Manchester City goalkeeper
Joe Hart admits his England breakthrough came thanks to
Birmingham City.
Hart’s emergence has meant that England owe a debt to an
unlikely source – a Scotsman. Birmingham manager Alex McLeish took
Hart on loan last season and after an indifferent start,
flourished.
“I can’t stress how important that time was,” said Hart. “If I
had been sitting on my bum that would have done nothing for anyone
– not for Birmingham, not for City and not for me.”