Birmingham v Newcastle United match banter!

February 15th, 2011 | 130 Comments |

Despite some valiance and derring do in some of the previous games, and still a fairly respectable mid table position, the Magpies have played six games without winning, and will certainly be looking to change that statistic at St Andrews this evening. However, despite being four places below us in the League, Alex McLeish’s Birmingham City will certainly be no pushovers. After a poor start to the season, they have undergone a recent resurgence, having won four of their last five games with the other one being a draw. They will probably be hard to break down, and possess the kind of aerial threat we used to have with Andy Carroll in the shape of Serbian giant, Nikola Žigić, who has scored in each of Birmingham’s last three games. (more…)