Birmingham City star is back to his best

Mar 19 2009 by Colin Tattum, Birmingham Mail

“I don’t mean from Larsson, but if he had been 100 per cent the whole season, we would probably have been picking our days when to rest him because he would have been an ever present in that kind of form.”

Larsson’s relentless industry and his top-notch delivery of the ball, over short range or distance, has been a huge plus of late. McLeish joked: “I said to him the other day that he needs to work on his fitness!

“I have never seen a guy work so hard, and then there’s his distribution and crossing.

“The technique, only he could play in a ball like that at Doncaster Rovers. It came out of the sky and it was a good header by Cameron Jerome, but Larsson’s delivery is the kind of a Beckham.

“It’s great to see him playing to the level of the Seb Larsson of old again.”

The arrival of Scott Sinclair on loan from Chelsea, who was initially given the right wing berth, and Larsson having to do a turn as an emergency right-back at the end of February, also seemed to focus him.