Here is a preview for tonights game from Chris. Blues face a potential banana-skin Carling Cup tie tonight as newly-promoted Rochdale come to St.Andrews, in view of the Sky Sports cameras. The Dale finished third in League Two last season, ending a 36-year stay at the bottom of the footballing pyramid. Their tendancy to try
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Here is another article by almajir, originally posted on his blog here. He has given us permission to re-publish here. For the second season in a row, Alex McLeish has opted not to start with his marquee signing striker in the first eleven, but to leave him on the bench. Whilst I believe Chucho truly
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Bazza didn’t make the game this weekend, but has written this observation on the thorny issue of referees! Like many I’m very pleased that we went up to Sunderland, a notoriously difficult place to get any type of positive result from and get a draw especially when we were 2 – 0 down to a
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Well here we are again.  Only a couple of days to go until we start another season at the top table and we’ll head up to Sunderland with a good degree of optimism for the year ahead.  But what are our expectations?  Do we expect to push on and break into the top eight or
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Although not written for us, almajir posted this on his blog this morning. I was considering writing about GOC yesterday. I think he is a better player than he gets credit for. Anyway over to almajir. (We obviously have his permission to re-post this.) One of the biggest questions raised so far from Blues’ tour
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