FOOTBALL: Albion star Andrew Whing's weekly column (August 28)

At 23, I'm just scraping into the younger team, and we have now won three games, to their one. We cruised into a 3-0 lead inside a minute on Friday, but the old guys always come back. It got a bit tense, but we managed to hang on.

It's always good to put one over on the old guys, and it shut Nicky Forster up for a while. Whenever he scores in training, he screams about it, so everyone knows.

He's also very chirpy at the moment because he's scored in all four of our matches, but long may that continue.

We came up against our former striker, Alex Revell, against Southend on Friday.

He's a good lad, but he could have been sent off for a challenge on our keeper, Michel Kuipers.

If I was Revs, one person I wouldn't pick on would be Michel. He's a big lad and used to be in the Dutch Marines, even though we pretend he was only a chef!

We had Saturday and Sunday off, so I went back home to Birmingham for the weekend.

On Sunday, I was captain in a charity cricket match at our local sports and social club, which we lost by 19 runs.

There was a disco in the club afterwards, and there were a lot of Birmingham fans in, so the first song played was Delilah, because Villa lost to Stoke on Saturday.

It was all good-natured, and it's a friendly club, but there were still a few too many Birmingham fans there for my liking.

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