Bazza who normally writes our match reviews under his View from the South articles, is unable to write for us this week. (He didn’t go to the game ). As a result I thought I would make a few comments on some of the reviews available on the Web.

Blues hit by Dann buster as Wolves enjoy their rest day said the Independant. McLeish is quoted as saying “The start cost us the game,” he said after the 1-0 defeat. “We didn’t deal with a long ball and they forced a corner. We didn’t learn our lesson because they scored from the set-piece. It was fairly soft.” He also refused to blame the officials for the on off on off goal!

Coventry City 1, Birmingham City 0 – Andy Walker’s Sunday Mercury verdict in the Sunday Mercury said DISAPPOINTING Blues’ morale hit a new low down at the Ricoh yesterday. In the article Chris Coleman was clearly a delighted man. He is quoted saying

“We deserved it, we created a lot of good chances and we could have maybe won it by more,” added Coleman. “Birmingham had their moments but overall we deserved the three points and I was delighted.

“We weathered it, we stayed strong and over the whole 90 minutes we created the better chances. There was a lot of enthusiasm in the performance and, to a man, I thought we were magnificent.”

Grim reading continued with Fancy Scott Dann downs Birmingham on the Timesonline site. The opening paragraph in the article says :

ANOTHER week, another stumble at the top of the Championship.

Yesterday’s fall guys, in every sense, were Birmingham City, who having given away an awful early goal, didn’t have the wit, invention or luck to carve out an equaliser. Over to Wolves, who can stretch their lead at the top to six points if they beat Cardiff at Molineux today. (Or maybe not )

There are other reports, but they all seem to say the same thing – we got what we deserved, and even IF they HAD given the disallowed goal, that would have been harsh on a Coventry side who have clearly improved in recent weeks under Coleman. They have a decent chance at making the play-offs if they carry the run on.

What of the Blues? Well it was disappointing us not winning, however Reading were well beaten at home by another rapidly improving side Bristol City. As we now know, Wolves dropped 2 points at home in a game where to quote Wenger from earlier, we as Blues fans wanted both sides to lose.

We were definitely let off the hook. We are still second 4 points behind Wolves with a game in hand and them still to play at home.  Yes we are playing poorly, yes we keep throwing away matches, yes fans are beginning to turn against the manager.

HOWEVER despite all of that, Wolves and Reading also seem to want to throw it away, we are still in the right place and we have several key players injured.

Maybe, just maybe – we are meant to go up!!!