Blues set for Amazon doc as fans head to Wembley

Newly promoted Birmingham City has announced it will be the subject of a new documentary, produced by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.

The Blues will appear on the Amazon Prime series this summer giving fans a look behind the scenes as they are promoted to the EFL Sky Bet Championship.

It comes as more than 40,000 fans are expected to travel to Wembley Stadium on Sunday as the team takes on Peterborough in the final of the Vertu Trophy.

Fans including comedian Jasper Carrot have expressed their excitement for the cup final, which Birmingham last won in 1995.

Carrott, real name Robert Davis, will be heading to the game on Sunday, and told BBC Radio WM as a child he never dreamt of being a comedy icon, or a pop star, he wanted to play for his beloved Birmingham City.

"The dream was to be a footballer, I started supporting Birmingham City when I was nine.

"The fourth game I went to we beat Liverpool 9-1, and that year we went up into the first division and the next year we were sixth in the first division, we got to the FA Cup Final, we lost to Man City, so I thought this is the side for me.

"This is my team... and 56 years later we won something."

Network Rail has said trains between Birmingham and London will be busier than usual and said fans should check before they travel.

Services will not call at Solihull, Dorridge, Hatton, Lapworth or Warwick on Sunday but extra services will run between Warwick Parkway to Wembley Stadium.

For fan Chris Jay, travelling by train is not something he needs to worry about.

He is travelling more than 4,000 miles from Atlanta, Georgia for the game on Sunday.

The Blues fan moved to America with his wife, Courtney Jay, in 2021 and said he had explained to her how "you don't get to Wembley very often being a Birmingham fan, so you do everything you can to get back."

He said: "My wife has come to Blues games and she understands how it is like a religion to us in Birmingham.

"I am looking forward to hopefully them lifting the trophy."

Micky Singh, from Hall Green, chair of supporters group Blues 4 All, has been a season ticket holder at St Andrew's for more than 20 years.

Ahead of travelling to the final with his children and grandchildren, he said: "It's amazing, you get to Wembley and you get to the Wembley steps... I'm looking forward to being there on Sunday, watching all the crowd with the family, so excited."

Sarah Tullett, Blues fan and landlady of the Hunting Tree in Halesowen where a coach is heading to Wembley, said she is opening up earlier to accommodate fans.

"We have got a coach, we are putting breakfast on...it's going to be great."

Birmingham City play Peterborough United FC in the Vertu Trophy Final on Sunday at 15:00 BST.

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