great side Villa are, yet they're a point behind us. One defeat in 20 games can't be bad."Goals: Yorke (38) 1-0; Milosevic (42) 2-0; Taylor (61) 3-0; Blackwell og (75) 4-0; Yorke (86) 5-0.Aston Villa (3-5-2): Bosnich; Ehiogu, Staunton (Tiler, 74), Scimeca; Nelson, Draper (Curcic, 80), Taylor, Townsend, Wright; Yorke, Milosevic. Substitutes not used: Joachim, Johnson, Rachel (gk).Wimbledon (4-4-2): Sullivan; Cunningham (Holdsworth, 67), Perry (McAllister, 84), Blackwell, Kimble; Ardley, Earle, Jones, Leonhardsen; Ekoku, Gayle. Substitutes not used: Harford, Fear, Murphy (gk).Referee: S Dunn (Bristol).Bookings: Villa Curcic. Wimbledon Kimble.Man of the match: Yorke.Attendance: 28,875..

The Sacchi magic is not working at Milan - yet. The former Italian national coach, who returned to San Siro earlier this month, sat and suffered as his side slumped to a 1-0 home defeat to Parma yesterday. The champions' fifth defeat of the season leaves them in seventh place in the table. That was not all: Alessandro Costacurta was sent off for the second time in two games, Paolo Maldini sustained a fractured cheekbone from a flying elbow, and George Weah limped off with a twisted ankle that is expected to keep him out for a month. With second-placed Vicenza falling to two Vincenzo Montella goals at Sampdoria and Internazionale held 1-1 at bottom-of-the-table Reggiana, the Serie A leaders, Juventus, stretched their advantage to six points despite being held 1-1 at Piacenza.The European champions, who had the midfielder Alessio Tacchinardi sent off, led through an own goal from Settimio Lucci until five minutes from the end, when Daniele Delli Carri's equaliser halted their run of four successive league wins.