ACCORDING to the statistics, Vicarage Road is the best ground to go to in the Championship if you want goals. Sixty nine had been scored there, on average 3.29 a game, before the weekend. There w...
ANOTHER day, another journey through the emotional wringer for Blues and their supporters. And a day for sad reflection that their most consistent defender and one of their players-of-the-season L...
THERE could well be a division separating these sides by May, but it was much too close to call on Saturday at the Valley. Disappointingly so for Blues. Charlton, bottom and with an air around the...
ASK any Birmingham City supporter, and they will tell you that their team just don’t do ‘must-win’ games. Well, that view can at last be revised after this meaty tussle when ten-man Blues responde...
NOTHING comes easy in the Championship and when Blues tend to do it the hard way, frustration reigns. It was back to the bad old ways when Norwich City visited and although Reading failed to capit...
COULD Blues just be finding their groove at the right time? Lessons of the past tell us they could well be yet, on the other hand, also suggest caution. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over and all that....
ONLY Karren Brady knows if her dear diary entry changed in the three minutes it took Martin Taylor to make an error and then atone for it. Blues looked sunk at Oakwell after Taylor inexplicably mi...
A SECOND successive single goal victory for Blues from what could turn out to be a pivotal week. Without doubt, Blues needed to defeat Bristol City and Southampton and they did so deservedly, on b...
T WAS late coming, but worth the wait – and possibly worth it’s weight too. Franck Queudrue’s winning goal in the 87th minute, an unstoppable header from a corner, catapulted Blues back into the a...
IF LEE Mason felt his visit to the Blues dressing room afterwards would offer some crumb of comfort or soften the blow of defeat, he was badly mistaken. The referee took the unprecedented step aft...
ON OTHER nights and afternoons this season Blues have created a lot fewer clear-cut chances and won. So to fluff a handful of opportunities at a time when you most need them to be taken, the overr...
YOU can call the Championship what you like – an even competition, an average competition, an absorbing competition. For Blues and their followers, it seems to be nothing but torture – and they’re...
WHAT a difference a week makes. This time seven days ago, Alex McLeish didn’t know what he was doing, Kevin Phillips was Blues’ only hope and, as for promotion, forget about it. How times change ...
Birmingham's hopes of automatic promotion suffered a blow today as they were held to a draw in their Coca-Cola Championship clash with Burnley at St Andrews. Veteran striker Kevin Phillips cancell...
Kevin Phillips headed home a stoppage-time equaliser to snatch a point for Birmingham just when it seemed all was lost for Alex McLeish's Coca-Cola Championship promotion hopefuls at Hillsborough. ...
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