The Sad Reality of Being Relegated

a part of the English league pyramid since 1888 Birmingham city have spent around half of their history at the top level of English football they were relegated from the Premier League in 2011 and today after 13 years in the second tier Championship they could be relegated again hi I'm will I'm a Birmingham city fan Wills Blues are in a dramatic final day relegation battle with three other teams one team out of Birmingham city Plymouth Argy Sheffield Wednesday and Blackburn robers that finishes with the lowest amount of points today will be relegated to the third tier of English [Music] football well let's set the scene actually no we won't at the scene no scenes will be set my mic run out of battery just 10 seconds into my pre-match conversation with will it's fine I'm reacting to it rationally this Clos to a mental breakdown outside being andar what I wanted was to show the JS the position of before and after that excruciating endurance of a final day relegation battle sadly you won't get that but we will connect with Will at full time and chat thoroughly to him about his thoughts and feelings [Music] I'm currently stood opposite a quiet unassuming shopping park in which your Julies and your Karens are completing their weekly sharp unaware that just seconds away from them is a football club 45 minutes away from relegation that's because as it stands Birmingham city are going down Birmingham city have gone one n up against however over at the king power s just black bur Rover One n up against Leicester city which means at the king to which way has it gone B hoping it's got to Lester it hasn't turn Rovers for this season [Applause] not we've hit minute 90 and the scores are all still the exact same the thing is Birmingham city can say they did absolutely everything they could by beating Norwich City at home today it gives the fans a reason to look at their phone something to get behind something to maintain a level of atmosphere that isn't flat because it's so hard not to be flat when you dejected and you know that there's nothing you can [Music] do the Blues don't beat the drop Birmingham city will play in the third tier for the first time in 30 years they W up on the day but next goal wasn't enough there was a sense of like we've never been relegated before in these sort of situations so there was a bit of like oh you know we'll do it again even my mat Villa fans said the same thing uh I know should be probably more anger but there that's not there but you did you guys did everything you could today is itday is it Huddersfield and the Rother and result you drop points against two sides below you in the table I mean you got rir down Steve Evans walks out with a sombrero we draw nil nil to them Huddersfield 1-1 should have won that don't know it's just a bit sorry it's been the best worst season ever Ang boy in the bo she a liptick boy she a beautiful boy and you said at the beginning of the season your expectation was mid-table and it's that's all you needed yeah is that is I'd have love to have walked in today here just have a like like I said earlier you wouldn't have been here we' have just had a nice little 12th position day you walk out the ground and they've got Sky Sports on and you see the celebrations at IP switch there's a lot of players that have been here for a long time some have worked their ass off like the duw and some have you know we don't know how to win games I can't remember that like we're not a winning team so so you started the season with John Eustace as manager on October 9th he was replaced by Wayne Rooney who lasted until January he was replaced by Tony mry uh he had to leave due to medical reason his assistant Mark vus came in gained one point and was replaced on an interim basis by Gary is that the reason why Birmingham city uh relegated well I think going into this i' be like the Wayne Rooney appointment was the one that turned the tide and ultimately there is a big percentage of that but like the players have got to be responsible for this as well because you know they're the group that have been the constant even throughout the managers so I do hold a bit of bitterness towards them boy and Ste boy your had chemicals boy i' grown so close to you boy and you just grown boy what do you think a Birmingham city fan would say to the players if they had an opportunity to have a conversation with them you know some would be angry some would go at them I think there's just an overriding thing with today with like if that was a couple of years ago I mean like there was a few knowledge fans here and I was like not be careful but I was like I could do a toxic today but because of the owners there is a sense of like what we're going down we've still got our football club to support yeah you've got new ownership Bingham city were taken over by American financier Tom Vagner is it Wagner orag I keep saying Vagner but it's Wagner it's Vagner Lou that's something to be positive about right honestly everything off the pitch is literally the best it's ever been and probably I think they announced in the AGM the meeting that they have like in terms of outside the parachute payment teams who've like gained the most Revenue so there's Mone in the club there's safety you look around here it doesn't look like much but to us it's changed completely like we keep banging on about we didn't have hot water at the start of the season in the stadium we've got that the fan zone is great Z infrastructure is great but I don't think it's sunk in yet they're in League one boy boy angel boy in the boy she Li boy she was boy and tears boy and all in your in space boy head hand I think of Birmingham city as quite a loyal football club with a loyal fan base oh yeah I don't worry about that yeah in terms of attendances do you worry about a drop in the third tier no no not at all just uh so you've never been in League one with with Birmingham city cuz they they got relegated the last time Birmingham were in League one was 30 years ago around about 33 new so so you just mated and you haven't me for being old as well so yeah I was a three-year-old and I remember really well a lot of people my age maybe a little bit younger will have always think of us as a Prem team but we have been in this league for 13 years yeah 13 years I mean thank God we're out of it but maybe not for the right reasons when you were relegated from the Premier League to the championship if someone said in 13 years you'd be back out at the championship would you have thought it was because you got promoted again yeah yeah I think so I mean look look today is like a really good Blues team that just beat norwi in the playoffs and gone down like when we went 2011 we got relegated against Spurs in the last 5 minutes and then we came to the championship and we had Europa League football I mean everything about this club is just not done simply which the sick part of me that's part of the fun as well we will rise again we will I think yeah if we don't get promoted next year with the revenue and the size of the club look at Sunderland took them a while Derby second season isn't it how long have you been there uh well we got relegated to leag two before we even you don't know what could happen we could do the double but just the wrong way the quality of English football across the pyramid I think is at an all time high you look at Rex and you know teams like KN County Stockport who came into the football pyramid and they've really given it their own we've got the best quality team I've seen which is like absolutely mental to say stud after being relegated but like ironically we probably need some of the players that were like bastards but I think teams will come here and it will be a cup final because it was it is the case of both teams come and play their best game at Bolton and I think Birmingham city are in many ways but I don't know would you say Birmingham city or Bolton is a bigger Club I think I think Bolton have won more but you've got a better probably got a better fan base being real not I'll really get on with you I think your content's great I don't end on an argument

Channel: StuntPegg

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Keywords: premier league, relegation, being relegated, birmingham city, championship, stuntpegg

Id: auQzMBnhEaM

Length: 9min 45sec (585 seconds)

Published: Fri May 17 2024