It’s been a slow news week. Well, it has if you’re already bored of reading about how Blues fans shouldn’t worry, how players are going to put it right and how McLeish expects an improved performance next week. Yet again, I’ve been forced to take an interest in matters a bit closer to my new
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Thanks to Nat for the excellent – and wordy! – report from the City Ground and apologies for taking two days to post it up. — A game from which before its kick-off Bluenoses would’ve been looking for three points and a handsome scoreline to boot, ended up convulsing into a fraught escapade where we
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I had been promised a match preview by a well known and often well liked member of the Joys & Sorrows forum. So far it hasn’t arrived and as I type this, it’s 5 AM in the UK*. He’d better be up doing it or have a written note from his mother as to why
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As you may or may not have noticed from my writing thus far, I do a lot of thinking in the shower. Which is often bad because I end up just standing there and not doing much cleaning whilst my mind wanders from subject to subject without realising that I’m wasting precious and valuable water.
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As I said in my last blog, I’m going to skip over Queens Park Rangers. We lost to a side that I’ve been telling everyone had been the worst side to visit St Andrew’s this season, we lost to a side with 10 men, we lost to a side that we really should have troubled
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