"I am not a number, I'm a free man," bellowed the Prisoner. Greedy sod, he should have been grateful, because Coventry City striker Paul Williams is remembered in the tomes of football folly by just a solitary letter. Yes, one blessed letter.

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FOOTBALL'S TRUE HEROES: PART ONE -
DREWE BROUGHTON MONDAY 31st MARCH 2008

Spare a thought for Drewe Broughton this Monday morning.

"Who?" I hear you hollar?

You know, Drewe Broughton, the former Norwich, Wigan, Brentford, Peterborough, Nuneaton, Dagenham & Redbridge, Stevenage, Kidderminster, Southend, Rushden, Wycombe, Chester and Boston United striker, currently on loan at Wrexham from Milton Keynes Dons.

"Oh, him, right ... "


For while the gangly frontman was nodding in a consolation in the Welsh side's 3-2 defeat at a sparsely populated Underhill, the home of Barnet - a result which left the Dragons a full eight points adrift of safety at the arse end of the Football League - his MK Dons teammates were preparing to sip the sweet elixir of Wembley success by disposing of Grimsby in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy in front of 56,000 ravers.

No doubt, the nomadic frontman watched the game on telly, and raised a sparkling mineral water to his buddies, chuckling/weeping at the sick irony of our national game; for it was Broughton's penalty in the semi-final shoot-out against Swansea that booked Paul Ince's side's tickets to the home of English football.

Never mind Drewe, still plenty to play for. Keep up your good form and that switch to Wrexham could be made permanent, and who needs Wembley when you've got the likes of Farsley Celtic and Histon to look forward to in the Blue Square Premier next season?

 

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