I want to start by wishing you all a very Happy New Year and I hope as we start a new year and decade, that things are on the up for you.

2009 was a pretty successful year for Joys and Sorrows, and once again, thank you to everyone who has written an article, written a comment, has read anything on the site and has contributed on the forum.

A special thank you to Andy and Brian at Small Heath Alliance and Singing the Blues respectively, for plugging our articles – thanks guys, and I look forward to catching up with you in February.

Up to December, we were getting around 12,000 page views per month however December was awesome with us getting 26,500! I was really proud of some of the articles that we produced last month, and I’m looking to build on it for this coming year.

If you have any ideas of what we could do as a blog, or would like to write an occasional or regular article for us, please let me know via the contact page.

I have added a list of supporters clubs websites which we’ve focused on here at J&S. As I have said before, if you are involved in a supporters club in the UK or abroad and would like to promote it, let me know via the contact page.

I look forward to what 2010 brings for us as the club is doing well, I’m sure there will be articles on new players. We already have an interview with another Blues legend in the bag, and that will appear in the next few days.

See you soon!

Kev