After my harsh criticism of Blues' transfer activity, three players arrived in quick succession late on Monday morning. Tonight, two of them combined for Blues' first goal in a 2-1 win, and we finally get the Robbie Savage monkey off our back and take a giant stride towards safety with a precious three points against our relegation rivals.
Naturally we did it the hard way: 2-0 and cruising at the break, then Southampton score a goal from nowhere on 52 minutes and I spend the next 40 minutes with my heart in my mouth.
Having secured the win, a "highly entertaining" game by all accounts, I settled down to watch Sky's Match Choice, confident that - by its own previous criteria - the Blues game would be picked for the main event by virtue of the fact it featured the most goals this evening. But no, instead they pick the worst game of the evening (again the commentator's own admission) - Everton 1, Norwich 0. Cue one angry email to Sky and a very serious threat of cancelling my Sky Sports subscription. It's absolutely pathetic, and bloody typical of the media.
(This is the same media that gleefully leaped on a poorly translated article from the Spanish media that they twisted to suggest our last-minute star signing, striker Walter Pandiani, didn't want to come to Birmingham. The club has since clarified the situation in exactly the way I predicted having seen the original article and a crude translation, and said striker - nicknamed The Rifle - ensured tomorrow's headlines would be full of his goalscoring exploits instead of the London media's attempts to unsettle the club further.)
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