YELLOW BELLY
Jude Bellingham has always known he is good at football, right from being a tot in the streets of Stourbridge, his talent so obvious his jumpers-for-goalposts period was all too brief. At Birmingham City, even Tom ‘Winningest’ Brady has to bow to the legend of Jude, who as a teenager helped keep Blues in the Championship, before his sale to Dortmund kept the club afloat. Thus was Jude’s No 22 shirt retired in 2021, an honour not even Trev Francis, Blues’ previous teenage deity, was afforded.
