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What is happening at Birmingham City?
Much as I did when I saw the Southampton v Sunderland scoreline last week, I did a bit of a double take when I scanned the Championship results and saw right there at the top:
Birmingham 0-8 Bournemouth
Now I know that Birmingham were reduced to ten men early on and they're without a manager at the moment, but even so, to be thrashed so comprehensively AT HOME has got to be something of a new low for a club with such a great historical tradition as Birmingham City.
All I can think is that Villa fans must be killing themselves laughing at the moment.
Birmingham 0-8 Bournemouth
Now I know that Birmingham were reduced to ten men early on and they're without a manager at the moment, but even so, to be thrashed so comprehensively AT HOME has got to be something of a new low for a club with such a great historical tradition as Birmingham City.
All I can think is that Villa fans must be killing themselves laughing at the moment.
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The club has been in a limbo state from his arrest in 2011 neither the fund to invest on and off the pitch and no real statement on looking to sell or keep going with the project. The have been circling the drain. Clarke did will given very limited resources just to keep them up.
Not a fan myself but a friend of mine his he says it is very much doom and gloom. They need to break out of the limbo state even if it means going down it might force them to sell up.
Bloody hell, I didn't realise it was as bad as that.
Great historical tradition? Think you're confusing them with someone else.
I know. Birmingham City have virtually no worthwhile history of success to speak of.
And Wigan.(yesterday excepted)
I've never been able to get my head round this. How come a club from England's second biggest city are as "small" as Birmingham City are?
Well, OK - I wasn't referring to success specifically, just their long standing presence in and around the upper reaches of English football.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29781713
It must really grate on them that Villa have such an amazing history of success.
I always wonder whether people do a double take when they scan down the list of European Cup winners and see Aston Villa's name there.
Aston Villa are a Birmingham club, aren't they? Although, you are right, I would have imagined that it would be the other way round (success-wise). It's weird!
They probably also do one when they see that Nottingham Forest have won it twice.
It was a lot easier to win it back then than it is to win the modern day Champions League.
Villa and Forest had to actually win the League to get into the competition, not just finish in the top four. It was hard to win it because the hardest part was qualifying for it in the first place.
Rowett will be a genius if he can do anything with that lot- he won't get any money either.
Lee Clark always looked he was about to burst into tears during interviews and it's hardly surprising. A complete shambles.
My old man still goes to all the home games and he's seen some dogshit in the last 40 years- he says this is the worst it's ever been.
Good luck to Rowett - hope he doesn't taint what was looking like a promising managerial career.