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Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-09-03 13:51
Pannu denies rift with McLeish

Birmingham City acting chairman Peter Pannu has moved quickly to deny a rift between himself and Alex McLeish. McLeish is yet to sign a new deal at St Andrews and there had been claims of a fall-out after Pannu was quoted as saying McLeish was asking for “a very large amount of money which I [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-09-02 15:54
McLeish in contract talks deadlock

Alex McLeish’s future at Birmingham has been thrown into doubt by stalled contract talks. Birmingham vice-chairman Peter Pannu has claimed that McLeish is asking for too much money in his new contact. McLeish’s contract talks have been going on for a number of weeks and worryingly for Blues fans they don’t look any closer to being resolved. “I [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-31 15:30
Bent makes Wolves loan switch

Marcus Bent has joined Wolves on loan from Birmingham City until January. Bent has fallen down the pecking order at St Andrews after the arrivals of Nikola Zigic and Matt Derbyshire. “Marcus is an experienced striker who has played plenty of Premier League football and scored goals,” said Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey. “People still talk about whether [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-31 13:30
“We are trying our best to bring people in”

Birmingham hope to complete the double signing of Armand Traore and Martin Jiranek. We have already signed Ben Foster, Nikola Zigic, Enric Valles and Matt Derbyshire to his squad so far this summer, but have missed out on Moussa Dembele and Charles N’Zogbia over the last two weeks. “We are trying our best to bring people in [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-31 13:30
Watto’s Report: Bolton Wanderers 2-2 Birmingham City

Blues had this game taken away from them as Owen Coyle’s hoofer’s and chasers pillaged a point aided and abetted by Ref Friend (to whom?). Match of the day pundit Martin Keown tried to suggest that Bolton tried to play football and to illustrate his point showed them passing the ball 5 times after the [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-30 14:30
Birmingham City Player Ratings vs Bolton

Foster (6) Badly positioned for the fee-kick equaliser Carr (6) Getting back to his better self Johnson (6) Naive against a difficult opponent and crap ref. Dann (7) Looks assured and nullified Elmander. Ridgewell (7) Good game becoming consistently good. Larsson (7) Hard woring and got injured. Hope [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-28 00:30
Derbyshire the difference against Lancashire’s ‘Dale.

Matt Derbyshire proved to be the difference in this televised Carling Cup ties as little Rochdale embarrassed Blues though much of this rain swept contest. Whenever a Manager of a senior club trots out the old adage about players being given the opportunity to show why they should be in the team you can guarantee [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-27 22:30
Finally we get to talk to Charles

Wigan have accepted an offer from Birmingham for Charles N’Zogbia. There seems to have been a lot of progress made on the deal since Thursday after Wigan claimed that the offer at that time was lower than our original bid. Since then it appears as if we have gone back in with a bid of over £8million [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-27 11:30
Lawro predicts Birmingham to lose to Bolton

BBC Football pundit Mark Lawrenson has predicted that Birmingham City will lose to Bolton Wanderers on Sunday. He told BBC Sport Online: “You can see that Owen Coyle is slowly trying to change the way Bolton play, injecting a little more guile into the team. That said, he has recognised that Kevin Davies and Johan Elmander [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-27 10:30
Birmingham City Player Ratings vs Rochdale

Taylor (7) Did his job, no chance with goals Fahey (5) Not fair to pick him at full-back Johnson (7) Made the second goal poor passing. Dann (7) Steady but not dominant. Murphy (5) Scored but not good defensivly. Mcfadden (7) Mixed bag first penalty success for nearly [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-26 16:27
Wigan claim N’Zogbia bid is lower

Wigan boss Roberto Martinez has claimed that Birmingham’s latest bid for Charles N’Zogbia is lower than our original bid. The initial bid for the French midfielder was said to be £8million and Martinez is not happy with the offer and the McLeish’s public comments about the potential deal. Martinez said: “We had a couple of offers in [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-26 12:27
McLeish hoping for midfielder deal

Alex McLeish is hoping that Wigan Athletic will accept Birmingham’s latest bid for Charles N’Zogbia. The Blues have already had a bid of £8million rejected the the tricky midfielder and refused to reveal how much the latest offer was for - and rightly so big Eck. He explained: “We’ve put in another bid for Charles, we can [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-23 02:17
Watto’s Report: Birmingham City 2-1 Blackburn Rovers

My legions of fans who read my match report will have noticed a difference to the Blog in as much as it’s done later so I can take a more considered review of the goings on over the weekend’s football. I also can write with the joyous news that a couple of thousand Vile fans [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-22 01:17
Birmingham City Player Ratings vs Blackburn Rovers

Foster (9)* - Sensational penalty save along with all round expertise Carr (6) - Solid after last week’s nightmare Johnson (7) - Rock solid defensively. Dann (8) - Polished display good distribution. Ridgewell (7) - Good game didn’t kick the evil Diouf hard enough. Larsson (7) - Worked hard throughout Gardner (8) - Took time to get going but 2 great [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-21 22:17
McLeish’s post match comments vs Blackburn

Alex McLeish was full of praise for goalkeeper Ben Foster after he impressed in Birmingham’s 2-1 win against Blackburn. Foster was in superb form and his penalty save from Pedersen was top draw, along with a string of other saves. McLeish believes that Foster can rival former Blues loanee for the England number 1 spot, and rightly [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-21 18:17
THE TEAMS: Birmingham City vs Blackburn Rovers

James McFadden and Cameron Jermaine are among the starters for Birmingham City’s Premier League clash against Blackburn Rovers. Birmingham: Foster, Carr, Johnson, Dann, Ridgewell, Larsson, Ferguson, Gardner, McFadden, Jerome, Zigic Subs: Taylor, Murphy, Bowyer, O’Connor, Derbyshire, Michel, Fahey Blackburn: Robinson, Salgado, Samba, Nelsen, Givet, El-Hadji Diouf, Jones, Olsson, Pedersen, Nzonzi, Kalinic Subs: Bunn, Jacobsen, Emerton, Hoilett, Judge, Morris, Mame [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-20 12:17
Lawro predicts Blues to beat Blackburn

BBC football pundit Mark Lawrenson has predicted that Birmingham City will beat Blackburn Rovers on Saturday. Last time out, Lawro incorrectly predicted that the Blues would lost at Sunderland, when it ended as a 2-2 draw at the Stadium of Light. He told BBC Sport online: “Birmingham came back from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 with Sunderland [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-16 18:17
Blues salvage point from the wreckage of the Mackem nightmare

In spite of the fact that Blues had to come from two goals down this was a big opportunity missed. Boss Mcleish started off by picking a side which was never likely to create anything and was never going to achieve anything more than a 0-0 score line. Steed Malbranque should have opened the scoring [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-15 15:17
Birmingham City Player Ratings vs Sunderland

Foster (6) Had more difficulty with Carr and Bowyer than anything Sunderland could muster! Carr (2) Conceded pen. Own goal and lost the toss! Johnson (6) Error led to their first goal. Dann (7) Steady defensively Blues best goal threat. Ridgewell (7) Good game and knew little about his goal. Larsson (8)* 2 assists and technically the best on show Bowyer [...]

Birmingham City Bluesnet 2010-08-13 12:17
Lawro predicts Blues opening day defeat

BBC Football pundit Mark Lawrenson has predicted that Birmingham City will lose to Sunderland on Saturday. He told BBC Sport Online: “Sunderland are slowly improving under manager Steve Bruce. The Black Cats boss has obviously concluded that striker Kenwyne Jones does not produce often enough and sold him to Stoke, while bringing in Danny Welbeck on [...]

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