The Birmingham Courier
Market24 Apr 2028
Jonathan Panzo is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Birmingham is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Carlos Vicente is carrying Birmingham
12 goals and a season average of 7.48. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match22 Apr 2028
The wait goes on for Birmingham
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Carlos Vicente in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Birmingham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Nathaniel Clyne falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match22 Apr 2028
Birmingham come up short against Stoke City
Stoke City left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Carlos Vicente runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Apr 2028
One of our own: Oliver Kelly joins the Birmingham first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Oliver Kelly is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Apr 2028
One of our own: Adam Smith joins the Birmingham first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Adam Smith is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Timothy Henderson joins the Birmingham first team
- Squad No hiding place for Adrián Suárez
- Player ratings An afternoon Jay Stansfield will want back