In Focus: FA Cup Special with Birmingham City’s Jay Stansfield

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🗓️ 8 February 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this FA Cup special episode of In Focus, Aaron Paul goes to the West Midlands to speak to Birmingham City striker Jay Stansfield. The 22-year-old joined the Blues permanently in the summer of 2024 for a reported £15 million, a record deal for a club in League One, having been on loan from Fulham the previous season. The striker talks about his journey to now, the feeling it brings at the club being owned by Tom Brady and how his team will setup in their FA Cup 4th round tie against Newcastle. He opens up on the impact his late Dad, Adam Stansfield had on him, who passed away in 2010 after suffering with colorectal cancer.

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0:46.6	you get on a Saturday with a special chat with Birmingham City's Jay Stansfield,
0:51.3	that ahead of their FA Cup clash with Newcastle United. Jay, we're in the
0:56.2	inner sanctum. We can be real now. Take back to the summer and making decision to leave
1:01.7	full and while Birmingham were chasing you, because it came quite late on in the window.
1:05.6	But what was it like having to make the decision and B, what was it like being chased?
1:09.6	Yeah, it was a weird few weeks, obviously obviously because as soon as the draw come out and the
1:13.9	cup and we drew Birmingham and then it was sort of a competition where there was
1:18.3	rotations in the team so I was lucky enough to be able to start that game and then to come
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