The Birmingham Courier
Match4 Nov 2026
Cup progress for Birmingham
A 3‑3 win over Tottenham, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Birmingham's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Birmingham has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ryan Allsop decides it from twelve yards
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Market9 Nov 2026
Bright Osayi-Samuel puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Birmingham, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Patrick Roberts
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Babis Kostoulas in the eights
A performance of 8.82 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match7 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Birmingham against Fulham
0‑1 to Fulham, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Lee Gregory in the eights
A performance of 8.23 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Ethan Laird
- Player ratings The one thing August Priske could not do
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about James Beadle