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		<title>Blues brush Sheffield United aside to reach FA Cup 5th round.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not even the spur of the home crowd could help promotion hopefuls Sheffield United as they were comprehensively beaten 0v4 by Birmingham City in the FA Cup fourth round.
Striker Adam Rooney reiterated before the game that Blues&#8217; FA Cup challenge is serious, despite the demanding number of fixtures to play already this season: &#8221;We want to win every game we play in. We showed our desire against Wolves and we wanted to get through to the next round &#8211; Sheffield will be no different.&#8221; Chris Hughton had decided to shuffle the pack ...]]></description>
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		<title>Important winger Beausejour set to depart for the promised land.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brokennoseofstevebrass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as Birmingham City had picked up a great deal of momentum in their chase for promotion, the Blues look set to lose some of this impetus. Much to the disgrace of many Blues fans, the Chinese-led board appear to have accepted an &#8220;undisclosed&#8221; fee from Wigan Athletic for winger Jean Beausejour; a player who has played a significant role in Birmingham&#8217;s Championship campaign so far.
After breaking into the play-off positions for the first time this season, with a game in hand, and on a good run of form, news of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Davies heads Blues into play-off positions.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brokennoseofstevebrass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Curtis Davies has been heading in the right direction (in both senses of the phrase) during recent weeks. The ever improving centre half notched up another two headed goals either side of half-time as his contribution to a straightforward 3v0 victory against struggling Watford at St. Andrews on Saturday.
In a game where the Blues were slow out of the blocks, Birmingham eventually finished Watford off without breaking too much sweat.  Davies&#8217; first goal came from a Keith Fahey cross, whilst his second was courtesy of a corner. Chris Burke got ...]]></description>
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		<title>Another mile added to the marathon, yet the Blues go marching on.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brokennoseofstevebrass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-six games into the Championship season, and Birmingham City have just completed their 36th match. The Championship is unquestionably a long and protracted year, but the Blues aren&#8217;t stopping there; they&#8217;re challenging on all fronts. Last night&#8217;s F.A.Cup victory against Wolves at Molineux means that yet another game will be added to Birmingham&#8217;s fixture calendar, however, this is being savoured rather than shunned by the players and fans alike.
In terms of the victory last night, there were a number of positives that were taken from the game. First and foremost, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Following relegation, an ominous arrest, and a rather nasty vilification, Birmingham City have swiftly picked up the pieces.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brokennoseofstevebrass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not surprising that Blues fans have been fairly quiet on this blog of late considering the traumatic anti-climax of last season&#8217;s relegation. Following the euphoria of Carling Cup success last February, Birmingham&#8217;s season took a dramatic U-turn. The 2v1 victory against Arsenal, despite leading to their first haul of silverware for 48 years, disguised the severely limited capabilities of a team that regularly fielded such negative tactics (the good old &#8220;hoof and hope&#8221;). It was less a shock than a formality that after totalling the fewest goals for ...]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell Sir Bobby.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theurbaneguerilla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[



I know he had no association with Birmingham City as such, but Sir Bobby Robson&#8217;s passing was a real shame for all football fans.
As a man of a certain age I can remember Sir Bobby as manager of a little club in East Anglia in the seventies, who played excellent football and scored great goals. Players of the ilk of Frans Thijssen, Arnold Muhren, Kevin Beattie, Eric Gates, John Wark, Alan Brazil, Paul Mariner, Paul Cooper, Russell Osman, Mick Mills, etc, helped Robson turn Ipswich Town into near title winners.
They ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mad Men Pt 2 &#8211; The Middle Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theurbaneguerilla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[


We&#8217;ve already looked at the mad men who populated Birmingham&#8217;s defence so now it&#8217;s time to turn our attentions to the midfield and forward areas.
It has to be said that Birmingham had no less an embarrassment of riches in this department and some memorable names graced the more advanced areas of the park, often electing for the comfort of an early, solitary bath time.
Kenny Burns has already been mentioned in dispatches, as has Archie Gemmill, yet these hard men appear as mere pussycats in comparison others.
One man who will long live ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mad Men &#8211; Part 1: The defenders.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theurbaneguerilla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Birmingham City is a big city club with a history of heroic failure &#8211; the ultimate yo-yo club. Yet it has attracted plenty of big players in its time, including its fair share of &#8220;mad men&#8221;. Why do Blues continue to favour the more psychopathic among the fooballing fraternity?
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One theory as to why is that the catchment area for Birmingham&#8217;s fans is depressed. It&#8217;s where hard people live hard lives and Blues fans have always identified with those who are willing to die for the cause. Many is the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Birmingham City 0-2 VfB Stuttgart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theurbaneguerilla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps losing their first pre-season match, with a disjointed team, against a Bundesliga side preparing for Champions League qualifiers is not such a tragedy.
Stuttgart withstood Blues pressure and possession to finally break the Premier League newcomers down with two goals inside the final quarter-hour, through Elson and Julian Schreiber.
This was Blues’ first taste of action since beginning their pre-season training camp in Austria’s picturesque Zell-am-See and, although not a satisfactory scoreline, manager Alex McLeish will be learning vital lessons about his players.
“We have trained hard since coming out to Austria,” ...]]></description>
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		<title>Birmingham City Transfer News</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akvbcfc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a window it has been for the Blues.
Alex McLeish realised the job in hand when promotion was confirmed and he has set about improving the squad to somewhere near the level required to &#8216;hack it&#8217; in the self-proclaimed best league in the world. McLeish knew, and he still does know that there is much work to be done, as he sets about trying to reinvigorate a side labelled as nothing but &#8216;efficient&#8217; and work-man like by the media.
Unlike many managers who have refrained from acting early, McLeish took the ...]]></description>
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