English football in debt to Birmingham City

The English football community should be thanking Birmingham City Football club’s team and fans for doing their dirty work for them. With the lunatics trying to grab all the cash and scrapping promotion and relegation in the Premier League Birmingham City showed just how good the English game really is. Had the greedy foreign owner crews ( mainly the American variety)had their way Birmingham, Sheffield Wednesday, and United, Leeds and two dozen others will be excluded from this kind of situation for ever.

While they  are trying to alienate the football community Blues, a lower second tier side without a vessel in which to pass water, do what no British side has ever done. FC Bruges, one of Belgium’s most regular Euro combatants in 50 years of European football has never had their colours lowered by a British team at home.

By Alan Watton

The Belgian spectators fed the diet of the English media’s Premiership bilge were expecting an easy ride. FC Bruges were shown to be very much inferior to a side stripped of all the stars that got them into Europe and without seven or eight of what Chris Hughton might consider his best side. Add to that the sight of Pablo Ibonez being carried away on a stretcher badly concussed and Blues achievement becomes ever more remarkable.

The Fans were magnificent and I could not join in the 23^rd minute clapping such was my amazement  that the magnificent Bluenose nation should show such empathy with the home fans regarding a tribute to a man who they probably never heard of or could remember his name now. It was truly a jaw dropping moment.

As though someone was rewarding that gesture the 23^rd minute proved to be a turning point in the game.  Prior to that gesture Blues were poor, and had conceded an almost uncontested goal in the 2^nd minute. Joseph Akpala side footed past Myhill as Ibonez slipped before making a block.

Burke, Spector and finally Elliot combined neatly as the latter crossed to David Murphy who side footed home.

The Zigic Rooney Combo caused the Belgians untold problems as they carved out three clear chances. Sadly the pair both need some more football to sharpen up their finishing. The pair was replaced by King and Wood with twenty minutes to go. That was extended to over thirty as the time was added on when Ibonez was treated on the pitch.

54 second half minutes had passed and more chances squandered when King whipped a cross into the near post and the big Kiwi slammed the ball into the roof of the net and in front of the 5,400delighted well behaved  fans.

Not since Wellington spanked the rear end of Monsieur Napoleon at Waterloo has such a famous victory been achieved on Belgian soil.

God bless the Bluenose nation

By Alan Watton

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