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JIMMY’S BREWING UP ESCAPE

Burton battlers back in mix
By Hugo Varley

CHEERS! Burton’s Danny Rowe, left, celebrates with Sean Clare after his deflected winner at Charlton in midweek
PICTURE: PA Images

WHISPER it quietly but Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink may just be engineering the great escape with Burton Albion.
The former Dutch international returned to Staffordshire on New Year’s Day with a colossal task in front of him.
The Brewers were stranded at the bottom of League One, with just two wins to their name and stuck on an optimism-sapping seven-game winless run.
But Hasselbaink is a man already worshiped ...

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