Goodness me, that'll be talked about after the game. Coventry City go 1-0 up against the home side in very controversial circumstances. A Birmingham defender (Liam Ridgewell, it looks like) was down on the ground in rather obvious pain, but the referee did not stop play and Marlon King kept going, racing towards Colin Doyle's goal and sweeping in a delicious shot at the far post. Alex McLeish is incensed, always a wonderful sight - his team should have been 1-0 up and now they're behind after that frankly rude goal.
Birmingham City Vs. Coventry City: Marlon King Scores Controversial Goal
Immediately before King's opener, Keiran Westwood pulled off a fabulous save to deny striker Kevin Phillips, who received a tasty cross after David Bentley released David Murphy on an overlapping run, only to see his close range header pushed onto the crossbar by Coventry's highly rated goalkeeper. Philips hasn't really been having a good game so far. His previous attempt at goal had been an ambitious twenty yard shot, and unless his ambition was to push the ball at four miles an hour straight towards Westwood, he didn't do a very good job with it. Anyway, 1-0 to the Championship team. Birmingham will have to step things up here.
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