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JIMMY’S BREWING UP ESCAPE

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The LeaguePaper Team
28 February 2021

Burton battlers back in mix
By Hugo Varley

CHEERS! Burton’s Danny Rowe, left, celebrates with Sean Clare after his deflected winner at Charlton in midweek
PICTURE: PA Images

WHISPER it quietly but Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink may just be engineering the great escape with Burton Albion.
The former Dutch international returned to Staffordshire on New Year’s Day with a colossal task in front of him.
The Brewers were stranded at the bottom of League One, with just two wins to their name and stuck on an optimism-sapping seven-game winless run.
But Hasselbaink is a man already worshiped ...

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