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Birmingham City Vs. Coventry City: Birmingham Cannot Defend Corners

Liam Ridgewell is running around just fine, which must make him feel even sillier than he usually does for a) being named Liam and b) playing for Birmingham. The centre-back's curious decision to fall over in a heap in the middle of the pitch is one of the major reasons his side are behind right now. Coventry are slinging long passes in his general direction, obviously hoping he'll repeat his earlier antics, but nothing doing there.

Speaking of nothing doing - do Birmingham practice corner defence? If so, they're either a very unorthadox team or their whole back line just earned themselves three days of having to watch Birmingham vs. Blackburn replays. After the visitors won a corner on the right, Colin Doyle came out for the inswinger, decided not to take the catch, and watched with horror as his defence opted not to bother heading it, either. Coventry were bamboozled by this hilarious display of ineptitude and their attackers watched bemused as the ball deflected off Nikola Zigic, bounced in the middle of the box, and ran behind for another corner. And now here's another one. Let's see what amusement stems from this...

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