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GARY’S FILLEDMEIN ON HIS OLD BLUES

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The LeaguePaper Team
23 April 2017

By John Wragg

HARRY Redknapp has called Gary Rowett to try and make sure giving up family life to manage Birmingham will be worthwhile.
Redknapp, 70, would have been thinking about driving down to see his horses at the stables, maybe having egg and bacon at a café and watching the grand kids playing football.
Instead, he will be in the dugout at Villa Park today trying to halt Birmingham City’s disastrous slide and keep them from relegation to League One.
So, to get the SP, ‘Arry rang Gary. Rowett, now at Derby, had the Blues three points off third place in the Champio...

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