Results tagged “blues” from Birmingham Post - Lifestyle Blog

Whatever David Sullivan and Karren Brady have done to attract the attention of the City of London Police and their football corruption enquiry here's a few things they've not done:

• Looked after the old fans in preference to corporate newcomers. I used to have a season ticket in the old Main Stand, great seats that we had way before Steve Bruce and the Prem became a possibility, and we were surrounded by people who'd had their seats for much longer. Then we had a letter telling us that those seats would become premium seats, and as such thousands of pounds a season. We were offered season tickets elsewhere in the ground, but at that time the ground was full and available seats were not in good supply. Our group of four decided against keeping up our season tickets. Although I still go down occasionally, I sit in the Kop and laugh at the empty (but now comfortably padded) seats opposite.
• Priced tickets reasonably for the opposition. While blues fans enjoy winding up villa fans, in a friendly way of course, charging £45 for an away fan to visit us isn't nice. It doesn't foster goodwill around the country. It's about money, the sort that football is both awash with and simultaneously moaning about not having enough of. The obsession with money that turns a play-off game into a "£50 million game" rather than one about glory, about promotion and struggle. Blues don't have to try so hard to be like that.



• Publicly denounced the 39th game idea. Although it was David Gold that ended up de facto spokesman for the stupid plan to add a Premier League game to be played abroad, after all the other club owners sensibly shuffled away, it wouldn't have taken much for either of these high-profile media figures to say "I don't think that's a great idea".

I'm not sure if it's impulsive, compulsive or simply a case of obsession, but I'm beginning to get serious withdrawal symptoms.

Think of something that adds a frisson to your life, that little bit extra that gives you a lift every now and then. You won't die without it, but life suddenly smiles if you can indulge.

It might be a menthol cigarette once a week, a bar of chocolate, an expensive wine, sex with a stranger. Actually, ignore that last one, I just put it to make me sound cool and dangerous, which all of us need to feel every now and then, and I'm just a tad fragile at the moment.