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Thanks, Trevor

Lifelong Birmingham City fan Keith Dixon pays his personal tribute to the late, great Blues legend...

AS A committee member, I was at a Birmingham City Former Players’ Association meeting on Monday morning, July 24 at St Andrew’s when the news broke that Trevor Francis had died at his home in Marbella of a heart attack.
Everyone in the room was shocked at his premature death, including ex-players Malcolm Page and Kevan Broadhurst, honorary vice-president Mike Wiseman, FPA chairman Tom Ross, BCFC managing director Ian Dutton, fellow committee members Pete Hall and Rob Shannon, and our guest ...

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