Euphoric after their victory over Arsenal in the Carling Cup final, Birmingham City may be the only one of our 5 Premiersip teams from the West Midlands to win any decent silver ware in the 2010-11 season, but in the Braggers' League they look certain to finish in bottom place having lost four of their seven local derbies so far this season with only one derby left to go to gain three points.
Just one week after their big trip to Wembley the feelgood factor was knocked out of the Blues by the Baggies in an incredible 3-1 win to the Black Country visitors. The win took Albion off the bottom of the Braggers' table and puts them on level pegging with Villa with the slimmest of goal differences seperating 2nd and 3rd place.
Albion had earned an additional Braggers' League point at the end of February with a 1-1 draw at Stoke.
The reality of the Braggers' League has been that there is very little between our 5 West Midlands teams in the Premiership and even leaders Stoke can still be easily leap-frogged by Villa, Albion or Wolves for the champions place at the top. Amazingly Wolves still have 4 local derby matches to play this season and will face Stoke, Villa, Albion and Blues in the remaining couple of months.
It's all still to play for in terms of Braggers' rights in this monumental season when 5 West Midlands teams met in the top flight for the first time in decades. But will they all survive in the Premiership on the final day of reckoning?
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