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Ready?

Say hi.

Jack!

That's that famous Brady lateral movement.

In action.

That was solid.

Four for four. My quarterback rating is really high right now.

It's cold. It's daft. It's a relentless winter schedule.

The first of four games in ten days.

Statsfield glancing at us!

We are top of the league.

Oh!

Fuck, he might be too easy for us.

Well, this has been a tough watch.

Football isn't easy on the eye, but they are grinding out the results.

They're coming in for some rough treatment from the opposition.

This game is as interesting as watching snooker.

And it remains to be seen if the Blues can rise to the challenge.

New Year's Day.

Where else would you rather be?

You've got to fucking move.

There's no energy.

In comes the cross.

Southam Hill's rising.

Stockport have their equaliser.

Is the hectic schedule starting to get the better of Birmingham City?

We have to fucking find that fire inside us.

It's not a time to think about this guy and fatigue or anything. It's not a time

for that. It's a time to fucking keep pushing.

It's like Southport County.

1 -1 tie.

We have no energy, Rob.

Two ties in a row, one to a shit team.

Good news.

Fucking thankfully, Wrexham lost.

I think they're feeling themselves a little bit, top of the table.

I think you just, like, don't have any urgency or you don't have any...

Just roll your fucking ball out there and think you're going to win.

It doesn't work like that.

I think we're a little untitled, to be honest.

Grave St.

Andrew, and its twelve apostles.

What's your dream come into view?

Frozen in a moment with my hand above my head.

Never let them tell you we were anything but glue.

It's a big one. It's away at Wrexham.

We're a couple points clear of the team in second place, Wickham. But I think

it's an opportunity for us to begin to separate and put some distance between

and those who are also trying to win the league.

We have to win.

You have to create a mindset that in important games, the only outcome is a

It's not a draw.

If it isn't good enough, there's only a point.

One of the most high -profile fixtures in the EFL takes place this evening.

Wrexham, who are third, take on the League One leaders, Birmingham.

This is a Birmingham side that have spent over 30 million on their squad. We

haven't even had a sniff at that much.

Money doesn't always turn into results. What a statement that would be. Tom

Brady crying his eyes out.

There's been a lot of talk about this game, like there was the last time we

played. Okay? But thankfully all the talking is done now because talk is

All we need to do tonight is go and play the best game of football we can.

That's it.

Nothing more, nothing less.

We know we're better than them.

So let's go and fucking print.

I don't know how I've ended up with my fucking bandwidth.

I'll have to get rid of it some more.

If I lose my computer, I tell you, if I lose the computer, it's got loads of

work on it.

It's a free bar!

I'll fix the work, don't help yourself.

of the leading stars in the third tier.

Thank you. Can I take this?

Am I allowed to take this?

No one's stopping me.

A tale bursting with stories.

Brady and Wagner against Reynolds and McElhenney. The stars of Hollywood

the suits of New York.

It makes me chuckle when Wrexham fans scoff at what we've spent and how we've

gone about it. Good luck tonight, guys.

Good luck.

Hey, fucking kill him.

Let's be clear.

Wrexham's achieved their success because they've driven commercial revenue.

Birmingham has always been a much bigger club.

Our target's not Wrexham.

If they have continued success, maybe one day it will be. But currently it's

not. Our target is to play Premier League football against Villa.

Period. Full stop.

Yeah, every bouncing ball is a fucking blue shirt. Who are we? We are fucking

Birmingham. A new Birmingham.

The team that doesn't stop for fucking 100 minutes. Let's go.

Here we go.

Very optimistic.

Yeah, that's good.

Going to the new year top of the league is

not something we've done very often.

I'm still waiting for the bubble to burst.

The intensity of the fixture list in League One is really hard.

You're playing cold, unforgiving players.

The games just keep coming.

And so exhaustion can set in.

Fans and the players.

That's cut out by Telegon, the hitman. But he's robbed deep by Ratbo. And Ratbo

will go for goal!

Lift off for Wrexham. Inside 10 minutes.

That was a foul. That was a fucking foul.

Every team's going to have an up and down and a wobbly patch.

I think a lot of people think it's easy, but anyone can beat anyone in League

One, so no matter who we're playing, we play at our best ability.

It's all about stepping up and performing on the pitch.

You need to be at your best every game.

Oh, I like it. I like it.

you are expected to beat if things go wrong with the consequence of our own

mistake then there would be an issue

no one will ever be sympathetic to a player they're

getting paid to do the job they're definitely not pressing as much right

last time agatha wants every day 100 he

wants to win the ball high he wants to play football in their half.

It's not easy.

It's relentless.

I'm really, really wary of any complacency and just keeping everyone

focused. Because we've seen already what their pitfalls can be.

Blues bands who've travelled and spent money, if they see a performance where

people don't seem to be trying, that really does cause trouble.

Fucking get on it! Let's have a jam in!

See, it's not having the same energy tonight.

Fucking falling apart here.

Blues have five strong in this attack and Keshie Anderson instantly involved.

And Alfie May couldn't provide the finish.

Tell him to fucking start running.

Fucking score.

Corner for Wrexham once again into a packed six

yard box and Wrexham can't turn it in.

No, no, no.

How the fuck did that not go in?

Fucking knackered.

Fucking ruined!

Oh, fuck off, yes.

All hands to the pump for Blues against a resilient Wrexham.

No!

Oh, fuck off.

Come on, Blues!

Wrexham now just putting the Blues penalty area under siege.

was to kick the shit out of him, and what we got was a draw.

There's nothing like winning to keep the energy levels up.

But I think it's a totally different thing if you're going away and drawing

losing.

It's a radically different emotional experience.

Get out of here.

Fucking hell.

Didn't have control.

Didn't have that normal quality that we have.

Honestly.

That's what we're fucking up against.

Then we have to make sure that when we come up against these type of teams

again, we put it to bed.

There's a theory that if you just stay completely calm the whole time,

everything's going to be all right. But I think sometimes it needs emotion, it

needs passion, and if players know what I'm like, the

emotional side's real and it's there.

We've got teams right behind us.

They're on our back. Like, they're chasing us. And we've got two games in

but everyone sees that as, like, it's a guaranteed six points.

But nothing's a guaranteed six points in this league.

On the road again.

We're not going to just turn up and have them go, all right, here's two goals,

see you later.

A bit of complacency might have crept in a little bit.

Expectancy breeds disappointment, and we've had too much of that.

People might not realise that expectation is one of the hardest things

In League One, you're coming up against physical players who are trying to smash

themselves apart.

trying to leave their mark on us because we are the team that people want to

beat.

I joined last season.

I went on four loans before, but I needed a home.

I had my fair share of injuries.

I played right back.

The way I play, the amount of mileage I put in, a lot of sprints, you're going

to get injured.

My hamstring's kept going.

I'm missing a lot of games.

We need to be on the pitch to be successful.

You want to know for yourself, are you really the real deal, you know what I

mean?

At the moment, it's relentless.

Games, games, games, games.

And as a footballer, that's your dream. Like, you just want to play a game.

But then there's a certain aspect where your body has to keep up.

And you have to start realising, OK, if I want to do what they're doing, playing

games every week, then I'm going to have to change.

I had to understand my body a bit more.

We have to continue to raise the bar.

I remember going in the locker room last year. It was like after the game. It

was like they were eating the worst foods and drinking soda.

And I was like, oh, like this is like going back 25 years when I was a

high school kid.

When you're young in that age, you don't understand all the effects it has on

your performance because you always feel pretty good at it.

21, 23 years old, but you're not getting the best out of yourself.

In America, we've really revved the engine on elite performance and getting

better over time.

That's where I can really help.

With Tom, I could describe it as having like a world -class consultant, one of

the greatest athletes of all time to speak to about situations that we're in.

He's a busy man.

That's something everyone needs to understand.

As much as he's our owner, he has his own stuff to do.

But he takes time to speak to us.

Yeah, good pass.

He cares about winning and he shows it when he speaks to us. There'll be

times where he might have a little debut for us or on Zoom, wherever he may be

in the world.

I was thinking about this when I was running this morning.

It's like you always have to fight as an athlete, that little inner bitch in

you.

That's always telling you, oh, it's too hard.

Today's not your day.

Time to quit.

And I was like, fuck you, you little inner bitch.

I'm going to own you today.

So you get out there and you just do it.

And it's like every time you defeat that little inner bitch inside of you.

You develop more and more resilience, more and more determination, and then

see the results of it, and I think that's where you get that short -term

improvement and then serious long -term character building.

We're not going to win consistently if we don't have the right processes to get

it there.

You have to be willing to get up earlier to stay later.

to work harder on the field, to chase things down more, or else you just punch

the clock. Hey, I hit my nine to five. I didn't get shit done. We suck.

But hey, it's not my fault. I'm doing a great job.

If you want to be a pressure performer, big time player, you've got to do it

where the preparation is harder than the game.

Come on.

Come on. Come on.

We do have feelings and emotions, but when you're game after game after game,

you have to kind of, like, suppress it.

It's a league. You have to win your next game.

It's an inconvenient truth for a lot of people that it is sometimes not pleasant

to suffer and work hard long days, late nights, and there'll be people that tell

you, no, you can do this and do that, and little shortcuts here and there.

I just don't believe in that.

When you play football, you have to outwork your position.

And then your skills can come out.

Our energy levels and our standards, they were very, very good in that winter

period.

That is ultimately where it's won or lost during that grind.

And that momentum has carried us on.

You always want to keep that drive. You always want to keep that intensity.

That's the key to success.

How about that?

It's another hard -fought and valuable three points on the road for Blues.

Some of the great competitors I ever played with, they wanted to fight every

day.

Because then when you show up in the game, man, you've done this every day of

the week.

If it didn't matter the winning or the losing, then you wouldn't work as hard.

Because you want to walk up the field victorious.

Penalty!

Jay Stansfield steps up.

Can he put us in a commanding position?

Yes, he can!

And for Blues, it's back to business.

At the top of...

Birmingham showing excellent form as we head into a huge weekend on both sides

of the pond.

The Big Easy is rolling out the red carpet for its 11th Super Bowl.

Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs are playing for the big one.

Eagles! You can just feel the electricity in the air.

Boom, boom, boom. Tom Brady's insane run of seven Super Bowl wins started right

here. And he's about to call his first Super Bowl as a broadcaster.

Hey, those of you in the building, we're all here.

Yeah. We're here to have some fun.

Be gracious.

That's why we're here, to have some fun. Yeah.

Tom, welcome to the team.

I know you've been down this road as a fan and a player.

As a broadcaster, how have you prepared for this one?

A lot of times studying a lot of film, trying to make my notes.

Being part of this Super Bowl extravaganza is awesome. It's really an

brings so many families together.

Boom, boom, boom, boom.

He's down here on Bourbon Street with me.

He's up here with his buddies, and I've got to go on, and then he's going to

come to the stadium with me.

By the way, the first Super Bowl I won was here. Oh, wow.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and

welcome to Super Bowl XXXVI.

Here are the New England Patriots.

It's hard to look back that many years and think exactly what I was feeling.

But I know the moment wasn't too big for me.

Minute and a half. The Patriots have no timeouts left.

It felt normal.

My normal was a lot of pressure.

John Mann saying, well, they should just run the clock out and play for

overtime. I think as a Patriot with this field position, you have to just run

the clock out. You have to play for overtime now. I don't think you want to

anything stupid.

Well, that wasn't in my head.

When I get in that huddle with the players, they could see in my eyes that

a belief about what we could go out there and accomplish.

Here's Brady.

He dumps it to Wiggins down to the 30, and now they are in a race, but they've

got to hurry.

Maybe he can spike it right here and stop the clock. That's what he'll do.

spike it here.

No time on the clock.

So it didn't feel like a lot of pressure because it was no more than what I

would normally put on myself to succeed.

Unbelievable. The Patriots have won Super Bowl 36.

There's nothing more I love than being in a fight with my teammates.

Yeah, baby.

Way to go, 12.

You're the man, baby. You are the man.

I'm just in that fight in a different way now.

Brady has the record for the most Super Bowl wins.

the most touchdown passes.

He's got more Super Bowl wins than any franchise. You get the picture.

He's the man, has been the man, continues to be the man. And he is with

now, getting ready to call his first football call.

Good to see you, Tom.

It's pretty surreal when I think about it.

23 years ago, we were staying in the Ritz.

Carlton here, and kind of an underdog at the time. Nobody knew what our

organization was all about.

And it was a group of guys that came together that was a bit unheralded

the season.

and we found our stride at the right time.

The Super Bowl is glamorous, it's world famous, and it attracts the biggest

stars.

The FA Cup.

Sort of our version, but sort of proudly not that.

For those who live in Britain, only one match really matters.

The Cup Final, played in London at Wembley Stadium.

I remember when there was no live football on TV, apart from the FA Cup

It's the Cup final, the greatest match of them all. This year, a tale of two

cities, with white -shirted Birmingham, hot favourites against Manchester, last

year's runners -up.

The coverage started at 9am.

It was a family event and you watched all the build -up and you watched the

game. The audience figures were enormous.

And it was a unique television event.

The Birmingham defence clears, but Bobby Johnstone picks up the loose ball.

And Bobby wriggles through for yet another goal.

Splendid teamwork and just that extra ounce of stamina have beaten the

favourites and brought home the cup.

So this is the real FA Cup?

That's the one.

The wonderful thing about the competition is everyone can enter, all

teams, and you could conceivably draw one of the... The giant thing, sort of

United, Liverpool, et cetera, et cetera.

It feels a very British sort of thing, where you're always looking for the

underdog to win, and miraculously, sometimes they do.

Hello and welcome to the Emirates Stadium, where we are here to make the

for the FA Cup fourth round.

Number 26.

Birmingham City, the League One leaders.

23. And they will be welcoming Newcastle United.

What a tie this is.

Newcastle United are a top Premier League team.

Drops for Shearer. Oh!

The draw with Newcastle, I think for most Blues fans, was, OK, how good

are we?

It's at home at St. Andrews with a capacity crowd expected.

It's going to be a real good spectacle.

They're going to be the underdog.

Blue's fancy gear there. Let's make as much noise as we possibly can.

It was a good timing.

We'd been slogging away in League One for a long time.

And just for the players to remind them that, by the way, this is where we want

to get to.

When you have opportunities to play against the top teams, for me

it's a challenge.

Am I close? Am I near to where I want to be?

Do not let them get inside your head.

It's exactly how these people work.

Looking forward to that. I have a good feeling about today.

Yeah. I love it, Tommy, because they have the flame.

It's really warm.

There's been lots of games in the past where you think, if we win this game,

we'll be on course for the next step, and invariably we never win them. And

long been said that I haven't got a heart, I've got a swinging brick.

This time, please, be different.

This time.

A lot of my family originate from Small Heath.

My mum was born on Garrison Street and my dad was born on Arthur Street.

And the stadium's right in the middle.

So it was a big part of all of our lives for a couple of generations, really.

This is my 20th year as a steward.

To get to do what I do and be where I get to be on a match day, it's always

special.

You've got to take the good when you can and you've got to find it where you can

as a Blues fan.

I think that's the legacy of what we've been through over the years.

Microphone check, one, two.

Louder, please.

It's a lot busier today than it would normally be. Bit of a buzz about the

place.

It's a very big day. It's the FA Cup, which is always special, isn't it?

Mum said that if Blues ever win the FA Cup, she'll get a Blues badge tattooed

her bum.

And thinking we're never going to win the FA Cup, but I hope one year before

you're old and wrinkly that we do it.

I'm ready. Thank you.

Welcome to Birmingham, the home of heavy metal, Peaky Blinders, and today's

host, The Blues.

Are you ready?

One, two... No, no, no, no.

Limbs! They want limbs!

This is a huge game, isn't it? Today's like the good old days. This place is

going to be absolutely bouncing.

Will they bounce with their chances?

I think they will.

I mean, the mighty Magpies, Newcastle United against the Blues.

Bring it on.

When you hear someone giving their all as a fan, it's intimidation for the

team, but it's also encouragement for you because, you know, you've got the

whole backing of the stadium, you've got the backing of your manager, and, you

know, your teammates are going to fight for you.

To make it clear, we are here today to not only compete, but to go through to

the next round. We're not here just to enjoy the game.

Two mistakes that I do not want us to make tonight. Two.

And it's to do with the mindset.

If we respect this opposition too much, okay, we're making a big mistake.

They have to earn the respect in this game.

This is our home.

When they walk onto that pitch, it's a fucking blue machine. And they're going

to feel it.

They're going to feel it when we press, when we're low -press.

In every moment, I want them to feel it, be physical.

You do not show them too much respect.

And the second mistake we can make is to do with belief.

Everything starts with belief. You know that.

Let's go, boys.

These are the occasions we want to play in.

So let's enjoy it. Let's make a statement.

We're going to go, come on.

No, 100%.

that we can beat this team.

Our stadium, our home, our pitch, our families in the fucking stadium.

No respect.

With a little bit of belief, maybe we can go and shock the world. Let's go.

Good?

Excited? Cool.

This is the best bit.

I like doing this bit.

I think the fear of failure kills a lot of ambition.

People are okay with failing on a small stage.

A lot of people don't want to fail on a big stage.

But then you can't succeed on a big stage if you don't want to fail.

There were certain players who played better in the Super Bowl than they did

the regular season.

And I was like, man, I like those guys because they don't give up.

Fuck.

They're in it to win.

And I think that's the type of attitude you need as you reach and you're more

ambitious. You can't be afraid of failure because you're never going to

great teams because they have guys who are not fearful of failure.

Realistic dreams are in the air.

Today, I've got to test us.

Welcome.

It's electric tonight!

When you get them butterflies, it's a good feeling.

You just know, my body's ready for it, my mind's ready for it. It's just,

got to go out there and deliver.

Work to do for Newcastle United already.

Deep corner, headed back in, and it's a goal!

First minute. How did that happen? First minute. It was on a corner.

We fucking scored on a corner?

This will be banana land.

Come on, John!

Come on, we're waiting for it!

Chipped into the box of the package of Sula.

Willock tried to turn it in.

Second attempt is high. First attempt was incredibly kept out.

Oh, fucking dear.

Hang on. No, it went in.

It went in.

Can you believe it?

It's close.

Well, one.

That sucked.

Liveramento!

I don't know how he missed it.

He's been a real live wire down that left -hand side.

And Laird's going to attack this.

And the shot.

That was a fucking rocket.

And it's all gone quiet. All gone

quiet. Quiet over there.

And that is it for the first half.

I tell you what, we've given these a better game than fucking Arsenal did the

other night.

Okay. You've been outstanding.

Top.

Pressing, energy, no fucking respect.

And you look like a better team.

So we're here now.

Can we maintain it? Can we go up? And I've told you before the game.

Now you fucking believe me. You can win this game.

How you doing?

We made a goal that was insane.

I'm going to send it.

Did you see it?

No.

I'm going to send it to you right now.

Did you see that?

I think that's my favorite shot. That kind of shot.

There's no suspense on the ball, and it just traps into the goal. An absolute

rocket.

That's a banger right there.

Yeah.

There's lags at the game.

Oh, really?

Yeah. What do you have going to that?

I've got to go to this Cisco event where I've got to speak for 30 minutes, and

then I have a production meeting.

Then I've got to go to a cocktail party for 30 minutes, and then I've got to do

a thing for Verizon for an hour.

Until about 8 .30 p .m.

Wow.

All right.

Love you. All right. I love you more.

See you. Love you. Bye.

It's still a win for us.

Right?

Never mind the Super Bowl.

I am here purely for Birmingham Blues against Newcastle Magpies.

It's been brilliant so far.

And here's Williamson trying to pull it back. And Longstaff didn't have that

time.

The referee has waved away the claims of a penalty.

To your next job?

Okay, I'm going to go to work.

Oh, yeah.

No!

Fuck off! Rip!

The host may be a little bit tired. Yeah.

We're getting to that phase, aren't we? The really small mistakes are starting

to creep in.

Played across to Livramento.

There's Longstaff. It was blocked.

And now it's in!

The final whistle sounds at St. Andrews after a

sensational night of fourth -round FA Cup football.

If you want to be at the top, you have to take how it comes.

You may lose, you may win, you may play bad, you may play amazing, but you have

to take it. And I'm just going to keep going and keep going and keep going

because that's what it means to be a Birmingham player.

Keep going, keep right on.

It's never nice to lose a game of football, absolutely.

But I'm so proud, and it's not a word that I use a lot, but I'm so proud of

of you for the way that you handled tonight, the way you approached the

And I'm always talking to you about the pack fit, and I'm always putting things

up, and this and that, and this is where you move, you jump it, you jump it. But

more interesting than that, and more important than that, is the heart and

spirit of a person, the heart and the spirit of a team.

You should be proud, and I'm proud of you, that a team like that are keeping

ball in the corner, hanging on.

Hanging on, because they know you can come back, because you got knocked down

the game, and you got up again.

And I'm proud of every single one of you.

OK?

We've shown everybody around us and above us what we're capable of.

So watch this, friends. We're going to get better.

You think of a lot of proud moments, you go up against some heavy hitters, and

we did in that game, and we fought.

And I think that's the most proud you can be when you're in that situation.

It's a gift, and it's part of you, an inner belief and confidence that the

moment's not too big.

But it's also developed through a lot of stress testing.

You gain confidence in yourself, and when you gain confidence in yourself,

people can see it in your eyes.

It looks great.

You actually can play in the Premier League club, but just beat the shit out

Arsenal. And not only holding your own, you can fucking play in it.

That's what keeps you confident, doesn't it? It's fucking really cool.

We want to be in the top half of the Prem persistently.

It's not going to happen overnight.

But the foundation that we're building now, if we make the right decisions,

allow us to get there.

We will do

it.

We will get to the prim.

It's just a question of when, not if.

This could be the most successful season in the history of the club.

You've just got to stay aggressive.

The players, they're human beings.

They're not robots.

You start questioning in everything that you do.

They've got a lot to play for.

You've got a game to get to, come on!

Just look at that.

Wembley! Come on, boys!

Nothing's going to fucking stop us from getting there, OK?

That one fucking thing.