Birmingham City vs Sunderland AFC - Feb 2004

[Nockya]

Birmingham City vs Sunderland AFC game.

The lads travel to a revamped St Andrews today and it's a full house with 2000 plus Sunderland fans standing in the seated area!
Birmingham is managed by ex-Sunderland boss, Tony Mowbray.
The fans will be shouting for Tony Mowbray and he knows that we didn't want him to leave the club, so no animosity there.

Mowbray knows the lads inside out, so he will be telling his players what to expect.
He also knows some of our players only need one booking to get a ban, Luke O'Nien is one of those.

The team news for today:

Sunderland AFC starting XI: Patterson, Hume, Ballard, O’Nien, Hjelde, Neil, Ekwah, Bellingham, Mundle, Clarke, Burstow.
SAFC Substitutes: Bishop, Pembele, Seelt, Rigg, Ba, Aouchiche, Kelly, Rusyn, Hemir.

Burstow is playing up front, so I wonder what dividends this brings.
The Black Cats are tenth in the Championship while The Blues are 18th.
On paper again, Sunderland should win!

[Crawford]

Haway the lads.
2-0, come on!

[Nockya]

Jack Clarke

1-0 to the lads!

[Mawsey]

Great finish from Jack Clarke, hot property indeed.

[Spider]

My stream is well behind, but Jack Clarke's composure told all. A well-taken goal. Keep up the pressure, lads.

[cam]

Keep it up chaps. They don't like it up 'em. Tony Mowbray will be fuming with his players but I wonder if he is secretly saying well done Jack?

[Nockya]

The lads are playing alright so we just have to make sure our defence is watertight.
There's the whistle so we go in 1-0 up.
Hopefully, we can continue like this in the second-half.
Jack Clarke is struggling.
Fingers crossed the magic sponge will do wonders for him.

[Nockya]

My stream is well behind, but Jack Clarke's composure told all. A well-taken goal. Keep up the pressure, lads.

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Ballard is booked, he was on nine yellow cards so he is out for the next two games.
What are the chances of Luke O'Nien getting yellow-carded?

[cam]

Birmingham equalise so it is now 1-1.

[Nockya]

Well, Patterson lets a goal in and we have a game on in the 61st minute.
It is now 1-1.