船体 0 Birmingham 1: Brilliant Boaz finally beaten by 最高の sub O'Connor

By 示す Ryan Updated: 01:19 BST, 20 September 2009

Alex McLeish was so short of players for the trip to troubled 船体 that he had 召喚する Garry O'Connor from his sickbed to sit on a dep leted subs' （法廷の）裁判.

And in the 75th minute the Birmingham 経営者／支配人 was rewarded for his 決定／判定勝ち（する） to call on O'Connor's services.

Keith Fahey sent over a corner, 船体's defence dithered and O'Connor, who had been on the field for 15 minutes, 供給するd the 殺し屋 blow in the form of a 弾丸-like header.

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Having come into the game with just six 交替／補充s, McLeish had every 推論する／理由 to feel proud of his men for 安全な・保証するing the club's first away points of the season.

Phil Brown, in contrast, was seething: 'What 関心s me is the mentality of players defending 始める，決める-pieces and that comes 負かす／撃墜する to individuals,' he said.

'For someone to walk into our six-yard box and get a 解放する／自由な header has to be 演説（する）／住所d. When Birmingham come here with six subs and have 10 負傷させるd players, 明白に there is an 適切な時期 - but we didn't take it.'

High and mighty: Garry O'Connor celebrates after 得点する／非難する／２０ing with team mate Barry Ferguson

McLeish could afford a wry smile as he looked 支援する on the moment he 説得するd O'Connor to travel. 'Garry was on his sickbed on Thursday, （機の）カム in on Friday for a 20-minute jog and some fresh 空気／公表する, then looked at me with puppy-dog 注目する，もくろむs, probably hoping to go home. He had a stomach bug, which he had 選ぶd up through his family, so it was contagious.

'I told him we would put him in a car instead of him travelling on the coach, and then we would give him a 選び出す／独身 room when he got here. This morning he （機の）カム 負かす／撃墜する 有望な and bubbly, devoured his breakfast and said he was 利用できる. I said he was really needed.'

最高の sub: Garry O'Connor （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域s the 集まりd 船体 defence to 長，率いる home the 勝利者

And once Christian 'Chucho' Benitez had 戦う／戦いd manfully for the best part of an hour with four stitches in a headwound, it was （疑いを）晴らす the 堅い guy from Ecuador needed some help up 前線. Enter O'Connor.

'It was a fantastic 勝利，勝つ,' 追加するd McLeish. 'We （機の）カム here with 16 外野 players but I knew we had a pretty good team out on the pitch.'

船体 boss Brown （人命などを）奪う，主張するd his 味方する should have had a 位置／汚点／見つけ出す-kick when Stephen 追跡（する） was 床に打ち倒すd. 'It looked like a stonewall 刑罰，罰則 to me,' Brown 主張するd.

船体 captain Ibrahima Sonko also 攻撃する，衝突する the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 in the の近くにing 行う／開催する／段階s but McLeish's men somehow 生き残るd.

It could be a long season for 船体 but Birmingham will stay up if they show this sort of spirit.