AT LONG last Birmingham gota goal – but they still had tocling on for their first win in over a month.
It has taken 436 long minutes, since Steve Cotterill’s first game as the Blues’ latest manager, for them to score – and again it was Che Adams who got it.
To add to the triumph it was Adams’ 50th league game for Birmingham and it took them out of the Championship’s bottom three.
Adams in fact is the only man who has scored for Cotterill in his six games in charge.
Perhaps emotion got the better of Cotterill, but he ducked the postmatch press conference and sent in assistant boss Lee Carsley instead.
Or maybe Cotterill was finishing off the last of the champagne, celebrating the climb out of the relegation zone for the time being.
They should have had more goals in a first half in which they played their best football for a long time – signs that Cotterill is beginning to make an impact after all the managerial chaos that was started off by the shock sacking of Gary Rowett just under 12 months ago.
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