Now as an outsider but living in Birmingham amongst family and friends who are true Blues I must confess to having some deep concerns about Birmingham City fans and a culture that is uniquely theirs.
Let me explain.
Birmingham city fans are the only fans from a major club from a major city to have never won the League or FA Cup. They have been reared on a diet of unfulfilled potential, missed opportunities and abject failure. Where success is only achieved by the postponement of failure.
Now what I personally love about Blues fans is the acceptance that to follow the Blues is to consign your very existence to one of perpetual failure and misery but live it with a grace and humour, that for me is positively endearing.
And therein lays my concerns. If Birmingham are to become a stable mid table team, perhaps even pushing for Europe they run the risk of having happy optimistic fans and therefore lose the very cultural characteristics that make them the unique set of fans they are.