Despite defeat, Birmingham City's FA Cup tie proves they are on the right path... their ambitious owners group - including Tom Brady - are light years ahead of their incompetent predecessors, writes IAN HERBERT It’s a half hour walk from Birmingham New Street station up to St Andrew’s and that’s enough of an acquaintance with the city to understand the depth of its unfulfilled potential.
There were reports heading into Saturday’s game of Wagner wanting to lay a tunnel from New Street to the new stadium at a cost of £20million.
At the site of the city’s old Bird’s Custard factory, on the way up to the stadium, stands the John F Kennedy Memorial mosaic, Birmingham’s most visible American link.
Knighthead Capital have proposed a new stadium complex, costing up to £3bn, that would be completed in four years.
Their plan is a ‘Sports Quarter’ including a new Blues stadium and training ground in the Bordesley Green area of the city.
