FOOTBALL: Albion star Andrew Whing's weekly column (August 21)

City are a very good team, and their left-winger, Martin Petrov, is very quick. So, if I do play, I'll have to make sure I'm not chasing his heels.

It will obviously be a difficult game, but it's a great opportunity to play a Premier League team and, hopefully, for us to cause an upset.

It will be at Withdean, on a Tuesday, so, hopefully, the weather is bad to make it more of a leveller.

At the Villa game, I was sitting with my dad and uncle, and Gabriel Agbonlahor was having a bad game. I was saying to them 'get him off, he's useless'.

But he then went and scored a hat-trick in seven minutes, and, like a typical fan, I'm singing his praises, saying he should be man of the match.

I was on fire in shooting practice on Monday and the assistant-gaffer, Dean White, is calling me a training ground international.

I was banging the goals in, and he kept saying "why can't you flipping do that on a Saturday?"

I'm getting closer and a goal's coming '” my last was in 2005 for Coventry and was the last one scored at their Highfield Road ground.

All my dad's mates in Birmingham keep putting money on me to score.

I keep telling them it's coming, but now, every time I go back home, I keep my head down because everyone is losing money on me.

Click here for the August 14 column.

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