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I have got a love hate relationship with Birmingham City. They have provided me with far more lows than highs, since I started supporting them around the year of 1986 when they had dropped from the top flight.

The reason I started supporting them was that I worked reasonably close to the ground and even had to catch my bus home outside of St Andrews. Eventually curiosity got the better of me and I went to watch them and saw possibly some of the most dire football ever known to man, however, it was fun in an ironic sort of way, with the crowd of between 6-12,000 being quite sharp with it's songs, more so than now and a competition between the terrace and the Railway End in singing.

There on in I have been doomed to watch failure after failure. Infact the history books will record that at the end of the 2004/5 season, the only trophy of note Blues have won is the old League Cup and if we were honest, big clubs didn't bother with it then. We have reached finals, the most recent of those being on 25th February 2001 where Liverpool beat us on penalties and David Ellary waived away an obvious pen on Andrew Johnson by Stephane Henchoz, virtually at the end of the game. It has never been lost on me or other Blues fans that had it been given and converted our history would have been so different or the fact that the reason we didn't is that big clubs get the big decisions. So we remain the club who has 'never won fuck all'. Still things are looking up, at present we are in the Premiership, after promotion in 2002 and may one day receive a similar unjust decision to allow our duck to be broken.

At the moment I go when I can, having had to give up my season ticket through unemployment and a big hike in prices. It is in my blood though and I will get that season ticket again, one day soon hopefully. Part of my love hate relationship with the club is that I feel there is little else to do in this city. I am convinced I could give up my footie addiction if there was something else to do, but until global warming makes us a seaside town I guess i'll be down there as often as I can afford.