Huddersfield Match Preview
Pull the Hudder One… (Article Adapted From One Featured In This Weekend’s Made In Brum Magazine) After a massive ‘blip’ we’re back ‘on track’ on another mini-unbeaten-run. Long may it continue,...
View ArticleJoys and Sorrows Player of the Season Poll 14/15
The last poll we ran on this site ran like this: Where will Gary Rowett steer Blues to this season? Mid-Table Security (42%, 204 Votes) About tenth, just missing the play offs (29%, 141 Votes) The...
View ArticleJoys and Sorrows’ Player of the Season / Colin Doyle
Rather unsurprisingly, we are proud to announce that the winner of our end of season, Player of the Season Poll, is Clayton Donaldson. Well done that man, who garnered an impressive 71% of the votes....
View ArticleMatch Preview – BCFC v QPR…
This weekend, the international ball goes back in the cupboard, and the league ball comes out. Blues versus a bunch of old Queens…(apologies to any QPR fans, I couldn’t resist). QPR are presently...
View ArticleMatch Preview – BCFC v Blackburn Rovers…
Blues versus Blackburn… Last season’s Blackburn match had me wittering on about Rowett’s first 29 matches in charge with twelve wins in total. He’s added handsomely to that tally this season, but...
View ArticleView from the South – Birmingham City v Barnsley
Well, here we are at the beginning of December! T’is the season to be jolly, tra la la la la la LA LA LA and all that! Bah humbug! Christmas Carols are being played on the radio incessantly and there’s...
View ArticleIps-wich…but wh-ich Blues will turn up? Birmingham City v Ipswich Match Preview
Back to back defeats (first time this season!) since my last article means we’re now down to 8th in the table. Not too bad, all things being considered, but we could have been third if we’d beaten...
View ArticleDavid Brent-ford – Ricky Gervais or Gianfranco Zola? BCFC v Brentford Match...
Back to back defeats again – for the second time this season – provided an Ipswich sandwich. Three goals scored and eleven conceded have stripped our goal difference away totally. The blame can’t lie...
View ArticlePost Match Thoughts Blues v Newcastle FA Cup 3
I know Baz will produce his match report later, but I wanted to add some thoughts. I was up in Coventry this weekend bringing my son back to Uni after the Christmas break. He treated me to the game for...
View ArticleOne Win Leeds To Another? – BCFC v Leeds Match Preview
One win in fourteen was awful, but two wins in two would be amazing. We can dream, can’t we? The QPR defeat was dreadful, Yes we scored in the final minutes of the game, but it still felt like a 4-0...
View ArticleView from the South – Aston Villa v Birmingham City
It was more like view from the screen. Like many, I had had no chance of a ticket to attend four sheds there only being 2,000 allocated, no doubt at the behest of the police. It is such a pity that the...
View ArticleView from the South – Birmingham City v Bristol City
It was to be an earlier start than usual as I had to make the 8.02 train from Blackwater. My 93 years old aunt had been in the Good Hope in the week with a touch of heart failure but had fortunately...
View ArticleView from the South – Birmingham City v Preston North End
As I rather expected, we approached this game already in the bottom three. My relatively pessimistic report from last week hasn’t proved to be too wide of the mark. Five defeats in the first seven...
View ArticleView From the Main Stand – Birmingham City v Cardiff City
As Bazza previously expected, we approached this game already in the bottom three. His relatively pessimistic report from the previous week wasn’t too wide of the mark. Two wins and seven defeats in...
View ArticleView From The South – Birmingham City v Leeds United
First of all, before I forget my manners in the desolate gloom that is our football season, I hope all of you that read this drivel had a wonderful Christmas although the events of Boxing Day, unless...
View ArticleView from the South – Birmingham City v Burton Albion
I awoke as usual, at just after 06.00 and – not being one for lying around in bed – I got up, abluted, and headed downstairs. The dawn broke to a milky grey sky, still air and cold dew on the back lawn...
View ArticleBCFC v Hull Joys and Sorrows Match Preview
Breaching the Hull…There’s No Hullternative? by Russell Dempsey This article will appear in Saturday’s ‘Made in Brum‘ fanzine, priced £1.50 and available from sellers around the ground. After we...
View ArticleView from the South – Birmingham City v Preston North End
As I rather expected, we approached this game already in the bottom three. My relatively pessimistic report from last week hasn’t proved to be too wide of the mark. Five defeats in the first seven...
View ArticleView From the Main Stand – Birmingham City v Cardiff City
As Bazza previously expected, we approached this game already in the bottom three. His relatively pessimistic report from the previous week wasn’t too wide of the mark. Two wins and seven defeats in...
View ArticleView From The South – Birmingham City v Leeds United
First of all, before I forget my manners in the desolate gloom that is our football season, I hope all of you that read this drivel had a wonderful Christmas although the events of Boxing Day, unless...
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