Football: Post Spotters' Guide to the World Cup ; with No West Midland Player in the World Cup Squad for the First Time Since England Began Competing, It's Hard for Local Fans to Know Who to Hang Their Hats On.

Birmingham Post › June 09, 2006

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AL-JABER, Sami (Saudi Arabia) - The Blue Fox was understandably rechristened the Blue Wolf when he came to Molineux in the summer of 2000.

To his considerable chagrin, he disappeared back into the big blue yonder after Colin Lee proved reluctant to play him. Not before being tempted to vent his spleen in print, though. Having given The Birmingham Post their greatest ever Wolves scoop, the club rather inconveniently sacked Lee the same night and Sami's angry words never saw the light of day.

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Football: Post Spotters' Guide to the World Cup ; with No West Midland Player in the World Cup Squad for the First Time Since England Began Competing, It's Hard for Local Fans to Know Who to Hang Their Hats On.

ALOISI, John (Australia)

- Did not have the worst scoring record in his time with Coventry City, but suffice to say that he's gone on to better things since, in Spain with Real Osasuna and Alaves. And he netted the winning penalty in the shoot-out against Uruguay that took the Socceroos to only their second World Cup.

ATKINSON, Ron - The former Aston Villa manag...

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