The Crown Jewels

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The Crown Jewels

Now the season is coming to an end it’s inevitable that thoughts turn to who may be coming or going during the summer. Until the elusive accounts turn up we can forget about people joining so let’s look at who may go and who we must try to hold on to. Of course the most
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Blues News

View from the South – Birmingham City vs Blackpool View from the South – Birmingham City vs Blackpool

A very wet and difficult journey confronted Will and me as we left Guildford at about 15.45 journeying north via the M25 and M40. It was difficult for another reason besides the massive amounts of spray off the road surface and that was the fact that Will was even more talkative than ever. If there
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Blues News

Post Play Off Brief Post Match Thoughts

I’m gutted. Why couldn’t we play like we did for 30 minutes in the 2nd half, all the way through? Blackpool came with a positive formation, and credit to Holloway for that – but other than the 2 goals, they didn’t trouble Doyle. Unfortunately Doyle didn’t cope with the two opportunities they did have and
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Blues News

It’s Time! It’s Time!

It’s time to put aside all talk of off-field issues It’s time to forget the near misses, the goals that weren’t and should have been, the penalties we should have had and the ones that shouldn’t have been given against us It’s time to not concentrate on the poor performances, the bad tactics and the
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Blues News

Birmingham City vs Blackpool – Second Leg Preview Birmingham City vs Blackpool – Second Leg Preview

So let’s not beat about the bush, we are very lucky to still be in this tie.  Blackpool should be going into the second leg with more than a slender advantage. The Mcleish like tactics of playing for the draw on Friday night didn’t work as Blues put in their worst performance for a good
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Blog News

Forum Maintenance Completed Forum Maintenance Completed

Just to let you know, the Joys and Sorrows forum is now available again after essential maintenance. We look forward to seeing you again, or
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General Football

Play at St Andrews! – The Perfect Christmas Gift Play at St Andrews! – The Perfect Christmas Gift

It’s that time of year again: the Christmas tree is up, the snow is falling, and the streets are packed with frantic shoppers searching for the ideal festive gift for their nearest and dearest Birmingham City fan… Football Aid to the rescue! Why brave the winter weather when you can secure the gift of a
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General Sport

Top 30 Sports Blogs

The site Wikio produce a monthly table of the top sports blogs. This is the latest table. As you can see despite us dropping a
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Ladies

On the Back Seat with the Gabbie Cabbie – BCFC Ladies On the Back Seat with the Gabbie Cabbie – BCFC Ladies

Birds can’t play football, but they can try to all the same, For it’s a mans game enit, and it was a bloke who invented the beautiful game. After all you need power, pace, passion and girls just weren’t born with gifts like that, Can you imagine the dressing room, can we wait in ‘ere
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Interviews

On the Back Seat With the Gabbie Cabbie – Robert Hopkins On the Back Seat With the Gabbie Cabbie – Robert Hopkins

Joining Gabbie for another one of his “Back Seat” chats today, is Robert Hopkins. Hoppy played for us 205 times and scored 33 goals in two spells between 1983 and 1991. He played under five different managers and three owners. While at Blues, he was relegated three times and also promoted. Hoppy has also recently
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