[theo_luddite]

Had a Blue Nose in the house fixing some steamed up double glazing this morning.

He asked if we should have kept Wagner (when he'd already decided to leave anyway) but never mentioned the poison dwarf from L666s moving in at theirs. Then again, might not have known.

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https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/f...v-20198400

Bit more than favourite apparently

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From the Brum Mail.

Football goes in cycles – in Birmingham City’s case very, very quick, all-too-often repeated cycles.

Gary Rowett not big enough a household name? Let’s bring in Gianfranco Zola. Gianfranco Zola too unproven a manager? Let’s tend to that with the most experienced of them all, welcome Harry Redknapp.

‘Arry not enough of a coach? Arise Steve Cotterill, the strategist behind Harry’s successful relegation campaign, the keys to the empire are yours. Cotterill not mobilising the fans? Here comes Garry Monk, the ultimate preacher of the ‘One Club’ philosophy.

Been burned by English managers? Let’s try Pep Clotet and Aitor Karanka.

And so it goes round and round, not just at Blues but at most football clubs, with the next managerial appointment being the antithesis of what’s gone before.

That doesn’t mean Lee Bowyer has been brought in merely because he’s the opposite of the detached and ultra-conservative Karanka – he’s a decent manager with the capacity to become a very good one too.

Hmmmm - 2 and 1/2 year contract but has to keep them up. So potentially 2 years pay for a disappointing end to the season then.

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Chinese Chip Shop owners - they'll work it out one day.