Birmingham City: Why Blues aren't worried about relegation

Oct 19 2010 by Colin Tattum, Birmingham Mail

ROGER Johnson today insisted that relegation was the last thing on Blues’ minds.

But the influential centre-half accepted Saturday’s game against Blackpool at St Andrew’s was a must win.

“Of course we’re concerned,” he said. “Eight games in, it is early. But games will tick away if we don’t start picking up results.

“The target for every Premier League team in our position is a point a game, and we’re below that at the minute.

“It’s not gone for us, we’re lacking goals. Nikola Zigic got his first one, that’s great, and hopefully he will kick on now and get a few more.

“We have made some bad errors, we’ve been getting some bad decisions against us, which aren’t helping, a bit of bad luck with own goals and stuff and penalty decisions.

“When we are conceding goals – apart from the West Brom game – we’re not getting opened up. We are still quite solid defensively.

“It’s just in that final third we don’t seem to be getting the goals ourselves.

“Yes, of course, Blackpool is now important. We’re at home, we need to win the game. We have to win the game. Simple.

“But there’s no panic at all. We’re far too good to go down. There’s enough belief in that dressing room. We’ve got some great players, a good squad and relegation is not even in our minds.”