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They are fond of playing welcome in The Jungle by Guns N’s Roses at St andrew’s, which is a suitable option with the club’s preparation for Badlands One this season. But the promotion was achieved in a quiet manner. Birmingham City see up again.

During the era of Chris Davis, Birmingham won their return to the championship with six games to spare it. They already have 95 points, the first league scored from 103 all unable to inevitably. The best scorers with the best defensive record, no one can live with them.

Their dominance method is well clarified through the statistics of possession. The Blues had more than 67 percent of the ball this season, which is the best since they started collecting such records for the first league in more than a decade. In fact, the great aspects of Manchester City in Pep Guardiola only improved the first four levels during this period.

It is a kind of some kind for club owners, the American company KnightHead Capital Management, among them the legend of the American Football Association Tom Brady, a minority investor. Looking at resources and ambition, the drop should not occur in this first season.

Harsh lessons have been learned. John Johnas’s getting rid of the mistake of the highest mistake in the ruling on shifting to Wayne Rooney before he was forced to get a serious disease to move away. Gary Roulette could not keep it. It was chaos.

The supporters were frustrated, but they admitted that the possibilities remained. They have seen infrastructure improvements. Not only is the big talk about the stadium of 60,000 and a quarter of an athlete in what is a relatively continuous part of the city, but the small things.

More than 15 million pounds has been spent on infrastructure projects throughout the summer, with total spending more than 35 million pounds since KnightHead investments in July 2023, after spending a million pounds alone to improve the stadium before that. It was an urgent need to inject money.

There were only two showering in the dressing room when they arrived. These details have been neglected. It is important, not only players who have an improved environment but also supporters. The match day has turned.

The newly -resulted fans can include 1,200 supporters, and despite freedom of entry, the research shows that the average spending for all fans on the day of the match is now 700 percent, with the area with the capacity of each home game, the waiting lists make up several hours before its launch.

It was renamed as st andrew’s @ KNIGHTHEAD PARK, a visit there is a different experience these days. It is completely open for beginners, and it accommodates approximately 30,000 again. It is the atmosphere, live music, fans park, all of which makes it a place where people want to be again.

He said that when Davis asked about this in the summer, he said: “It was the level of the organization, which has emerged for me. They are really experienced and very ambitious but they have a real plan as well. It is not just a state of PIPDREAM.”

The results on the field reflected that the improved mood. It was not done cheap. Jay Standfield signature for 15 million pounds more than a four -way transfer record in the league, but the famous striker was very important as an intention to the club’s supporters.

And do not reduce the work that Davis has done to bring late clarity. It was a fantastic but shrewd option, the right man at the right time. This is the first function of Davies in management, but he has extensive experience as Brendan Rodgers for a long time before strengthening his development under Anngkogoglu in Tottenham.

Speaking to Davis in 2023, he talked about his time in the passes account as a child watching Watford and being sold in the possession game. “People say it is pure,” said Guardiola’s style. “I do not agree mainly.” For Davis, this was pure pragmatism.

He led his thinking throughout this season, even when some supporters urged him to follow the approach of more than Gung-Ho. “I think this is the most effective way to play,” I repeated when you talk to him on the eve of this campaign. “This is what I believe in.”

He knew the challenge awaiting us. The opponents who were superior to making it difficult as they could. “If the opponent is just a kind of sitting in a block, we must make them run a way,” he explained. Patience was always necessary.

He added: “The idea is that if you can circulate the ball and extend the opposition, and do so at a good speed, then the gaps inside will open at the end.

Thus, this was a tight offer to excel mostly. Ben Davis added, on loan from Rangers, a great head at the back alongside Christophe Clarier. Tomoki Iuata remained in front of them. Defensive, it was solid rock.

Perhaps it is surprising that Birmingham did not win a match with three goals even after the beginning of the year and did not score four in a match until February. But they did not need. From August, they won seven on the first time in the league since 1946.

After setting a defeat to Bottom Club Shrewsbury in November, they responded by winning eight in a row in all competitions, and reached its peak in victory on the boxing day in front of a crowd of sale at ST Andrew’s. Davis talked about his team becoming a different animal.

This feeling of the side is still improving, it is clear that four of the Sharr Conserber for the second time, then hit Barnesley for six, is a source of optimism. Kishi Anderson has opened narrow defenses. Kiran Doyle improved attack groups. Willum Willumsson, with a deceptive hidden touch, adapts.

It was an educational experience for them all in these most profitable classes. They are already 53 games in, 39 Won, and the most played with a goal on their back, the Team to win. There is still the Wembley Final in The Vertu Trophy on Sunday.

In the 150th anniversary of Bermengham, the double works. Although the heroes of this campaign may not be able to banks on a mural to accompany Trevor Francis photos, the presence of Pelingham along the Katil Road, the momentum with the club again.

What comes after that? This is the question of everyone’s lips in Birmingham. Davis talks about “taking the club on a trip” and knows that expectations will not disappear in the championship. “If you are thinking about slowing down, you are in the wrong club.”

Will they be able to play this way against better opposition? “We play a very specific style and do not imagine wholesale changes. We played against Newcastle in the FA Cup and the principles were the same but I was aware that the game would look different.”

It seemed different. Birmingham had the lowest statistics of possession in the season to see less than 40 percent of the ball. But IWata is still scoring Screamer, and ST Andrew assembled the team while pushing them to the Premier League team along the five -goal movie.

“On the one hand, there were modifications that we had to make to prepare for this game. This is an example of the upper -level opposition and small adaptations. Moving forward, it is a state of seeing what the challenge is and ensuring its preparation accordingly.

“A principle for me to try to be aggressive and press. I think this is very important and essential for how I want to play the team. Then try to dominate possession as well, I don’t think I am not sending away from that.

“But I never look at it,” I just want to look this way. “This is the most effective, and that’s all it is. If I think the most effective thing is a long kick or a counter -attack, I will not have any problem in doing this. It is a game. It revolves around finding the best way to play.”

As the chanting of Tilton Road’s position, Davis knew exactly what Birmingham needed this year. The demand, as their most famous song, is that this club maintains the right. They are outside the forest, but the journey continues.