After a week of bitchiness and carping that has seen the chairman angrily deny fiscal irregularities and the manager trade pointless barbs with outgoing loanee Caleb Folan, it will be a welcome relief to focus only on a football game.
Birmingham City visit the KC Stadium for a game that both sides think they can take something from. Only goal difference separates the sides in the embryonic 2009/2010 Premier League table, both have four points from five games so far. The Bluenoses lie 15th having conceded two more than they’ve scored, City are 17th with a minus seven difference thanks largely to the 5-1 lesson from Spurs, though losing 4-1 at Sunderland didn‘t help. A good performance today though, could elevate the Tigers table standing somewhat.
Anthony Gardner is a perpetual doubt and Steven Mouyokolo’s hamstring is twanging like a laggy band, so Zayatte and Sonko should be the defences heart once more. Dean Marney is available to run around a lot in front of the back four however, having not been seen since opening day when he twisted his knee at Stamford Bridge. In amongst the talk of late accounts and Boro-bound forwards has been some bigging up of unwieldy monikered striker Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, who is touted for a first league start for City.
As for Birmingham, they have been ordering extensively from the catalogue of injuries, a tome filled with only marginally less desirable and costly items than you’d get from Argos. Franck Queudrue, James McFadden , Cameron Jerome, Martin Taylor, Marcus Bent and Gregory Vignal are all crocked, with Damien Johnson and Lee Carsley listed as doubtful.
Tickets are available, you should go.
Ever the crowd pleaser, Deano complies with requests to write on peoples clothes…. 
