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A 2024 review for Birmingham City as Blues look likely to have fantastic 2025
National World - LocalTV
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08/01/2025
Birmingham City have had an up and down last 12 months, so what’s the story of their 2024 and can they be positive for the future as they sit at the peak of League One and are chasing promotion back to the Championship, at the first time of asking.
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On to Birmingham City, now obviously we've discussed, it's been a massive year of change
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at the club, a sort of new era has come in, you know it's a strange relegation situation
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for them because all the fans seemed the most positive I've ever seen a fan base after going
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down, which means they are sort of buying into this new project from the American owners
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and the sort of consortium that have taken them into this new era, they've changed the
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stadium name, they've made upgrades all around the place, they've had a few managers come
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in this year, Wayne Rooney's spell as we said before doesn't really seem real like it actually
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happened, it was quite a crazy time for Blues, but they've gone down and they are looking
00:43
like they're going to go straight back up, how do you sort of review 2024 because it's
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been a bit of a mixed bag at Birmingham City?
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It's been absolutely bonkers to be honest, Wayne Rooney lasting just a couple of days
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at the start of the year of 2024, of course a couple of months before that as well, a
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disaster management spell from them and John Eustace going a few months earlier, you see
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how well he's doing at Blackburn now with limited resources in the playoff positions
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that Blues wish they held onto him, but that's not how it turned out, Tony Mowbray started
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well but unfortunately illness stopped him from carrying on, Gary Rowett coming in as
01:14
well towards the end of the season, wasn't quite enough, Blues go down and as you mentioned
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a really strange atmosphere because it was almost relief that finally these years of
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championship football, battling relegation and hardly breaking or never breaking into
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the top half and just the relentlessness of it all has come to an end and this season
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the investment in the summer has really boosted the football club, a complete overhaul of
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the squad, Chris Davies has come in, his first proper management job after being an assistant
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at a host of clubs under Brendan Rodgers, he's really impressed and just the unity at
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the football club, the excitement, the atmosphere at St Andrews at Nighthead Park as well and
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sell out crowds for the first time in such a long while, title as well, that'd be great
01:57
to get some silverware at the club and push on and hopefully be in a better position in
02:01
the championship, but I genuinely think that if they stayed in the championship their progress
02:07
and their potential journey to the Premier League would have taken longer than it would
02:10
by going down, which is a strange statement to make but they're on track to get promoted
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at the first time of asking and the squad is capable of great things, so very impressed
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by Birmingham this year.
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Yeah, there have obviously been some fantastic additions, Tomoki Iwata has been fantastic,
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you know obviously coming in the summer, as you look back at over 2024 who's been the
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best player in the blue shirt do you think?
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I think Jay Stansfield sticks out winning all the individual awards last season and
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starting this campaign as well, but Christian Bielek actually, maybe towards the end of
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last year could have been a little bit better but it wasn't just his fault, it was the fault
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of the football club and the disarray, this season he's proven to be one of the best players
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in League One, if not the best and I think he's definitely top of championship quality,
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a great leader, playing in a variety of positions, what a player Bielek has become for Birmingham.
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