Birmingham City are trying to be like Wrexham. Or at least that’s according to some reviews of the umpteenth fly-on-the-wall football documentary, Built in Birmingham: Brady & the Blues.

The comparisons are inevitable. Here are two American-run clubs who have just been promoted to the Championship harbouring much-broadcasted ambitions of not only reaching the Premier League but staying there.

And both are now closer to realising this goal than they have been for years, with Wrexham preparing for a first season in the second tier since 1981-82, and Blues a far cry from their previous Championship guise that was largely staving off relegation.

After seven seasons of finishing between 17th and 20th, dropping down to League One was an inevitability, but it also sparked perhaps one of the

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