View from the South – Brentford v Birmingham City
Brentford is one of the nearer venues to me, but somehow on public transport, things still seem to take the same lengths of time to get anywhere. I usually go from my local station at Blackwater to...
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 ArticleView from the South- Birmingham City v Queens Park Rangers
You know that feeling when your bladder is full up to your neck and you’re standing at the porcelain awaiting the warm flow of relief? Well, fortunately for me, I awoke just in time! I leapt out of bed...
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 – Fulham v Birmingham City
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom friend of the maturing sun, Conspiring with him how to load and bless, The vines that round the thatch eaves run. That is how John Keats described...
View ArticleBlues v Charlton Match Preview
Charlton have stalled in recent months, having been candidates for automatic promotion last season are now staring down the barrel of the relegation shotgun. They’re presently twenty second, sixteen...
View ArticleView from the South – Brighton & Hove Albion v Birmingham City
Early doors it was a bright and chilly morning but this belied the heavy rain, biting winds with gale force gusts that we were promised later. I was up early and took the opportunity to chop off my...
View ArticleView from the South – Birmingham City v Bournemouth
Chris had pointed out a few weeks ago that there was a hospitality package going for this game at an affordable price and so we decided to hire a box for ten of us. I had four tickets so I arranged to...
View ArticleView from the South – Derby County v Birmingham City
Here is Baz’s report on yesterday’s superb win at Derby. ——————————————– At last it seemed that winter had finally arrived. Sunrise revealed a frost covered landscape, crisp underfoot and requiring of...
View ArticleGary Rowett Signs New Deal With Blues
BCFC have announced that GR has signed a new contract along with his backroom staff. This is absolutely fantastic news. The team have slowly but surely been improving since he took over after that...
View ArticleView from the South – Birmingham City v Ipswich Town
I was up early in order to have breakfast at leisure and to catch a bit of the cricket before setting off for the station. I was rather hoping that England would knock over the last couple of South...
View ArticleView from the South – Bristol City v Birmingham City
Early on, I took out a little Cairn Terrier called Bentley who belongs to a neighbour of mine who sadly is not very well at the moment and unable to do it herself. I caught the train from Blackwater to...
View ArticleView from the South – Birmingham City v Sheffield Wednesday
It was an early start to catch the 08.02 train from Blackwater station to Reading. I was making a trip up to my 92 year old Aunt’s house in Four Oaks. Poor Aunty’s had just been discharged from...
View ArticleView from the South – Rotherham United v Birmingham City
I had been in Coventry on business on Friday and Saturday morning and had stayed at Chris’s pub in Baginton for a couple of days which was the pleasant part of the trip. I finished what I had to do by...
View ArticleView from the South – Queens Park Rangers v Birmingham City
It promised to be another cold day and I wasn’t to be disavowed of that fact early on when I took my neighbour’s little Cairn terrier, Bentley out for his walk. My neighbour has been very poorly and...
View ArticleView from the South – Birmingham City v Fulham
Will and Chris had managed to get some VIP hospitality seats in one of the boxes and whilst they said they tried to get me in, the truth of it was that they probably decided I was a little too...
View ArticleView from the South – Charlton Athletic v Birmingham City
It was a lovely bright sunny morning in Surrey as Saturday dawned and there was a little Cairn Terrier to walk, newspaper to collect and lottery ticket to renew before setting off to the station to...
View ArticleView from the South – Reading v Birmingham City
Reading is one of the closest venues to me as it is but a short train trip from Blackwater, my local station. I therefore had the luxury of starting out at a civilised hour and was in The Three Guineas...
View ArticleView from the South – Birmingham City v Burnley
In typical fashion, the weather having been beautiful all the way through the working week had changed dramatically to greet the weekend and Saturday morning was dull, dank, cold and distinctly...
View ArticleView from the South – Cardiff City v Birmingham City
The spring is sprung, The grass is riz, I wonder where the boidies is? Why the boids is on the wing, Well, isn’t that absoid, Cuz everybody knows, The wing is on the boid! Here we are in early May and...
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