Birmingham City finding out League One is ‘no walk in the park’

A look at the start to Blues’ season.

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00:00So Charlie starting with Birmingham City and obviously we quite anticipated their start

00:04to life in League One had to be quite you know good they started off with a draw against Reading

00:09who obviously were a championship side not so long ago as well so quite a positive start and

00:14then they've won the EFL Cup I know the EFL Cup early rounds aren't really you know spoke about

00:20too much but it's still good to get that that win over the line. Yeah I think the the cup win will

00:24give some confidence and the fact they had a red card as well at the end and that's a work card

00:28to get that one over the line that was great to see Brandon Keller becoming the first Punjabi

00:33player to score for Blues and what a goal it was as well outside the area opens up his body and

00:38curls it into that top corner a great celebration from him as well and just a very special moment

00:43for an academy player to be able to score a goal like that. I was at the game against Reading it

00:47was 1-1 in the end and I think quite disappointing in general because a lot of people came into that

00:53thinking okay Blues should maybe not walk all over Reading because they've got a decent starting 11

00:58but given Reading's financial position at the moment their lack of squad depth maybe lack of

01:02confidence around the club as well Blues should probably go and win that one but Reading came

01:07out the blocks a better team and they were clinical in the first half got the first goal

01:12with a great finish into the bottom right hand corner good through ball as well and Blues just

01:15weren't really sticking and had all of the ball but their attacks just weren't really flowing and

01:20you can expect that it's early signs under and early days under Chris Davies but I think fans

01:25were expecting a little bit more of course Alfie May did score the penalty in the end was it

01:29fortunate Emile Hansen crossing the ball in and a handball when the defender was trying to move

01:34his arm away it might have been a little bit fortunate for Blues but the penalty was given

01:38Alfie May conversed it and hearing the tilts and roar again was a good experience myself in the

01:43press box and I think fans will want to kick on now and get a point on the boards not the worst

01:48start but not quite what they would have expected. Yeah and just looking at the league one table you

01:53know going into it obviously we thought that Blues have got this you know aura around the club

01:58at the moment where the owners have invested well they're looking to go straight back up but

02:03you know if you look on a deeper level you know you see there's a lot of championship stalemates

02:08over the last five or ten years or so who are in this division and you know the more you look at

02:12it the more competitive it gets you know as the season goes on there's going to be some big tests

02:18for Blues what are the fans sort of feeling about that do you think? I think the fans as I said that

02:23they're kind of expecting that they go up straight away because why wouldn't they they've got the

02:26strongest team in the division they've got the most financial backing out of absolutely anybody

02:31spending multiple million on players in the league one is unheard of in the championship it's quite

02:35rare at lower level but in league one I mean that's that's ridiculous and they're still going

02:40they're bidding for players for two three million pounds they've already made 10 new additions most

02:44of those have been paid for as well so you would expect they go up straight away but this is league

02:50one it's a very unpredictable division we've seen the likes of Sunderland and Portsmouth get stuck

02:55down there in recent years for multiple seasons you've got Wrexham who are desperate to go up and

03:00they've got obviously Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney there and the whole series behind

03:04them you've got Bolton you've got Huddersfield and Rotherham want to go back up and it's going to be

03:09a tough task and Chris Davies has been reminding fans of this that league one is not a walk in the

03:13park and it's not going to happen straight away