FOOTBALL: Albion star Andrew Whing's weekly column (September 4)

I was watching the transfer news on Monday evening and there were twists and turns all night, with Berbatov also linked to Man City.

City got taken over, too, and bid millions on players all across Europe.

We don't know what side they are going to bring, but Shaun Wright-Phillips could also be playing.

Hopefully the game will sell out and Robinho will play.

We are desperately looking forward to it, although, if I play, I could be up against Robinho. I'm sure he'll try to get a few lollipops in, so I'll just have to kick the ball as far away as I can.

All the schools go back this week, and the chairman's come up with a Community Scheme where every first-team player goes to a local school twice a month.

The club have won awards for their Community Schemes in the last few years, and this is one all the boys are looking forward to.

There's 30 schools taking part across Sussex, and we want to try to get kids back into following the club because we've lost a generation of fans since we've been at Withdean.

In the Young v Old series at training, the Olds have pulled the overall score back to 3-2 after winning a penalty shoot-out on Monday.

All the old team, including Michel Kuipers, scored penalties, while Dean Cox and John Sullivan missed for us. I scored, though, and sent Michel the wrong way.

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