Last year, we had four goalkeepers on our books. We had the promising Jack Butland, who plays for England (previously U16 and U17 level, but now at U19 level) and was voted Young Player of the Season in 2010. We had Colin Doyle, who has one full Republic of Ireland cap. We had Ben Foster,
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  <”Made In Brum, OOOOnly a pound!”> Remember those days? Made in Brum first hit the streets of Garrison, Tilton and Coventry in 1999 for the bargain price of 100 pennies. Of course, with costs rising in the decade since, and with the increase in VAT, etc, it’s now more like, “Made in Brum, only
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The big news this weekend is that former Newcastle boss Chris Hughton has been interviewed for the vacant manager job at St Andrews.  Hughton is the first person to be interviewed although it is unknown at this moment how many others will be contacted in the next few days.  Looking at our poll it appears
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First of all, not all is guaranteed as things stand, there surely needs to be a MASSIVE influx of players, if we’re to take Europe at all seriously, even with a ‘bye’ to the third round of the Carling Cup, and assuming we’re not going to go all the way in the FA Cup, we’ve
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Booing No, not the sound Zebedee makes in the ‘Magic Roundabout’, that has an extra letter ‘i’ in it! No, this is the magical debate about whether it’s right or not to boo your team, and – if so – when it’s right. Personally I’ve never booed my team, though I must confess to having
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