Team News Scott Golbourne could be given his first Barnsley start after scoring as a substitute against Watford last week. Blues have doubts on the fitness of Nikola Zigic (Knee) and Guriane N’Daw (Hamstring) but Marlon King (groin) is fit after playing against Portsmouth. Reverse Fixture Blues needed a late Chris Burke goal to rescue
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This weekend brings one of the highlights of the football calendar, the third round of the FA Cup. While the competition has been downgraded over the last few years by the “Premiership is everything” attitude it’s still one I very much look forward to. While we can’t reasonably expect to win it and we’ve already
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It’s an old adage in football that you can’t take the league table seriously until ten games are played and while we are a bit behind the Championship reached that milestone at the weekend. So with no games this weekend it’s a good time to take stock on how we are doing. If this was
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With the loan window opening up today managers in the football league will be looking to add to their squads by persuading their compatriots in higher leagues to send them some youngsters to give them game time. This has been useful for us in the past especially in 2006 when the Arsenal trio arrived and
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We’ve all seen the pictures and some of you will have been caught up in the idiocy of the last few nights in the West Midlands.  The police are doing the best they can but are overstretched trying to cover a large area.  In London things have calmed down a bit but all midweek games
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