One of the world’s worst kept secrets was finally confirmed this morning with the announcement of the signing of former Blue Nose, Paul Devlin, but only until the end of this season. It appears that Devlin wants to keep his options open in the summer, having said last week that he felt he could still do a job in the Championship.

Devlin, now 33, has been plying his trade in recent years with Watford, but the former Scottish International winger (10 caps) has had a quite varied career.

He started out at Stafford Rangers before he was bought by Notts County for £40,000 in February 1992. From there, he moved to Birmingham City for a quarter of a million in 1996 and scored a creditable 34 times in 89 appearances, playing as an emergency striker.

He eventually went to Sheffield United, for whom he made around 150 appearances, but also had loan spells at Notts County and Birmingham before eventually moving back to St. Andrews in 2002.

He joined Watford in September 2003 and has played in 76 League games for The Hornets, scoring just 6 goals and has made 23 appearances this season, scoring twice.

He has a career total 579 games and 104 goals, but has been mostly used as a winger and certainly isn’t the big target man. We still await news of Lee Peacock.