The only place to start your journey on foot to St. Andrew’s in 2025 is Adderley Park train station, a small building with a brown corrugated iron roof and steps down to the platforms.

As you take the 20-minute walk down Bordesley Green Road before turning right along Cattell Road or Garrison Lane, you pass an area of brownfield land that is derelict, surrounded by wooden fences and metal crash barriers. This is where Birmingham City’s future may lie.

That land, a 48-acre site in an area of Birmingham that no local could argue does not need some money, care and love, was the home of Birmingham Wheels Go Kart track and had out-of-service industrial buildings. In six years, Birmingham City hope that it will be transformed.

St. Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park, to give it the officially branded

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