The Birmingham Courier
Squad14 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Joel Tabiner out for 14 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Birmingham will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A one-man rearguard from James Beadle
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Nikoli Degtiarev: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Birmingham have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Birmingham
Ibrahim Osman and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Birmingham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Myles Lewis-Skelly is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Luis Vázquez in the eights
A performance of 8.34 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Dael Fry gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Jay Stansfield runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Dec 2026
Birmingham caught on 94 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Hull City scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
In brief
- Match Birmingham and Hull City take a point apiece
- Market A long bet from Birmingham on Christopher Hunter
- The dugout The view from the dugout