I love this photo of me and I’ve been thinking about it and agonising over my body language for the past few couple of days.
On one hand, you can see the frustration ingrained throughout my face and body yet we’d just won 5:1. But I wasn’t totally happy with our performance for a variety of reasons and I came away disappointed and feeling a bit down.
I came to the game in a positive mood. I guess I wasn’t going to be beaten seeing as it was my birthday and the players came out with the same attitude. I just sensed Birmingham were there for the taking and felt if we went for it, we’d find success.
I’ve found this to be a deeply spiritual ritual. It sounds almost odd to say but it gets me in the mood and focused on the game ahead. There’s nothing like walking into a changing room and seeing those numbers on the wall and your kit ready. I’d like to think it adds a professional touch to the preparation and helps mentally prepare the players and get them in the zone. It certainly gets me in the mood!
I was pleased that we picked up another three points today but it wasn’t one of our better performances because for some reason or another, we struggled to get going.
I sensed early on that we could actually go on and win this game, but we just lacked that little bit of composure in the final third to create that one golden opportunity that I think we’d have taken had it arrived.
But there’s no point dwelling on what could have been, because this was a very good performance for so many reasons. It’s been a long time since I remember that I really felt like the players were playing for the shirt, or for Gareth, or maybe both!
It feels like a long time ago now since we had just one manager in charge for an entire season and I was hoping that we’d get ourselves back on track in this campaign, but the dreaded 15 games in struck again for Iain Dowie.
I’m really sorry it didn’t work out for him, because he’s a bright young man who does a lot of good scientific work on the training pitch to prepare players physically for a long hard season.
What was up with the scoreboard showing Nottingham Forest as “N/Forest”? It’s so wrong and odd looking that it probably distracted the players. I mean, come on, “N.Forest” or “N Forest”, but never “N/Forest”! It’s the little details that makes football “football” guys. It’s probably just me. I know, I’m a freak. 
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