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Skybet Championship Round 8
Norwich City 2 - 2 Birmingham City
HT 0- 2
Jerome 52' 55'
Attendance:26,351
Date: Saturday 20th September
Venue: Carrow Road
Kick Off: 3:00PM
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Today Norwich City welcome Birmingham City to Carrow Road in round 8 of the Skybet Championship season. The Blues have had a rather disappointing start to their campaign and sit in 20th place in the league table winning just once, drawing three and losing three. They go into today's game on the back of a 0-2 home reverse against Sheffield Wednesday and have lost three of their last four games scoring only once.
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Current Blues manager and former Canary assistant Lee Clark
Norwich must therefore go into today's match against Lee Clark's side as huge favourites as they are sitting pretty in 2nd place in the table having won five of their seven games so far with a goal difference of plus 10. The Canaries will be in confident mood as they take on The Blues but manager Neil Adams will take nothing for granted and is sure to have done his homework with regard to both the weaknesses and strengths of today's opponent's. Last time out Norwich secured what on paper looked a comfortable 3-0 win away at Brentford, but that really doesn't tell the whole story as for long periods in the first half the Bees were arguably the better side. In the second half though, City found their form with goals from Alex Tettey and two from in form striker Cameron Jerome ensuring The Canaries left Griffin Park with all three points.
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Cameron Jerome who was on target twice for the Canaries against the Bees
Norwich City: WWDWW
Birmingham City: DLLDL
Match history
Norwich and Birmingham didn't play each other until 9th October 1965 where they met in a league division two fixture at St Andrew's Birmingham winning the game 1-0. Since then there have been a further 61 competitive league and cup matches if you include Birmingham's Texaco Cup 1st round 3-1 victory in 1974. The most remembered encounter between the two is of course the 2002 League Division One play-off final where Birmingham secured Premier League status after their penalty shoot out win over The Canaries.
There have been 52 league meetings in total, today will be the 27th at Carrow Road where Norwich have the upper hand with 12 victories to Birmingham's 4, there have been 10 drawn games.
At St Andrew's however it is a different story as it hasn't been a happy hunting ground for the Canaries as they have only managed 6 wins, 6 draws and have suffered 14 defeats.
In 1985 the two sides were drawn together in the third round of The FA Cup and because at the time all ties had to be settled in real time with no penalty shoot outs, incredibly the tie was played over four games before Norwich eventually saw off the Blues 1-0 in the last match.
Norwich's best win was in April 1970 in the old second division when they beat Birmingham 6-0 at Carrow Road. Birmingham's biggest winning margin was on 8th December 2001, the Blues winning 4-0 at St Andrew's in League Division One.
Highest Norwich City score
Norwich City 6 Birmingham City 0
Highest Birmingham City score
Birmingham City 4 Norwich City 0
Highest aggregate (6)
Norwich City 3 Birmingham City 3
They played for both clubs
Those that have plied their trade at both Norwich and Birmingham include; Robert Taylor, Martin Taylor (Norwich loan), Chris Sutton, Leroy Lita (Norwich and Birmingham loan), Roger Hansbury, Kevin Drinkell (Birmingham loan), Greg Downs, Louie Donowa, Tony Cottee (Birmingham loan), Simon Charlton, Kenny Brown, Steve Bruce, Keith Bertschin, David Bentley (Norwich and Birmingham loan), Tom Adeyemi, Jonathan Grounds (Norwich loan) and current Canaries Nathan Redmond and Cameron Jerome.
Other club connections
Birmingham's current manager Lee Clark was assistant at Norwich, Norwich Milk Cup winner Asa Hartford once scouted for Birmingham as did former Norwich player Rob Newman. Another former Canary Mark Bowen was once assistant manager at Blues and both John Bond and Chris Hughton managed both clubs.
Neil Adams' match preview
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Team News
Norwich captain Russell Martin is available after recovering from a back problem which kept him out of Tuesday's 3-0 win at Brentford.
Midfielder Wes Hoolahan (ankle), Jonny Howson (knee) and Gary Hooper (dead leg) are all sidelined.
Birmingham defender Neal Eardley has injured his medial ligament and will be out of action for several weeks.
Koby Arthur (hamstring), Lee Novak (knee), Olly Lee (hamstring) and Denny Johnstone (thigh) are all unavailable.
Today's Teams
Norwich City
01 Ruddy
12 Hooiveld
23 Olsson
05 Martin
06 Turner
04 Johnson
27 Tettey
22 Redmond
14 Hoolahan
07 Grabban
10 Jerome
Substitutes
02 Whittaker
09 Lafferty
17 E Bennett
18 Garrido
26 Rudd
28 O'Neil
39 Odjidja-Ofoe
Birmingham City
01 Randolph
06 Edgar
23 Spector
03 Grounds
04 Robinson
26 Davis
17 Reilly
31 Caddis
33 Gray
09 Donaldson
11 Cotterill
Substitutes
07 Duffy
08 Gleeson
10 Thomas
13 Shea
14 Packwood
21 Doyle
22 Shinnie
Referee
Darren Sheldrake
Full Match Commentary on BBC Radio Norfolk 95.1FM 104.4FM & 855kHz MW with Chris Goreham and guest match summariser Adrian Forbes
OTBC
