So, the "mighty" Birmingham City are in town tommorow; and I'm sure they will travel down in their hundreds. Well they've never been big travellers. This is a game that will mean a lot to all supporters buy especially to anyone who has ever been to St Andrews. If you've never been to Birmingham away, I'll paint you a picture. There fans will wait till theres only a few of you and then come out of nowhere to give you a battering. I visited St Andrews for the first time last year in the Carling Cup semi final and I was shocked to see Hammers fans covered in blood from being attacked by natsy brummies. Due to this experience, I am always desperate to see us beat them when we meet, I want the bragging rights but more importantly, I want to see their fans gutted and have a long, depressing trip back to their slum in birmingham.
The majority of their support is nasty and I rank their fans close to Millwall on pure nastyness. It's funny though, there not so gobby or bullish when on their travels. Presumably because they do not have their equally irresponsible and bullish West Midlands Police Force to hide behind.
Moving away from their fans. I wll say I am looking forward to seeing what is going to be a cracking game of football. Birmingham are on a good run of from and we are both off the back of good wins at the start of this weekend. With us playing on Friday and them playing yesterday, we have had a crucial extra day to recover, so surely that means we have a physical advantage, especially as they've played a lot more games than us this season.
Joey O'Brien is the only person we know that will not feauture, while Faubert and Collison are 50/50 to make it. So we have a fit squad and one that should be able to see of Birmingham in this fixture. If we can play like we did against Peterborough, Reading and Barnsely then we can get a good win and put real pressure on Southampton and Reading.
My Starting XI v Birmingham would be:
GK: Green D: Demel, Tomkins, Faye, McCartney M: Nolan, Noble, Taylor F: Vaz Te, Maynard, Cole
SUBS: GK: Henderson D: Collins M: Lansbury F: Baldock, Cole
COYI
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