I imagine that Jovan will be on the bench to start the game. This shold be a good Birmingham Derby. Aston Villa has had the upper-hand for a long time in this derby. Mabye Jovan can come on and help change that. Birmingham won the first game at their stadium 3-0. There is a free trial for audio at http://world.blues.premiumtv.co.uk/default.asp If you want to listen, remember to cancel after the game. Here is a link for a free webcast through the Aston Villa site: http://www.socceraudio.com/england.htm#VILLA With a win Aston Villa would have 38 points and be in 11 or 12th place, while a win for Birmingham would give them 32 points, and still in 16 place, but they would be 6 points out of the relegation battle. Anyone know how this Monday Night Football is doing in the UK? I remember an article a while back on soccernet.com about Friedel and Monday Night Football, but nothing since.
The announcers are talking about how this game gives an oppourtunity for the city of Birmingham to show that they can have a high-level game without fan violence. They have mentioned it about four times.
What's up w/ JK? He hasn't played in several weeks. Is he injured? He started off strong. But, now he is nowhere to be found.
Bruce has just preferred other players to use on the bench. And as boring the first half was, the second half as been wild. Two goals, two red cards, pitch invasions, and Robbie Savage playing peacemaker.
wow this game is nuts... dublin and joey icelandic red carded in second half, enckleman with another blunder as birmingham scores, fans invade pitch, horsfield who scored a goal is now playing goalie in ian bennet's jersey for nico vaesen after he got hurt, lazirdis scores first goal in 70 something games
villa-blues i couldn't get a ticket for the game & it's just as well as where I site was at the centre of a load of trouble. Blues fans had got seats in Villa areas of the ground & were provoking a lot of fighting. A mate just phoned me to say that it's gone seriuosly nasty outside the stadium to. UP THE VILLA
gotta love derbies... especially birmingham derbies. if there isn't at least one pitch invasion or an ejection due to a random act of violence it just ain't right.
2-0 Birmingham City Wins.. 2nd half was real nuts. The goalie blunder was real high school looking. Well, I should appologize to most high school players for that. It was also a bad play by the defender to head it back to the goalie at that time. Oh wait. I looked at it again. The defender didn't even get to it. He didn't hustle as well as he could have.
Jovan scored a goal in the midweek reserves game. from Soccertimes.com "American attacker Jovan Kirovski scored a goal for the Birmingham City reserves midweek in a 2-0 decision over Sunderland reserves 2-0. Kirovski found net with a 25-yard free kick just before the first half ended, beating keeper Mart Poom. It remains to be seen if he will dress with the first team for tomorrow's meeting with Aston Villa."
I would love to see West Brom and Birmingham stay up and have Wolves promoted too. Then there would be a ton of Birmingham-area derbies.
I've been hoping for that as well. It'd be good to have more midlands clubs in the top flight. Can we get Coventry back up there soon? I've said all along, as long as Birmingham stays up, then I'll root for Albion as well. It looks rather dire for WBA, however. I suppose I'll have to root for the Wolves to get promoted. Those derbies will have less of the passion of Villa-Brum, but not too much less.