It’s taken a little while, but Alex McLeish has strengthened the Birmingham squad even more ahead of the new season by taking a gamble on a Spartak Moscow player who will be a familiar name to many Arsenal supporters.

Ask the vast majority of football fans to list the ten biggest English clubs and Birmingham are unlikely to make many appearances. Ask them to list another dozen and the Blues might just sneak in. However, their newly-appointed captain believes that his team belong in the top-half of the top flight, despite them travelling to […]

It was less than a year ago when James McFadden sent the Tartan Army delirious, after his thirty-yard strike was enough to give Scotland a 1-0 win away to France in the Euro 2008 qualifiers. Despite his international heroics, ‘Faddy’ continued to struggle holding down a first-team place at Everton and a transfer to Birmingham […]

You could never accuse David Gold of mincing his words at Birmingham City. The Blues co-owner has a reputation of shooting from the hip, and he’s becoming increasingly incensed by the antics of their former manager Steve Bruce. It’s fair to say that the former Manchester United captain hasn’t featured on Gold’s christmas card list […]

A player being kept at a club against his will - now where have we heard that story before? It seems to be a recurring theme of the summer, and while Sebastian Larsson isn’t quite Cristiano Ronaldo, it appears that Birmingham City are quite happy to block the exit doors using planks of wood and […]

Yesterday Cardiff City announced the signing of an ex-Premiership striker and the future looked rosy. This morning, it emerges that they have scrapped the deal as the stiker looked elsewhere before committing to Ninian Park.

The Daily Telegraph reckons that Birmingham City are “set to lose James McFadden” and we’d have to concur.

He was a shining light at St Andrews last season, and Birmingham’s on-loan Argentine striker scored some important goals, but looks set to snub a return the Midlands and jet off to Rome.

In addition to Gareth Barry, there’s lots of speculation over Rafa Benitez’s supposed transfer targets. However, one player that the Spaniard was definitely interested in bringing to Anfield was none other than

Arsenal begin the season by hosting West Brom, Liverpool travel to Sunderland, Tottenham make the long trip to Middlesbrough. Yes it’s fixture list day! You can spend the whole day debating possible debauched weekends up north or when your play your local rivals.