McLeish euphoric as Birmingham overcome Wolves

Apr 7 2009 by Andy Walker, Birmingham Post

Alex McLeish hailed the steel of ten-man Birmingham City as they muscled their way into contention for the Championship title at St Andrew’s last night.

Goals in either half for Cameron Jerome and Garry O’Connor sealed a victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers that moved Birmingham to within two points of their table-topping rivals.

However, after an encouraging start, the home side could have seen their hopes dashed when they lost captain Lee Carsley to a red-card in the first-half following a horrendous challenge on Wolves striker Chris Iwelumo.

Rather than dent Birmingham’s hopes, the incident appeared to affect the visitors from the Black Country more and the Blues went on to gain what could ultimately end up being a silverware- winning victory.

Delighted manager McLeish was left to crow.

“We are very euphoric in there (the dressing room), it was a great performance and we had everything tonight with the drama in the game,” declared McLeish. “Great goals but superb work-rate and organisation from my team and they were absolutely magnificent.