v Man City

ED. I don't think the players would agree about throwing the towel in for Europe. For most of them like us, its a once in a lifetime thing.
The Championship will still be here next season but the big nights under the floodlights will be a distant memory.

RBC with you all the way on that one

reckon a cheeky 0-1 and hopefully a midlands club in the next round

I'm lucky enough for it to be twice in a lifetime, maybe I'm getting blaze???

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14910208.stm

^ The BBC being fantastically damning to us as per usual.

You'd have thought that Man City we're playing a surprising poor Brazil tonight with that write up.

Talking about how easy it was for Man City to beat us. How we'd let go of our hold on the Carling Cup with such a damp squib. For heaven's sake, what was this reporter expecting?

ED. I know you've seen Blues
in Europe both now and twice 50 odd years ago but this time round must be better because we earned the right to be there this time and not by invite only although our record was very good back in the day.
If you were forced to make a choice which time is most satisfying for you, then or now?

SCT. Shouldn't worry too much about the beebs reporters because they only follow the big time Charlies. Proof is on MOTD.
For a totally impartial and unbiased view see the Birmingham Mail tomorrow

Yeah will do RBC. It's just so predictable.

"Hargreaves enjoys the perfect debut."

Of course he does, because Mancini saved it for a home Carling Cup tie against lower league opposition.

Have to laugh as well at the Beeb saying 'with 11 changes to the team that drew with Fulham...' yet say nothing of the number of changes we had since our last game.

Also, this is the calibre of the team fielded by Man City:

3 Wayne Bridge - Eng Int - 36 caps!
5 Pablo Zabaleta - Arg Int - 12 caps
7 [Sub] James Milner - Eng Int - 21 caps
13 Aleksandar Kolarov - Serb Int - 20 caps
15 Stefan Savic - Montenegro Int - 6 caps
20 Owen Hargreaves - Eng Int - 42 caps!
24 Nedum Onuoha - U21 Eng Int - 19 caps
28 Kolo Toure - Ivory Coast Int - 86 caps!
30 Costel Pantilimon - Romanian Int - 5 caps
32 Carlos Tevez - Arg Int - 60 caps!
44 [Sub] Karim Rekik - NIL
45 Mario Balotelli - Italy Int - 6 caps
49 [Sub] Luca Scapuzzi - NIL
62 Abdul Razak - NIL

Not forgetting subs that weren't used but could have been:
Taylor - NIL
Clichy - France Int - 11 caps
Suarez - NIL
Aguero - Arg Int - 31 caps

Yes, an uninspired, talentless Man City team indeed...
Look out for Sam Lyon's reports again in future doubt he knows much about teams outside of the top six.

Different, not better. In the 60's we earned the right to be there on the back of every working man that had made Birmingham great, ever bit of blood sweat and tears in every factory before, during and after the wars. Not to mention the great support that BCFC has back then. Fully deserved for entirely different reasons. Oh, and great events too, with some stunning players, under those beautiful lights. Great memories. Hope this time around means as much to the younger generations as that did back then to me.