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DATE:
Wednesday 25th July 2007, 7.45pm
FIXTURE:
Northampton Town v West Bromwich Albion
COMPETITION: Pre-Season
Friendly
TEAM NEWS
Albion travel to Sixfields
on Wednesday night to
take on League One side
Northampton Town in
their latest pre-season
friendly with newest
recruit Filipe Teixeira
expected to take some
part in the game should
international clearance
be granted in time.
The Portuguese midfielder
who joined up with the
club last week has now
got a few days training
under his belt and has
had the chance to meet
his new team-mates.
Fresh from their Balkans tour Albion will be looking for
their first victory of this pre-season with the three
previous friendlies all ending in draws against Histon
(1-1), Hajduk Split (0-0) and Red Star Belgrade (1-1).
With the defensive part of the side looking tight, the
fans will be hoping for a few more goals to cheer in
this pre-season. It is expected Albion will travel to
Northamptonshire with a full squad but perhaps missing
Neil Clement who has yet to figure so far this
pre-season due to family reasons.
Northampton
Town
with Stuart Gray in charge have played four games so far
this pre-season and like Albion have yet to taste
defeat, they played twice on a tour of America winning
both games 3-1 against UE San Jose and 5-0 against SD
Portmany before returning to England and beating
Kettering Town 1-0. Last Saturday they entertained
Championship side Coventry City and earned a creditable
1-1 draw with Andy Kirk getting the equaliser from the
penalty spot. Goals seemingly not too much of a problem
this pre-season with Andy Holt scoring 3 times in the 10
goals scored so far. With Albion’s defensive record,
something could give either way.
New signings for Town include Danny Jackman, a former
Aston Villa trainee (the 24 year old left-back arrived
on a free transfer from Gillingham), 22 year old Ian
Henderson (utility player from Norwich City), former
Wolves striker Colin Larkin (free transfer from
Chesterfield) and latest signing Giles Coke who arrived
from Mansfield Town with the fee to be decided by
tribunal.
CONNEXIONS
Current Connexions
Northern Ireland international
James Quinn
joined Albion in February
1998 from Blackpool
for a £500,000 fee.
He spent four years
at The Hawthorns making
in excess of 120 appearances
scoring 10 goals in
all competitions. During
the latter stages of
his Albion career he
had brief loan spells
with Notts County and
Bristol Rovers before
being released in the
summer of 2002.
He then
spent three years with Dutch outfit Willem II before
returning to England. Whilst looking for a new club he
had a brief spell training with MK Dons before Paul
Sturrock took him to Sheffield Wednesday on a short-term
contract. He then joined Peterborough United in August
2005 and in October the same year spent a one month loan
at Bristol City..
He
joined Northampton Town in August 2006 penning a
two-year deal and towards the end of the 2006-07 season
had a loan spell with Scunthorpe United.
Past Connexions
Players who
have played for both teams:
Norman Aldridge, Ian
Benjamin, Trevor
Benjamin, Daryl
Burgess, Tony Dobson,
Ray Fairfax, Dave
Gilbert, Frank
Griffin, Chris
Hargreaves, Sam
Heaselgrave, Carl
Heggs, Roy Hunter,
Ryzsard Krzywicki,
Harry Lowery,
Des Lyttle,
John Morrow,
Micky Perry,
Graham Potter,
Syd Rawlings,
George Reilly,
Jack Sankey,
Martin Singleton,
Garry Thompson,
Bob Ward and
Colin West.
John
Gorman was
assistant manager to
Dennis Smith at The
Hawthorns and later
became joint caretaker
manager with Cyrille
Regis for a short period
of time. He was appointed
as Northampton's manager
in June 2006 but resigned
due to personal reasons
in December the same
year.
TICKET
INFORMATION
Ticket prices
are £10 adults, £8 seniors/students, £3 juniors and free
for under-7s.
Albion fans
will have to purchase a ticket from the portakabin
situated directly behind the South Stand as you cannot
pay on the turnstiles.
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