BIRMINGHAM City continued their disgusting denegration of the world outside England's second city last weekend.

Following their description of Bolton in the previous game's official programme as a grim town full of Mancunians they had a cheap and nasty pot shot at Preston in the Bolton programme.

Preston, according to Birmingham City FC is full of people wearing flat caps with limited intelligence and barking in their own indiscriminate dialect.

Why a Premiership football club feels the need to authorise such a distasteful campaign of abuse of other towns is beyond all decency.

After visiting Birmingham on Saturday to cover Bolton Wanderers I was left with the feeling that people in glass houses should not throw offensive jibes about other places.

My lasting impression of St Andrews was hardly a glowing one. As I walked out of the main stand and alongside rat infested, derelict flats no more than ten yards away, I wondered how a club could be so stupid as to situate home supporters directly above visiting fans and why supporters of the club should feel the need to throw an endless amount of coins at the heads of men, women and children in the visiting enclosure.