The
1907–08 English football season was
Birmingham Football Club
Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. Since 2011, the first te ...
's 16th in
the Football League and their 8th in the
First Division. They were in the
relegation positions by mid-October, and only once, briefly, rose above them, finishing bottom of the 20-team league, four points adrift of safety, and were
relegated to the
Second Division for 1908–09. They also took part in the
1907–08 FA Cup
The 1907–08 FA Cup was the 37th staging of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). Wolverhampton Wanderers won the competition for the second time, beating ...
, entering at the first round proper and losing in that round to
West Bromwich Albion after a
replay
Replay may refer to:
* Replay (sports), a replayed match between two sport teams Technology
* Game replay, a recording of a game session.
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* Replay Professional, ...
.
Alf Jones stepped down as secretary-manager at the end of the season. Jones began acting as unpaid secretary for Small Heath Alliance in 1885, the year the club turned professional, became their first paid secretary with responsibility for team matters in 1892, when the club first joined the Football League, and had held the post of secretary-manager ever since. He was succeeded by
Alex Watson.
Twenty-eight players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were ten different goalscorers. Forward
Benny Green played in 38 of the 40 matches over the season.
Edmund Eyre
Edmund Eyre (23 December 1882 – 1972), also known by the nickname of Ninty Eyre, was an English professional footballer who played as an outside left. He spent much of his playing career in the First Division of the Football League with ...
was leading scorer with nine goals; in the league, Eyre and Green each scored eight.
Shortly before the match against
Nottingham Forest in February was due to start, a severe gale blew sections of the corrugated-iron roof off the grandstand. Although the match went ahead, it was abandoned after 35 minutes because of the wind.
[Severe Gale. ''The Times'' (London). p. 10. 24 February 1908.]
Great Storm. Football Stand Dangers. ''The Manchester Guardian''. p. 7. 24 February 1908. "At Birmingham, as people were assembling for the match between Birmingham and Notts Forest, the wind carried off a large portion of the iron roofing sheets of the grand stand. About 20 feet of sheet-iron was lifted into the air, twisted round and round like so much paper, and finally deposited on a piece of waste ground about fifty yards away. There were not more than a thousand spectators present at the time, and a number of these immediately left the ground. The grand stand was cleared, as portions of the woodwork showed signs of giving way. An attempt was made to play the match, but before half-time the game was stopped."
Football League First Division
League table (part)
FA Cup
Appearances and goals
: This table includes appearances and goals in nationally organised competitive matchesthe Football League and FA Cuponly.
: For a description of the playing positions, see
Formation (association football)#2–3–5 (Pyramid).
: Players marked left the club during the playing season.
See also
*
Birmingham City F.C. seasons
Birmingham City Football Club, an association football club based in Birmingham, England, was founded in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance. For the first thirteen years of their existence, there was no league football, so matches were arranged on a ...
References
General
* Matthews, Tony (1995). ''Birmingham City: A Complete Record''. Breedon Books (Derby). .
* Matthews, Tony (2010). ''Birmingham City: The Complete Record''. DB Publishing (Derby). .
* Source for match dates and results
"Birmingham City 1907–1908: Results" Statto Organisation. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
* Source for lineups, appearances, goalscorers and attendances: Matthews (2010), ''Complete Record'', pp. 260–61. Note that attendance figures are estimated.
* Source for kit
''Historical Football Kits''. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
Specific
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