The most important match in the Premiership takes place at Bolton on Sunday as Blues battle for that coveted 9th place. The difference between first and second, third and fourth and ninth and tenth is £750,000. That would pay a half decent striker for about six months so. How different to three years ago where we finished the season at Bolton already relegated and several...

The last home match of the season and nothing to play for. When did that last happen? The visit of Burnley should be a celebration of what has been a pretty good season and to let it die out in a whimper would be sad. Burnley can do the double over the Blues and only one team has done that this season which was accomplished with the help if Ron Atkinson’s grandson. Twelve...

If any Blues fan/player/manager is not aware of the importance of Sunday’s Derby then losing would create a unique situation as neither side have conceded more than five consecutive defeats to the other. A win for Blues would tie up the Premiership wins and also the league wins between BIRMINGHAM and Villa.  Like the inaccurate drivel that is daubed across the Holte...

It has to be said this game has about as much going for it as a fart in a Jacuzzi. I have lambasted the stay-aways all season but even I don’t blame anyone for finding an alternative to an end of season tussle with the mighty Hull City. Add our public humiliation at Eastlands last week and the World’s biggest Derby coming up in seven days time, players fans and management...

Top billing on Sky! Is the world waking up to the BlueNose nation? No doubt the likes of Jamie Rednapp will talk endlessly about Manchester City’s Champion’s League prospects and forget that Blues are not just there to make up the numbers. The last meeting with the Citizens saw Blues miss out on a deserved 3 points when James Mcfadden had his penalty saved by Shay...

Of all the so called ‘top four’ clubs, Liverpool have been most generous in coughing up Premiership points in our favour. The last time the Reds won at St Andrews was ironically during the Blues’ best Premiership season to date. Heskey and Owen led the Liverpool line that day and Emile was outstanding with a goal. The manager then was Gerrard Houlier who sold Heskey...

The prospect of a return to St Andrews by the precious untouchable Arsenal team and their manager Arsene Wenger has generated an upsurge in ticket sales. If the St Andrew’s faithful expect to hear an apology to Martin Taylor by anyone connected with London outfit then there will be snow in Timbuktu before that happens. We all felt sympathy for Eduardo but the condemnation...

Trips to Lancashire generally yield very little joy for Blues and Blackburn is a particularly poor source of points. Blues last victory at Ewood was in 1952. Even yours truly would struggle to remember that one. Blues and Blackburn have had recent acrimony based on the Robbie Savage affair, aided and abetted by Mark Hughes and Mark Bowen.  To make an enemy of the otherwise...

When Blues beat Sunderland earlier in the season the Mackems were enjoying a brief period at the level in the Premiership that Blues are now established. A League table including just the games played since then would show Blues in fourth place and Sunderland in the bottom two. It would also show Portsmouth out of the relegation zone before the 9 point deduction. That...

This match has that ‘big’ feel about it, which I’m sure the Everton fans, players and management are also aware. Everton are on a magnificent run and only have the cup defeat by Blues since the New Year blemishing a record which has seen their manager receiving the Manager of the month for February. David Moyes has grown on me over the years although that penalty...