Being able to 'write' and report on your favourite football club sounds like the absolute dream job.

But of course, to sing when you're winning, you need to be putting the shift in behind the scenes and hitting those deadlines, connecting with your contacts and travelling to the games hundreds of miles away, only to be doing it all over again the next week. 

Ashley Preece, Birmingham Mail and club writer reporter for Aston Villa, gives an insight in what his day-to-day looks like, how his career in journalism has led him to here, and why John Gregory is still fuming about Dwight Yorke's move to Man Utd.