Birmingham City scoreboard will be a memorial to Jeff Hall

Feb 22 2008 By Colin Tattum, Birmingham Mail

A BIG-SCREEN electronic scoreboard is finally going to go up at St Andrew's.

The club have announced it will be erected at the corner of the Main Stand and Railway End, possibly before the season's end.

And MD Karren Brady has revealed a memorial to Jeff Hall will form part of the structure.

It will be 50 years ago next year that Hall died from polio, aged just 29.

Seventeen times-capped by England, full-back Hall won a Second Division Championship medal in 1955 and was part of the team that reached the 1956 FA Cup final.

The Jeff Hall Memorial Clock and Scoreboard was torn down in 1993 when the Kop was redeveloped from terracing to an all-seater stand.

Fans have campaigned for a replacement and a fitting tribute to Hall, who made 264 appearances.

Blues had hoped to erect a big-screen electronic scoreboard last season, using the one seen in the summer at Wimbledon on "Henman Hill", but ran into planning difficulties.

Brady said: "A new electronic scoreboard will be going up. I hope it will be done before the end of this season, but it will be definitely ready for the start of next season.

"That's where the memorial will be, and we are aware it's 50 years next year.

"I do apologise to supporters that it's a long time coming, but we do squeeze our deals as hard as we can and take them down to the wire."