Fit to be Tied Up
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Birmingham: Maik Taylor, Carr, Jaidi, Ridgewell, Queudrue (Murphy 81), Larsson, Carsley, Bowyer, Bouazza (Sinclair 63), O’Connor (Phillips 68), Jerome.
Subs Not Used: Doyle, Fahey.
Goals: Jerome 38.
Norwich: Marshall, Otsemobor, Doherty, Shackell, Bertrand, Gow, Clingan, Lappin, Carney, Mooney, Lee.
Subs Not Used: Nelson, Drury, McDonald, Smith, Adeyemi.
Booked: Lee, Marshall.
Goals: Clingan 53.
Att: 18,159
Ref: Mark Haywood (W Yorkshire).
Well another point, but it should have been three points. We need to get more goals, being second isn’t all that bad. It continues my statement of wanting the Blues to go up. After all, would we be as bad as West Brom? Probably not.
From the Gaffer Alex McLeish
“We started too casually and the players forgot what I had told them for recent home games.
“We had a good opportunity to shut the game out but then shot ourselves in the foot giving away a free-kick on the edge of the penalty area.
“We have given away far too many free-kicks away on the edge of the area in recent games and somewhere along the line you are going to get punished, as we were on this occasion. ”
We won, I happy.
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Doncaster: Sullivan, Chambers, Mills, Hird (Price 76), Roberts, Spicer, Stock (Wilson 46), Woods, Wellens (Hayter 46), Coppinger, Heffernan.
Subs Not Used: Lockwood, Shiels.
Birmingham: Maik Taylor, Carr, Ridgewell, Jaidi, Queudrue (De la Cruz 71), Larsson, Bowyer, Carsley, Fahey, Bouazza (Sinclair 76), Jerome (O’Connor 65).
Subs Not Used: Doyle, Costly.
Goals: Jerome 19, Bouazza 42.
Att: 11,482.
Ref: Peter Walton (Northamptonshire).
Picking up points is always a good thing. Getting the three points is better. I keep thinking that this team is one win away from exploding on team, but that’s the American in me. I should know following football as much as I do, the scoreline shouldn’t matter, as long as the side picks up the three required points.
From The Gaffer
from BBC Sport
Birmingham manager Alex McLeish:
“We may not be the prettiest side in the world to watch but we have perseverance, resilience and a never-say-die attitude.
“It was important tactically we played the way we did this because Doncaster are a formidable side.
“We coped with them very well – we’ve given ourselves every chance.”
Category: ChampionshipWell at least it was another point.
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FULL-TIME: BARNSLEY 1 BLUES 1
Barnsley (4-4-2): Heinz Muller; Marciano Van Homoet (Mounir El Haimour 83), Darren Moore, Dennis Souza, Rob Kozluk; Daniel Bogdanovic, Bobby Hassell, Hugo Colace, Jamal Campbell-Ryce; Jon Macken (Adam Hammill 77), Michael Mifsud. Unused subs: Luke Steele (gk), Martin Davaney, Maceo Rigters.
Booked: Hassell 43,
Goals: Mifsud 82
Blues (4-4-2): Maik Taylor; Stephen Carr, Martin Taylor, Radhi Jaidi, Franck Queudrue; Sebastian Larsson, Damien Johnson (Scott Sinclair 62), Lee Carsley, Keith Fahey; Carlos Costly (Hameur Bouazza 74), Cameron Jerome. Unused subs: Colin Doyle (gk), Garry O’Connor, Ulises De La Cruz.
Booked: Carr 28, Johnson 40
Goals: Taylor 85
Referee: Graham Horwood
Attendance: 11,299 (564 Blues fans)
All HAIL Martin Taylor! He secures a point for the Blues! So I guess not having as many strikers as we could, didn’t hurt. But I’d still like to see more than point earned folks. I know it’s hard to score, or the final scores would be basketball type. Is it asking for too much to see a 2-1 or a 3-1 scoreline favoring the Blues? Maybe this year.
From The Gaffer
as always it’s from the club’s website:
“”Although we didn’t necessarily have quite as much of a high tempo as our two recent home games we didn’t play badly and I think no-one could have complained had we come away with an even better result than a draw.
“We were organised and defended well so it was a blow to concede in the manner that we did. However no-one was more distraught about what happened as Martin Taylor was.
“But you need character and determination to succeed in this game and Martin refused to let it get to him. Within minutes he was the person reacting quickest in the box following a saved free-kick and he scored a very important goal for us.”
Six out of Six!
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Full time: Blues 1 Southampton
Blues: Maik Taylor, Martin Taylor, Stephen Carr, Radhi Jaidi, Franck Queudrue, Lee Bowyer, Sebastian Larsson, Lee Carsley, Keith Fahey (Scott Sinclair), Cameron Jerome (Hameur Bouazza), Marcus Bent (Carlos Costly).
Subs not used: Colin Doyle, Ulises de la Cruz.
Bookings: None
Southampton: Kelvin Davis, Chris Perry, Marek Saganowski, Jan-Paul Saeijs, Rudi Skacel (Ryan Smith), Andrew Surman, Jason Euell, David McGoldrick (Matthew Paterson), Morgan Schneiderlin (Zoltan Liptak), Simon Gillett, Lloyd James.
Subs not used: Tommy Forecast, Paul Wotton, Zoltan Liptak.
Bookings: McGoldrick (27), Saeijs (60), Liptak (90 + 2)
Referee: Martin Atkinson (West Yorkshire)
Attendance: 16, 735
I should have a good feeling about beating Southampton, but you know it’s just like it’s a meh match. All that really matters is that the Blues won. And I guess that’s good enough. The added caveat is that now they are a full four points up on Reading. Still can’t make too much heading on the Wanders, which stinks, but they are cruising right now. Hopefully, they can get cocky and lose their footing. Nah, that’s not going to happen.
What is bad, is the strikers. There’s only two healthy if that. So tonight against Barnsley it’s only going to be Costly and Jerome. So they can’t get injured. Maybe, Alex will call up someone from reserves or from the academy for the match.
However, Kevin Phillips and Gary O’Connor are on their way back, so there’s some hope.
From the gaffer
As always from the club’s website:
“The spirit and the way the players responded to the challenge with that little bit of added pressure showed a great mentality and I’m proud them.”
“bentWe are gutted by that because the last couple of games Benty and Cameron were instrumental in our victory the other night and have been playing to their strengths.
“Cameron had a bit of cramp it was more precautionary to make sure he’s okay for Tuesday night.”
“We’ve got our fingers crossed that Phillips and O’Connor are just around the corner to come back to the squad.”
We win, they lose, simple as that.
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Full-time: Blues 1 Bristol City 0
Blues: Maik Taylor, Stephen Carr, Franck Queudrue, Radhi Jaidi, Martin Taylor, Seb Larsson, Lee Bowyer, Lee Carsley, Keith Fahey, Cameron Jerome, Marcus Bent (Carlos Costly 79), Cameron Jerome (Scott Sinclair 90).
Subs (from): Ulises de la Cruz, Damien Johnson, Colin Doyle.
Goal: Queudrue (87)
Bristol City: Adriano Basso, Bradley Orr, Jamie McAllister, Liam Fontaine, Louis Carey, Michael McIndoe, Cole Skuse (Nicky Maynard 71), Dele Adebola (Stern John 64), Ivan Sproule (Jamie McCombe 81), Gavin Williams, Lee Johnson.
Subs (from): Peter Styvar, Chris Weale.
Bookings: Williams (84), Johnson (90)
Referee: J Moss (W Yorks)
Attendance: 17,551
Man, couldn’t the Blues have scored a little earlier than the 87th? Talk about clinching it late. On a side bar, blues fans, what’s the best way for me to watch/listen to the matches here in the states? I couldn’t find anything for this match.
With that being said, it’s great that the club’s website puts so much into the reports. It makes it easier for me to give a good report, though I’d like to watch some, to give you guys a better report.
Anyways from the club’s website: “We were missing a lot of players through injury and for us still to go out and produce a performance like that was fantastic.
“I thought there was some powerful front running from Bent and Jerome, who made things difficult for the Bristol defenders; if you run at defenders, it makes them uncomfortable.
“Our delivery from set pieces was sensational and we could have had four or five goals off of those, Jaidi was unlucky on a couple of occasions and the goalkeeper made one particularly good save.
“But to get the goal as late as we did was a tremendous relief and there was no way back for the opposition.”
Up next for the club Southampton on Saturday at St. Andrews.
Category: Birmingham Team NewsDammit
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FULL-TIME: BLADES 2 BLUES 1
Blades: Paddy Kenny, Greg Halford (Leigh Bromby 79), Gary Naysmith, David Cotterill, Chris Morgan (C), Matthew Kilgallon, Darius Henderson (Craig Beattie 73), Danny Webber (Jamie Ward 77), Nick Montgomery, Stephen Quinn, Kyle Naughton. Unused subs: Arturo Lupoli, Brian Howard.
Goals: Webber 43, Cotterill 83 (pen)
Bookings: Montgomery 16, Quinn 48, Naughton 90
Blues: Maik Taylor, Stephen Carr, Radhi Jaidi, Franck Queudrue, David Murphy, Scott Sinclair (Gary McSheffrey 70), Lee Carsley (C), Keith Fahey, Hameur Bouazza, Carlos Costly (Cameron Jerome 46), Marcus Bent. Unused subs: Colin Doyle, Martin Taylor, Damien Johnson.
Goals: Morgan (og) 74
Bookings: Bouazza 32, Carr 64, Carsley 87
Referee: Mr L Mason
Attendance: 24,232
So basically, Blades get three goals? Ugh. I’m glad I couldn’t find this on any form yesterday. I probably would have thrown something, or a lot of things. As I have said before, I want the Blues to go up this year. Its not fun being down in the Championship, but it’s not like Leeds being down in the old third division. I’m sorry, but that still makes me laugh.
So what did Alex say in the post match presser? (as always from the club’s website): “There’s no accounting for what happened with the goal because from the long diagonal they are clearly offside.
“But what happened next is certainly a concern for me, the defenders fell asleep for the second ball and that’s a problem, especially with the experience we have in the back-four.
“After we managed to get back into the game, it was just such a soft penalty, I think you’d get ten penalties and a thousand fouls in a game if that was considered a foul and I don’t know why he had to give it.”
So what’s good coming out of this match? Well other than still being second in the table, nothing.
What’s gotta get better? a lot, in order to go up, the defenders need to play better, and not worry about the refs.
Category: Birmingham Team NewsWell, at least it was a point
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FULL-TIME: PALACE 0 BLUES 0
Crystal Palace: Julian Speroni, Matt Lawrence, Clint Hill (C), Jose Fonte (Danny Butterfield 78) Alan Lee, Nick Carle, Victor Moses (Lee Hills 54), Neil Danns, John Oster (Johnny Ertl 88), Rui Fonte, Nathanial Clyne. Unused subs: Shefki Kuqi, Nathanial Pinney.
Bookings: Fonte 72
Sent off: Carle 77
Blues: Maik Taylor, Stephen Carr, David Murphy, Liam Ridgewell (C), Radhi Jaidi, Lee Bowyer, Keith Fahey, Sebastian Larsson (Damien Johnson 83), Scott Sinclair (Hameur Bouazza 66); Carlos Costly (Cameron Jerome 59), Marcus Bent. Unused subs: Dean Lyness, Djimi Traore.
Bookings: Johnson 84, Bowyer 89
Referee: Mr P Taylor
Attendance: 12,847 (489 Blues fans)
Yawn, 0-0 tie with Crystal Palace. Boring (sorry my inner Homer Simpson is coming out again). 
Alex McLeish told bcfc.com: “We were much better today and I was pleased with the tempo of our performance and how we took the game to Palace.”
He went further on to say: “We created four or five excellent chances – it’s just frustrating we weren’t clinical enough to take them, because we more than deserved the full three points tonight.”
Yeah, you created them, but that doesn’t matter, you need to finish them. Creating is good, but it doesn’t win you matches. I’m not one to make any excuses or anything, however the Blues need more than a point here, and a point there.
Category: Birmingham Team NewsDamn those Sky Blues
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Well, well, it seems like light blue can beat dark blue. And I don’t like that. Coventry beat Birmingham City FC 1-0.
Coventry City (4-4-2): Kieren Westwood; Stephen Wright, Scott Dann (c), Ben Turner, Danny Fox; Leon McKenzie (Jordan Henderson, 55), Aron Gunnarsson, Michael Doyle, David Bell; Clinton Morrison (Freddy Eastwood, 89), Leon Best (Robbie Simpson, 88). Subs (Not Used): Andy Marshall (GK), Guillame Beuzelin.
Goals: Dann (2)
Bookings: None
Birmingham City (4-4-2): Maik Taylor; Sebastian Larsson, Martin Taylor, Liam Ridgewell, David Murphy; Scott Sinclair, Lee Carsley (c) (Hameur Bouazza, 33), Lee Bowyer, Keith Fahey; Cameron Jerome (Carlos Costly, 71), Marcus Bent. Subs (Not Used): Dean Lyness (GK), Damien Johnson, Djimi Traore.
Bookings: Bowyer (foul), Larsson (foul)
Attendance: 22,637 (4,248 Blues fans)
Ok now that we have that out of the way, losing sucks. Having been apart of many losses in my playing life (let’s not overhype me, I wasn’t a star). But the Blues need to go up this year. The Championship is one league too low for them. I know, the fans of the other Championship sides won’t like me saying that, but tough I’m allowed to have my own opinion.
What did our amazing gaffer say after the match: “There’s no doubting we have to be better than that and I certainly thought we would be – I came here full of confidence and optimism that we’d build on the good performance and result against Forest.”
He went further on to say on the club’s website: “We conceded so early in the game that it made life hard for us and it was the kind of goal you don’t want to be giving away – allowing an opposition defender to remain unmarked and finish easily from a corner.”
Category: Birmingham Team NewsBlues beat Reds
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That title almost sounds like a color argument at Crayola. But Birmingham City FC beat Nottingham 2-1.
Full time: Blues 2 Forest 0
Blues: Maik Taylor, Martin Taylor, David Murphy, Liam Ridgewell, Lee Bowyer, Sebastian Larsson, Lee Carsley, Scott Sinclair, Keith Fahey (Hameur Bouazza), Kevin Phillips (Cameron Jerome), Marcus Bent (Carlos Costly).
Subs not used: Colin Doyle, Franck Queudrue.
Bookings: Bowyer (87).
Goals: Bent (61), Fahey (75)
Forest: Paul Smith, Kelvin Wilson, Luke Chambers, Wes Morgan, James Perch, Lewis McGugan, Nathan Tyson, Chris Cohen, Joe Garner (Adam Newbold), Brendan Moloney (Garath McCleary), Joe Heath (Ian Breckin).
Subs not used: Paddy Gamble, Matt Thornhill.
Bookings: Perch (58)
Referee: Graham Laws (Tyne and Wear)
Attendance: 17, 631
I have nothing against Nottingham Forest, in fact I kind of pull for them. I just think that they need more good players. I’m too young to know them as a power, but I would love to see it again.
I just needed to put something up that shows us scoring against that other team.
Category: Birmingham Team NewsAcademy News
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Hello, fellow football fans. It’s rare, if someone posts a blog about their club’s academy. Such a shame, because there could be a lot of talent down in the academy’s. So guess what I’m doing? Talking about the Blue’s academy today. The club is through to the quarters of the FA Youth Cup after a 2-0 win over Torchwood FC, err Cardiff. Next up for the club is Watford or Ipswich. 
There were goals from Mitch McPike and Jack Rutter that sealed the win for the team. From the club’s website: Academy manager Terry Westley said after the match “This is the second time in three seasons that our youth team have got through to the quarter finals which is an excellent achievement.”
He went on to say: “We played ever so well in the first half and looked dangerous in attack with Jake Jervis and Robert Gradwell, very creative with Mitch McPike and Ashley Sammons in midfield and solid as a rock at the back.”
And to further what he was saying: “But we’re now in the last eight and the players and the staff deserve a lot of credit for what they’ve achieved”
Category: Birmingham Team News
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