The Sunday Mercury, as even-handed as ever.

[dave.woodhall]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/blues-stars-mitch-hancox-nick-6142569

[eastie]

How bizarre!

[Chris Smith]

If they could get all 12,000 of them behind the campaign, there really would be no stopping them.

[Nev]

Even the non-league coverage can't convince me to part with cash for that rag.

I'd rather they backed Small Heath than us anyway, they are comfortable bedfellows.

[Martyn Smith]

Page 3 of today's Sunday Mercury has a feature on a council employee who is a burlesque compere in this spare time. I don't know if the article mentions that he is also a season-ticket holder at VP. Those who read my many and varied ramblings on Facebook will recognise the name of Tony 'T-Rox' Cowdrill.

[PeterWithesShin]

I wouldn't wipe my arse with that piece of shit rag. Still, I bet it increased their sales in Solihull.

[curiousorange]

This is a ridiculous campaign. I get the 'promote Birmingham' angle, but why alienate supporters of the best team the city's ever going to have?

[PeterWithesShin]

This is a ridiculous campaign. I get the 'promote Birmingham' angle, but why alienate supporters of the best team the city's ever going to have?

Maybe they were trying to promote the smallest minority group in Birmingham?

[dave.woodhall]

This is a ridiculous campaign. I get the 'promote Birmingham' angle, but why alienate supporters of the best team the city's ever going to have?

Because that lot will support it like lemmings while we, as ever, take no notice.

[PeterWithesShin]

If we took no notice we wouldn't have a thread about it would we? Or am I over thinking things?

[Ads]

I like the fact that the campaign is hitting back at the notion that Birmingham is second rate, yet they choose the Noses as evidence to the contrary.

[The Man With A Stick]

I have genuinely never heard of either of them.  Though apart from Zigic, I couldn't name a single member of their squad without looking it up.

As for the campaign, the rest of the country will really sit up and notice with two unknown third-rate plodders, a comedian who was last funny in the eighties and a washed-up prick from ELO on board.  Well done the Mail and Mercury, no honestly, well done.  It's no wonder we're a laughing stock.

[Pete3206]

Meh. Two things that will happen with that campaign. Ridicule, followed by a quick death.

[CJ]

 "...Brummies really are brilliant". Couldn't help reading that bit in Father Ted voice

[Legion]

Brummies are bostin'.