View from the South – Milton Keynes Dons v Birmingham City
After exploring ways of getting to this venue by train it turned out it was going to be easier to travel by car. Bank Holiday weekends being what they are meant that my SatNav assiduously avoided the...
View ArticleMatch Preview – BCFC v QPR…
This weekend, the international ball goes back in the cupboard, and the league ball comes out. Blues versus a bunch of old Queens…(apologies to any QPR fans, I couldn’t resist). QPR are presently...
View ArticleView from the South- Birmingham City v Queens Park Rangers
You know that feeling when your bladder is full up to your neck and you’re standing at the porcelain awaiting the warm flow of relief? Well, fortunately for me, I awoke just in time! I leapt out of bed...
View ArticleMatch Preview – BCFC v Blackburn Rovers…
Blues versus Blackburn… Last season’s Blackburn match had me wittering on about Rowett’s first 29 matches in charge with twelve wins in total. He’s added handsomely to that tally this season, but...
View ArticleView from the South – Fulham v Birmingham City
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom friend of the maturing sun, Conspiring with him how to load and bless, The vines that round the thatch eaves run. That is how John Keats described...
View ArticleView from the South – Brighton & Hove Albion v Birmingham City
Early doors it was a bright and chilly morning but this belied the heavy rain, biting winds with gale force gusts that we were promised later. I was up early and took the opportunity to chop off my...
View ArticleView from the South – Birmingham City v Milton Keynes Dons
First of all, a Merry Christmas and very happy forthcoming New Year to one and all. Quite a bit has happened since my last blog; two away games at Middlesbrough and Preston which yielded a point apiece...
View ArticleView from the South – Birmingham City v Brentford
Happy New Year everyone. Saturday morning broke to dismal lashing rain and a chilly breeze. My youngest son, Ben was home for a few days and had expressed a wish to take in a game and so it was that I...
View ArticleView from the South – Bristol City v Birmingham City
Early on, I took out a little Cairn Terrier called Bentley who belongs to a neighbour of mine who sadly is not very well at the moment and unable to do it herself. I caught the train from Blackwater to...
View ArticleView from the South – Birmingham City v Sheffield Wednesday
It was an early start to catch the 08.02 train from Blackwater station to Reading. I was making a trip up to my 92 year old Aunt’s house in Four Oaks. Poor Aunty’s had just been discharged from...
View ArticleView from the South – Rotherham United v Birmingham City
I had been in Coventry on business on Friday and Saturday morning and had stayed at Chris’s pub in Baginton for a couple of days which was the pleasant part of the trip. I finished what I had to do by...
View ArticleView from the South – Birmingham City v Fulham
Will and Chris had managed to get some VIP hospitality seats in one of the boxes and whilst they said they tried to get me in, the truth of it was that they probably decided I was a little too...
View ArticleView from the South – Charlton Athletic v Birmingham City
It was a lovely bright sunny morning in Surrey as Saturday dawned and there was a little Cairn Terrier to walk, newspaper to collect and lottery ticket to renew before setting off to the station to...
View ArticleView from the South – Birmingham City v Burnley
In typical fashion, the weather having been beautiful all the way through the working week had changed dramatically to greet the weekend and Saturday morning was dull, dank, cold and distinctly...
View ArticleThe Wolves Are Running…Scared? Joys and Sorrows Match Preview
Well, we’re already into home match number two! How quickly did the summer fly by, and how quickly will this season go by? Assuming we don’t lose on Saturday, there’s plenty to be positive about the...
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