By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year EXCLUSIVE 12 September 2011 Garry O’Connor, a Scotland striker who played for Birmingham City in the Premier League, failed a drugs test for cocaine while at the club and served a secret ban as he sought and received help for drink and drug problems, Sportingintelligence […]
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For the drop? History says West Brom, Wigan and Birmingham
By Brian Sears 29 March 2011 Just 82 Premier League games remain to be played this season, and it’s great fun trying to predict the outcome. Using historical results based on previous Premier League meetings, sportingintelligence has projected the end-of-season table for 2010-11. The full explanation of how we reached our conclusions is elsewhere today. […]
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Premier League keep eye on Birmingham’s finances as European fate linked to survival
By Nick Harris 6 March 2011 Birmingham’s financial plans for the coming year will be scrutinised by the Premier League at the end of March in the first stage of the process that will determine whether the Carling Cup winners will be allowed to play in Europe next season or not. Uefa’s licensing rules means […]
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Former Birmingham owner David Gold banned from match over war of words
By Nick Harris 5 November 2010 David Gold, the former co-owner of Birmingham and now the co-owner of West Ham, has today been banned from attending tomorrow’s match between the teams at St Andrew’s over comments reported in a variety of newspapers today. Remarks reported in this report in the Telegraph were key to the […]
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Aston Villa head into Birmingham derby seeking seventh (straight win) heaven
By Brian Sears 28 October 2010 A remarkable sequence of results has unfolded in the 12 Premier League derbies between Aston Villa and Birmingham over the past eight years, a period only denied four further meetings by temporary Blue absences from the top flight. For the first six of those meetings, Birmingham hardly put a […]
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Birmingham pay £2.2m to settle Seymour Pierce dispute but say they’ll appeal
27 April 2010 Birmingham City have announced they have paid a disputed £2.2m debt to Seymour Pierce in full, but are also appealing a High Court decision that forced them to pay the money, which they have claimed they don’t owe. “As previously announced, Birmingham International Holdings Limited is appealing the decision,” the statement says. […]
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Birmingham owner given deadline of 27 May to pay ‘immaterial’ £2.2m debt
By Pete Wilson 15 April 2010 (with 16 April update at the bottom) Birmingham City’s owners have been set a deadline of 27 May to pay a debt of £2.2m to the investment bank, Seymour Pierce, or else risk having their shares sold off to meet their obligations. But the club have this afternoon dismissed […]
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Birmingham City owner: I want Dalglish (… in my photo)
By Nick Harris 5 April 2010 On a journalistic assignment at Birmingham City yesterday, I just happened to be in the BCFC boardroom shortly after the end of the 1-1 draw with Liverpool when Kenny Dalglish came through from the adjoining dining room to say goodbye to his host for the day, Carson Yeung, Birmingham’s owner. Mr Yeung […]
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‘Hit the post? Pardon the profanity, but no shit, Sherlock’
Brought to you in association with the UK Concrete Show (“The whole of the concrete industry under one roof!“) . By Martin Kelner 27 June 2016 What is the point of Robbie Savage? I don’t mean that as a personal attack on the former Leicester City / Birmingham / Blackburn Rovers / Derby County midfielder […]
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Bob Latchford and me: a boy’s own tale
. Norwegian sports writer Andreas Selliaas grew up in a village south of Oslo in the 1970s, watching English football from afar and playing make believe in the street. His friends would quarrel over who would be Kevin Keegan and who would be Kenny Dalglish. Selliaas wanted to be neither. He wanted to be Bob […]
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