Inside Birmingham’s feel-good relegation, with ticket sales UP, wages at staggering level and ambitious plans for future IF EVER there was a feel-good reaction to being relegated from the Championship, Birmingham had it last year.
"If we got promoted, even to the Premier League, if we had the Premier League TV money we wouldn’t be in the bottom few teams in that league.
Manager Chris Davies was allowed to spend £20m on a squad rebuild, including a new League One transfer record to bring in striker Jay Stansfield from Fulham for an initial £12m rising to £15m.
Birmingham are already working on attracting more eight to 14-year-olds to games as they feel there has been a ‘lost generation’ of fans who were fed up of seeing them tread water under a Far Eastern ownership that appeared detached from supporters.
You could have forgiven supporters for venting their anger after a season which saw them use four managers and drop into League One.
