It's Not Over Yet for Birmingham City…Not By a Long Shot

It's been a long time, I've resisted this season to write anything because I knew how it would pan out.

I love my team, don't get me wrong, I will love them 'til I die. Love them over my betrothed, that's how much they mean to me, even when things don't go according to plan.

Which they haven't.

Some how, we've been playing absolute garbage all season yet we're second in the Championship. Does this mean the standard of the league is slipping? No, it does not.

It just means that Birmingham City, the strongest squad on paper in the Championship, has managed to bluff their way to an automatic promotion spot by pure chance.

I may be a dreamer, along with 20,000 other fans, in thinking that we could be a force in the Premiership, but at the end of the day I'm also a realist, and I know that if we get promoted, we will face an uphill struggle just to consolidate our position.

We've been there a couple of times, the first year we survived with our "up and at 'em" attitude, but this bred expectation amongst the fans.

Maybe we could qualify for the UEFA Cup. Yes, we could, one day, not yet though. Under Alex McLeish and the Gold brothers we have more potential than we ever had under Steve Bruce.

Karren Brady can slag us off as much as she wants in her tabloid column. She knows the score, she knows the die'hard Bluenose will never give up.

Let's never forget where we come from and who we are. We are the perennial underdogs. We are Birmingham City. We will fight them on the beaches and we will fight with growing strength in the air.

We will never surrender. Bring on the dingles...We will journey on, tho the way be long. We'll be there, at the end of the road.