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ZACH ‘CAN GO ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP’

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The LeaguePaper Team
20 September 2020

ANOTHER TALENTED YOUNG KEEPER FLOURISHES AT BLUES

By John Wragg

BIRMINGHAM City have a pedigree for producing England goalkeepers – and teenager Zach Jeacock is being backed to follow them.
Both Joe Hart and Jack Butland developed as keepers at Blues and Jeacock looks like he could be another after an impressive debut. Jeacock is only 19 and has been a goalkeeper for just five years but already he is an England youth international. It was a surprise decision by Blues boss Aitor Karanka to play Jeacock against Brentford last Saturday because he’d just bought experienced keeper...

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