CURTIS Davies has revealed how he had to keep his lips sealed from his best friend when Blues came in – none other than Darren Carter.

Davies joined from Villa in a £3.5 million deal last week and didn’t – couldn’t – let the former Blues favourite know.

Davies recalled: “When it came out, he texted me straight away: ‘You’re living my dream!’ He is still Blues through and through.

“The day before, we actually watched the Arsenal-Ipswich Carling Cup semi-final and I couldn’t say a thing to him.

“It was him and his old man, and if I had told his old man it would have been right round all the Blues social clubs and things like that.

“Obviously when the move then went through he was all over me ‘Oh yeah, you’ve signed for the right club’ and all that.

“He’s happy but he’s my best mate, so he would have been happy for me either way.”

Carter, a former team-mate of Davies’ at Albion, is now in the final year of his Preston North End contract, having finished a loan to Millwall.

He wrote his name in the Blues history books with the winning penalty in the play-off final shoot-out against Norwich City in 2002, securing top-flight football for the first time in 16 years.

“I have only heard the story about 100 times!” joked Davies. “We’re always telling him to bore off...