Let’s face it, surely it’s far better to be a mid-table Premier League outfit than oscillate between the top flight and the Championship, giving the impression that you can’t cut it with the big boys on a regular basis? Anyone with half a brain would agree but perhaps that doesn’t apply to David Gold, someone […]

What happens when you’re drawing or losing a football match in the English second flight? Do you a) panic and tell the team to play it long, b) send your central defender into attack or c) bring on Kevin Phillips to save the day?

Ever since Birmingham City were relegated from the Premier League on the last day of the season, there have been plenty of rumours linking James McFadden with a move to a top flight club, whether that’s in England or Scotland.

One game down, forty-five to go as far as the 24 teams in the Championship is concerned, but what did the opening weekend of fixtures tell us? Many regard Doncaster’s 1-0 win at Derby as the performance of the weekend, but that’s only working on the assumption that Rovers were playing League One football last […]

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.