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CHEERS TO JIMMY AND HIS BRILLIANT BREWERS

John Salako
FORMER ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL

YOU’VE got to take your hat off to manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink for Burton Albion’s incredible revival over the last couple of months.
When Jimmy watched from the stands and saw his new side lose 5-1 at home to Oxford in the new year, he must have thought ‘what’s going on here?’.
Since then, though, he’d led the Brewers to eight wins from ten matches heading into the weekend and hauled them off the bottom of the League One table and out of the relegation zone.
It’s never easy to know why it sometimes ...

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