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Ben Foster

Full Name Benjamin Anthony Foster
DOB 3rd April 1983
Place of Birth Leamington Spa, England
Nationality English
Position Goalkeeper
Blues Playing Statistics
Total League Appearances 37
Total Appearances 38
League Goals 0
Total Goals 0
Birmingham City Debut against Sunderland, 14 August 2010
Birmingham City Debut goal against
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Gossip Folks Week Four

It’s the halfway point in the transfer window now, and I thought it was time to take another look at the transfer window spreadsheet I’ve been building.

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Posted in Birmingham City, Transfers | 11 Comments »

Benjamin and Glyn; a tale of two goalkeepers.

It took a week or so, but it finally happened – Ben Foster left Birmingham City on a loan deal to our neighbours in Smethwick, and in return we’ve got Welsh-American keeper Glyn Oliver “Boaz” Myhill, a saving in wages and maybe a loan fee. It’s not a transfer that excites; in many fans cases it’s wound them up. What’s curious is that there is no purchase clause in Foster’s loan deal, contrary to some previous reports.

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Posted in Birmingham City, General Ramblings | 10 Comments »

Ins and Outs: a Transfer story roundup

With all the background stuff going on at Blues, I’ve not talked about the playing side much, so I thought today I’d take a look at the transfer rumours out there and discuss them further.

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Posted in Birmingham City, Talking Points, Transfers | 26 Comments »

Squad Analysis

With Blues scheduled to play friendlies against Cork City and Worcester City this weekend, I thought it might be worth having a look at the squad as it stands just to see exactly how thin it is and where I think we will have to strengthen if we’re to have a hope of doing well this season.

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Posted in Birmingham City, Players, Talking Points | 19 Comments »

Paper Talk

If the media were to be believed, the vultures are already circling to pick the bones of a relegated Birmingham City team clean of what’s desirable, and as such many Blues fans are wondering who will be leaving us and how much for. I decided it was worth a trawl through the rumours, and to try and piece together something resembling the truth.

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Posted in Birmingham City, Players | 2 Comments »

Gutless

I’m not going to write a match report for the Fulham game. There are so many synonyms for gutless, and having left myself with fifteen minutes to go feeling physically sick at just how bad we’d played, I couldn’t do it justice. Suffice it to say, that was the kind of performance that not only gets you relegated, but deserves relegation.

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Posted in Birmingham City, Reviews | 1 Comment »

A heavy blow but not a fatal one

Normally, I’d do a write up of the previous match the day after, but having read many of the messageboards, I don’t think much more can be added. It was a dire result, a poor performance – particularly defensively – and it’s a worry that we can play so badly with a local derby coming up, especially considering our poor record in local derbies this season.

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A tale of two mistakes

Here are my reflections on the match against Sunderland at St Andrews today:

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Two Boxes

Saturday’s game was not just seen as a return to winning ways by Blues fans, but a return to a team that is attacking; a team full of purpose, of vim and vigour. For many, including Colin Tattum here, the return of Kevin Phillips to the team is seen as the catalyst for the improvement of performance. Whilst not denigrating at all KP’s contribution to the game on Saturday, I think that there is more to the win than just Phillips being able to score a goal – Blues were better defensively, and for Blues that can mean the difference between three points and no points.

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Posted in Birmingham City, Statistics, Talking Points | 2 Comments »

Blues update

With the lack of a midweek game, and the international friendlies in midweek it’s a quiet time for Birmingham City; there isn’t much news around but I thought I would round up what I have seen to keep you up to date. Obafemi Martins is now back in the UK, according to today’s Birmingham Mail. [...]

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Posted in Birmingham City, News, Players | 2 Comments »


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