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The Birmingham live site looks back at the career of Mikael Forssell, a Birmingham City legend. The connection is that his first senior appearance for Chelsea included two goals in a 4-2 win over Oxford United. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/birmingham-city-mikael-fors...

Six midweek games this Tuesday, and several clubs will be looking to catch up on us from their game in hand (or pull away for MK Dons).
The only tricky looking one is Ipswich - Lincoln.

Let's hope for a few draws or defeats.

Brian Roach, Reading FC Director who helped block Thames Valley Royals, has passed away.
https://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/foot ... r-23260378

Denis Smith recalls winning the league cup 50 years ago Friday with Stoke City.
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/f ... up-6744712

Bobby Roberts remembers:
working with Jim Smith
https://www.lcfc.com/news/2500091/forme ... edium=link

Chris Hargreaves has been appointed U.21 coach at Bristol Rovers: http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/bristol-rovers-boss-darrell-clarke-brings-in-chris-hargreaves-to-take-charge-of-under-21-side/story-29707786-detail/story.html and leaves https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2022/february/chris-hargreaves/

Harlain Mbayo signs for Cobh Ramblers
https://www.echolive.ie/corksport/arid-40815363.html

Andy Burgess re-joins Barnton FC (didn't know he'd left! Actually I didn't know he'd been there already!) http://www.barntonfc.co.uk/news/knight-in-shining-armour-1398318.html Andy Burgess appointed interim boss at AFC Rushden and Diamonds https://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/burgess...

Hog wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2016 10:10 pm Chris Tardif has suffered a career threatening leg break ...

http://www.guernseyfc.com/news/road-to- ... ins-for-1f

Chris Tardif appointed as Guernsey Rangers manager
https://guernseypress.com/sport/2022/02 ... s-project/

The last three home games have all finished 3-2, with the winning team having to come from behind. Now that's entertainment. Slightly disappointing to see Bolton lose 3-1 in the game after the Lord Mayor's show, that late defeat on Saturday wouldn't have felt so bad if they had got a good win at Bur...

Apparently he resigned from the Paraguay job in June. Diaz was coach at Saudi Arabian side Al-Ittihad but has just been sacked. https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/7368222/west-ham-slaven-bilic-new-coach-al-ittihad/ Ramon Diaz sacked from Brazilian club Botafogo just 3 weeks after joining (toge...

A Valentine's day dinner in 1985 raises £1,000 for the Oxford Chest clinic
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/jim-smith-us- ... 00449.html

I missed the Wycombe game due to Covid. But since then what a run of four games. Beating Sheffield Wednesday 3-2 , Gillingham 7-2 with those 4 (four) penalties, a creditable draw away at Wigan on my first visit to the DW stadium after the earlier postponement. Yes we played the gamesmanship second h...

A great result in front of our first 10K home crowd for a few years even if we didn't deserve to win. Hopefully some of the extra fans will be tempted back for Portsmouth etc. Regarding the Defoe speculation, it was tricky trying to phrase the question in the pub beforehand. Which professional footb...

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