Football: My Debt to Albion Boss - O'connor ; Exclusive Why Blues' Pounds 2.6m New Boy Could Have Become a Baggie

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NEW Blues striker Garry O'Connor sees Albion boss Tony Mowbray as "a father figure" - and admits that he could have headed to The Hawthorns had Baggies not missed out on promotion to the Premiership.

The Scotland international was unveiled as Birmingham City's new number nine last week after arriving from Lokomotiv Moscow for pounds 2.65 million.

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Football: My Debt to Albion Boss - O'connor ; Exclusive Why Blues' Pounds 2.6m New Boy Could Have Become a Baggie

But O'Connor credits Mowbray and his Albion No.2 Mark Venus for keeping him on the straight and narrow when he might have gone off the rails.

Before heading out for an unpleasant 18-month spell in Russia, E...

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