Birmingham City - A Decade of Failure 

Blues fan here, first vid of yours I've watched. Thought you got most of it pretty spot on, the club's been in decline for years and years, we've used miracles to avoid the drop before, and to be fair I'm just glad when we did finally go we went under these owners. People will look at the Rooney decision and make their own minds up, but for blues fans it's more positive than it's been for most of my memory as an early 20's fan. Okay, Brady is mostly a figure for promotion and exposure as much as I can tell, and okay, the new stadium complex would be amazing but ambitious, but if we look outside of that, we've got plenty of reasons to be positive: 1) They've already invested £30m into the infrastructure at the stadium and training grounds. The stadium needed the stands repairing, but to say they gave it a lick of paint is an understatement. They did do that, but also completely ripped out the reception, turned several boxes into an top class bar for hospitality, revamped the home dressing room completely, and completely changed the outside of the kop stand to look really good now. I could list all the things they've done but it'd be a book, and this summer it'll rise to around £55m invested in infrastructure with work already underway to fix the PA system, add in wifi, re-do a load of the hospitality, create a new bar under the kop, create two fanzones outside the ground and more. This all, by the way, for a ground they plan to leave in the next 5-7 years. 2) They've recognised the importance of the fans, putting on ticket offers when possible (both Norwich and Coventry at home were basically £15 a ticket anywhere in the ground), they continue to put money behind bars around the ground at home but even on some away days too. They've opened up supporters clubs to allow fans a voice and opportunities to meet people at the club like the CEO, play on the pitch at St Andrews, etc. And they've put on quarterly "Open House" meetings for a reduced number of fans to attend and see their plans for the club unveiled (this is where the stadium news was announced). These are also streamed in their entirety free for all fans to watch. 3) They've massively increased the revenues of the club from what they were, recognising that the old owner's approach of cutting costs was killing the club where they focused on increasing revenue. This is included in big sponsorship deals with Undefeated, an american streetwear brand (that now also sells some mint Blues merch), and the Knighthead parent company to invest up to almost £10m a year on the FFP books depending on social media impressions (works great when you have someone like Tom Brady on board and Paik Seung-Ho playing for you drawing plenty of impressions from Korean fans). They said recently that (had we stayed in the league) we were on track to have the highest revenues in the championship outside of parachute payment clubs by the end of next season, allowing us to spend more on higher quality players. 4) Finally, as I know this is a long read, they publicly recognised their mistake in timing when sacking Eustace to appoint Rooney, and vowed to "never disrupt positive momentum ever again". In fact, this question was raised at the open house and they could've ignored it but actively chose to respond to it and own their mistake. They also noted the improvements to the process of making such decisions in an effort to never repeat a mistake like that. We may have gone down, but we have every reason in the world to be optimistic about the future under our owners, beyond the flashy headlines.

I mean fair play, the blues board said they'd get out of the championship this season, and they delivered!

Hiring Wayne Rooney has to be the dumbest decision in their recent history.

What's weird is that Hull City looked at what happened to Birmingham City and were like "Hold my beer". Reached 7th place with Rosenior after some dismal seasons prior, and now they've sacked Rosenior and will probably be right back down the bottom the table next season

2030: Birmingham City in there new 60,000 seater stadium plays Solihull Moors in League one.

I'm a rare Villa fan who wasn't happy to see the Blues go down. They're our rivals but I want them up in the Premier League with us. Want the derby days back, and it'd just be better for the city having two top teams in the Prem. Hope the owners turn it around next season

A video about 1. FC Köln would be interesting as I am wondering what is going on there.

The thing is too. Relegation could potentially be a great thing for them. They've got a chance to rebuild, and come back stronger. Sure, not everyone can have that. But it'll give a chance of Blues to rebuild, and get better. Just look at Ipswich, they spent years in the Championship, got relegated, and now they're in the PL. Again, not all stories end good. But it shows, relegation isn't the end, it could potentially, be the start of something great.

"Birmingham City won the League Cup in 2011 and got relegated from the Premier League that same year." Two years later, Wigan Athletic won the FA Cup and got relegated from the Premier League in just 3 days. Both teams have since then never made a Premier League return.

I don’t understand how Birmingham screwed this up and the funny thing is this was never even Tom Brady’s fault

I'll never forget watching that Carling Cup win on the BBC in 2011.

That Wembley of the Midlands will look fine in League One.

As a Wolves fan, me and my dad didn't celebrate them getting relegated, it was abit sad seeing how the club has suffered so many things. It was like watching a colossus crumbling down into pieces. everything didn't go the way they wanted in the last matches, and for the first time ever since 1995, they are now down to league 1. Hopefully they'll come back to the championship league

Sacking a manager who was challenging for at least Playoffs, it felt like relegation was inevitable.

Birmingham city fan here, I’ve been watching your content for a while, well said and spoken mate like always. I am a younger supporter of the club so the first season I remember going to a match was is 16/17. I’ve been supporting the club and watching games for a while but never really took a major interest in it. This season was where it clicked for me, I’d check the score every week I knew the squad and I got really involved in the sport. Anyway, although I don’t know much before 16/17 What I will say is it was coming, we were going to something happpen to us eventually and through lots of events, having 6 mangers all with a diffent/modified style of play can definitely make it’s harder. But great video none the less. We will be back UTB

Who in their right mind would appoint someone like Wayne Rooney who is not cut out to be a manager?? Now I know why BCFC deserved to be relegated to League One.

Even as a Baggies fan, i was sad to see them go down. As much as we hate each others clubs in the west midlands, there is a sense of enjoying each others company as all four of us bounce around the top two divisions in the country. Without Blues in the mix, it simply won't feel the same :/

One of the most enjoyable watches of your recent videos as a villa fan

As a Blues fan you've hit the nail on the head, its been such a rollercoaster of emotions season and that final day was heart breaking but also gave a sense of hope that we might come back with some life, would also be nice to see us win a league. Might be the slap in the face we needed.

I can hear the Villa fans laughing and cheering from here 💀

pisses me off when rooney said we never backed him, every single game we chanted wayne rooneys blue army and EVERY single goal (wasn’t many) we sung his name over and over again

Something tells me the thing that bothers Birmingham supporters the most is that Villa are almost certain to play in the Champions League next season

Great video Liam, Its refreshing to see someone actually do their research when discussing us and our recent history. I've been a blues fan since 2010, My first full season was the League Cup winning season, One of the best moments of my life coinciding with relegation and since then its been an absolute chore to support my football club. These owners have been absolutely fantastic, Clearing our over £100 million worth of debt, Investing £20 million rebuilding St Andrews alone and we've seen and heard more from them this season than we ever did from the previous ownership, Their one mistake in sacking John Eustace ended up being a costly one, however, I truly believe they'll take us to where they want us to go and if that means a season in league one so be it. I'm not going to be as silly as to underestimate league one and think we'll walk it but I'm looking forward to potentially finishing above 17th for once. One thing on Rooney, He seemed to listen to the vocal minority that were against him and ignored the thousands chanting his name every week. He really didn't help himself, Calling out players publicly, not even acknowledging our fans home or away and I don't feel the need to address the 2 wins in 15. I personally loved him as a player and was desperate for him to succeed, cause why would we want your own manager to do well. Great video once again and KRO.

Dumping a manager when the team was in the playoff spots to bring in Rooney, who’s done nothing as a manager was the beginning of their downfall.

As a villa fan, it's beautiful

*_Another great video, Viz_*

As a blues fan I think that although the Rooney appointment was disastrous, the Mowbray appointment was great and if it wasn’t for his illness I have no doubts we would’ve stayed up. We also had 50 points by the end a total that is supposed to be the safety threshold in the championship and with these new owners I’m confident we are in a better position for the future than every championship club bar the ones with parachute payments, we just have to keep right on!

On one note, BCFC will now correspond to the highest - Bristol City Football Club 😎

Very accurate throughout tbh, been a very tough few yrs for us as fans but I feel if we learn from the mistakes of last season and bring the right sort of players and people into the club we can return to the top soon

Blues fan here! This video is absolutely right, I just hope we can reset now! KRO! Loved this video :) keep it uppp

thank you so much for making this video, im a bluenose, but i never experienced the carling cup as i was 4 when it happend, since i was 5 ive been going down season ticket every year, been away and home, alot of things have happend this season to be positive about, i can really only remember us doing bad, over the last 5 years we have had the most losses, its hard specially when i say i support blues and get abuse by everyone as you are so shit. but this religation was going to happen so thank god it did this season, if it was last season i dont think we would of had a club, the owners wich you touched opon where so bad, we suffered just like luton,bolton,scunthorpe anyone who has had bad owners we can relate, except for relegation till now.( we didnt even have hot water) now these owners admitted they wouldnt have bought us if we got relegated last season, but they have been amazing i just hope i can see my team win for once kro biggest team in league one, hopefully i might be on Netflix!

Love your videos! 🫶🏻

Your prints are amazinggg!!! KRO

Watched your video with great interest, what a great analysis of Blues troubled season you put together, definitely got a future in the media! Good luck for next season Blues, let’s get you back in the premiership playing local derby’s again with my villa team!

this was a pleasure to watch as a Villa fan thanks mate

I can't wait to see Wrexham v Birmingham City in League One next season!

These owners value popularity and what will get in the news headlines over success.

The very first premier league game i went to was in December of 05 was a Manchester City v. Birmingham City game in the City of Manchester stadium city won 4-1 i still have the ticket stub i got flown over from Brooklyn by a really good friend's dad who was from Manchester as a 18th birthday present for me and his son since we hadn't seen each other for almost 4 years

Maybe the new owners thought there was a draft lottery at the end and they can tank to get a better place at the bottom. It's funny because I'm a Villa fan and I'm loving that they are down to league 1

Gulf between Aston Villa and BCFC just gets wider and wider

Derby fan here. Top work Viz

Gotta make this video for Burnley too

Yes a vizeh video!!

The only thing it has going is that it had the streetwear label Undefeated as its shirt sponsor. I used to buy their stuff all the time.

Next season with us playing Wrexham does this mean we're now official Disney bad guys (couldn't bring myself to call us villains)

As a blues fan I refute the claim that we didn’t accept Rooney, and I’ve been very annoyed with his quotes in the press since suggesting he deserved more time etc. After a rocky start, the board asked for patience and we saw one or two moments of it clicking, and the crowd largely got behind him and the team. It was another 11/12 games after that request for confidence when the fans started turning on him because we’d seen nothing to be hopeful about, and we were fast approaching the transfer window. Additionally, It was only really the last game where they chanted Rooney out for everyone to hear.

Good analysis Viz. been watching for years and I’m not one to usually comment but I had to as it’s my club 🤣 I really cannot believe how bipolar my club is. How we’ve managed to get relegated after all the new ownership hype is literally typical Blues. I agree with you that a season in League One could hopefully be the reset we need and get momentum and actually go on winning runs for once 😅 P.S also honestly when’s our Netflix show coming it would be so entertaining! 😂

SO I JUST WOKE UP IN A FUCKING STEAMY MOOD YEAH reference

Posh fan here - you’ll find a good quality of football in League One and less pressure - unless you get into the play-offs. Time to take a breather from The Championshio, and still enjoy some good football.

Good work on the blues 💙 yes spot on all round M8 and yes we be back and it might just be a blessing as they a song about that up back up win the cup kick FOCK out the ville oh yes and we will...so just keep a👁️on us M8 .. thanks Gaz💙BCFC OK.

We’ll be back💙

It’s a very unfortunate situation, but as a Stockport fan I’m excited to visit Birmingham City

3:50 - Just on this as well, we were relegated on 39 points. Since the 2011 season, no other team has been relegated when achieving that amount of points. If you had 39 points, you would have been safe in every single season since

Hope you and the family are doing well dude.

Cant lie, the UNDFTD sponsor is super cool. It makes the Karmaloop-ing highschooler in me smile

what’s the font you use at the start of the video?

Great video. Didn't stop laughing the entire time. SOTC

Great vid

As a Villa fan, I truly dont wish relegation on any team having experienced it. Including Rivals. I'll relish and have banter, but overall, I want both Birmingham clubs to perform to the best of their ability.

Sheffield Wednesday made an impressive recovery!

Learned about Birmingham when they sign chucho Benitez !

Wagner is great. When we went to liecester away in the cup he out £45,000 behind one of the bars and regularly made drinks cheaper around the ground. Just little things that would never had happened before

Keep right on

Not as worse as mine! My team Hamburger SV did worse! They choked the Promotion again! To make matters worse, They lost to Osnabrauk twice, and lost to elversburg! To make it more ridiculous, They bottled it towards every spring of the season since their first relegation! They lost to smaller teams, they lost the playoff twice, they sack the recent manager, we even lost back to back 3-4 home loss! The worse of all, Small teams gets promoted while Big teams like HSV, Schalke, Dusseldorf, etc. STRUGGLED!

I feel bad for the fans, because they are a proper oldschool fanbase, but on the other hand, it is satisfying to see them go down because of a choice that everyone knew was not going to work.

As a Derby fan, loving this after the way their fans reacted to us nearly going bust. Secret agents Rowett, Eustace and Rooney knew the assignment.

I honestly thought when they posted the L1 line up image on twitter it was L2 by mistake, we look so out of place it’s not even funny. I’ve ran through the requisite stages of grief, now I’m looking forward to new grounds to go to (If I can even get a ticket), apart from Charlton, Barnsley & possibly Bolton they’re all gone be tiny allocations. Remember having fun 30 years ago as a kid when we were this low…BRING IT ON. Say what you want about Rooney, but our impressions went through the roof!!!

The bigger thing was Tony Mowbray getting sick, and having his assistant Mark Venus come in. Somehow Venus was significantly worse than Rooney and the club should’ve gone straight to Rowett.

Different goals for them next season at least, surely they push for promotion, might be more exciting for the fans than being mid table in the championship. Good luck Birmingham 👍

I liked Birmingham City in the PL. A good enough team in their day to beat any of the Big 6 on par with Stoke City which is another club I really miss in the Premier League. Weird to think both Joselu and Bellingham both played for these clubs at one point!

Friendly reminder: Birmingham City have won a major trophy more recently than Tottenham or Everton.

this hurt

about huddersfield town mext

The first sentence describes Birmingham itself 😂

Good vid. No one at Blues wanted Rooney, but almost everyone gave him their full backing in the hope he would pull it off. If you take the pints that Eustace, Mowbray and Rowett’s points over a whole season Blues would have finished a creditable 8th, and that with all the disruption of changing managers. The problem was Rooney’s tenure, pure and simple. You can blame the owners and Rooney for relegation.

I feel for the fans . John eustace stayed up . Board of directors

I really thought Birmingham would stay up if they won on the final day. How could they not get help in at least one of the other three matches? Excellent point that the bottom 5 teams in the table all won on the final day, which is nuts.

As a Birmingham city fan it’s sad to see our city rivals in the champions league while we are going to be in the same league as wrexham it’s just getting worse and worse and worse for us ,and we would probably be mid table if we didn’t sack John eustace

9:05 Really enjoy your Videos. Just one minor detail. Would be great if you could make some parts a bit easier to understand for football fans who don't know English football by heart. As a German, I had to pause the video for a moment and think about it to remember that conference is the fifth English league. Carry on.

About Birmingham's relegation to League One, the owners really have to take the blame for themselves, no doubt about that. However, I think what cost them at the end was the two draws away from home against Rotherham United and Huddersfield Town. If you look at their home record this season, they are 9th out of 24 teams with 36 points, but away from home was terrible, just 14 points out of the possible 69 (23rd in the away table). To think they got relegated with 50 points is mental. The 6th team ever in the Championship era to suffer relegation despite getting 50+ points. We actually go from Bolton Wanderers just surviving in the Championship 2017/18 with just 43 points to Birmingham City suffering relegation in the Championship 2023/24 with 50 points.

Do one on huddersfield im just depressed rn

Despite what’s happened in the past decade, we are now entering the most exciting period of our clubs history with our new owners, up the blues 💙

Tbf as a blues fan im trying to see the positives 😂 were in desperate need of a complete rebuild, potentially a league and cup double and a hell of challenge for the fm25 😂

Dear Wayne Rooney, Your managerial career is, for the time being, over. You honestly would have a better chance at this point becoming a professional boxer. Sincerely, the EFL Football Fan Community

I can’t lie, the season we went down is probably my favourite championship season.

“Giofranco Zola”

great videos, would be great if you could make your voice louder compared to the rest of the audio, i listen on 100% volume and still cant hear you properly

Bradys only involvement was probably sending Alex Guerrero over there.

4:30 And this is coming from a Burnley fan which always has bare empty seats 😂😂

I actually met Tom Wagner at a pub it’s a blues pub ofc i got a photo with him I gave him a blues bage and his body guard followed him into the toilet 😂

Video 3 of asking can you add more Luka Modric things on the shop

Imagine hiring Wayne Rooney after he got sacked from DC United, an MLS team

Problem is if they fail to get promoted next season the new owners will likely sell up. They have bought a business they don’t understand

next season we lose probably more then 10 of our players... i hope the new rebuild is good

Such a big club got all the ambition in the world second city, big fanbase and passionate fans. These owners will get them back to the prem, they might do an Ipswich and win back to back promotion.

Birmingham City are just out here taking every L in the book

Decade of surviving until the mighty greens come along and send them down!!!!

Do a Sheffield Wednesday great escape vid?

I am west Bromwich Albion fan, and to be honest I think the blues board dropped a massive mistake by taking on Wayne Rooney. I have tried to understand how they could sack eustace after the blues battered us 3-1. But sadly they have been at the bottom of the championship for a number of years. Maybe it will be a good thing the club, as they can refocus and rebuild

Sacking John Eustace for Rooney is relegation worthy. The irony of Eustace relegating them was kinda funny. Appointing a big name doesn't guarantee success. I feel bad for their fans. They don't deserve this