Two league games and a cup-tie in, Birmingham City have made a positive start to the 2025/26 campaign and quite frankly, if the season ended with Blues where they are now in sixth – after a single match home and away – and undefeated in the Carabao Cup we’d all take it.

Despite laying waste to League One last term and fortifying with some remarkable transfers so far this summer, there were still questions about how well they would adapt on their return to the Championship. They might even be in for a shock.

Especially with a first game against everyone’s early favourites Ipswich Town, recently relegated from the Premier League but having earned back to back promotions and created the blueprint for what the Toms Wagner and Brady are trying to achieve at St Andrew’s.

In the end the only

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