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Gary Newbon: Britain’s only matador - in Brum’s own Bullring!

In June 1972, I interviewed Britain’s only matador in Britain’s only bullring – the dashing Henry Higgins in the old Birmingham centre-piece, the...

Daniel Smith

My old schoolmate, the legendary football commentator John Motson, would be shaking his head in disbelief at the news that Culford School not only...

Neil Warnock has been one of the real characters of football management. He is, at the age of 76, currently not in a dug-out but instead on a...

The Coombs family’s chairmanship of Birmingham City lasted for 20 eventful years – from Clifford in 1965 to his son Keith until 1985. Another of...

The Latchford brothers – Dave and Bob – were starring at the front and back of the Birmingham City football team when I arrived at the city as the...