Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest | England)
"It is one that is working well both ways. We know the ability that he has got and he is able to do it on a regular basis now and we are delighted he is showing the form he is showing."
Europa League Thu 15 - SC Braga (H)
Championship Sun 18 - Southampton (A)
Carling Cup Wed 21 - Manchester City (A)
Championship Sat 24 - Barnsley (H)
Championship Tue 27 - Leeds (H)
But wouldn't be entirely surprises if gets rotated with all games coming up plus king and zigic needing game time.
stewiew_t on Twitter: "Chris Wood - First New Zealander to score a hat-trick in European football, I think."
Can anyone clear this up? Is Wood even the first New Zealander to score a hat-trick in English football? Ceri Evans only scored about three in total for Oxford Utd, so that rules him out.
All Whites midfielder Ivan Vicelich scored a rare hat-trick in helping his Dutch club side Roda JC to a 5-1 home win over Ado Den Haag.
Vicelich opened the scoring after 17 minutes when he gathered an Edrissa Sonko header and blasted the ball beyond goalkeeper Rolan Janssen.
Cijs Cales equalised for the visitors a couple of minutes later, but Vicelich had the home side back in front before halftime.
Roda stretched their lead to 4-1 before Vicelich headed home an Erik Addo cross to complete his hat-trick a minute before time.
The win took them up to seventh place on the Dutch first division table.
"Birmingham City owner Carson Yeung, who has been charged with money-laundering in Hong Kong, has been denied permission to travel to Britain -- a day before his planned departure.
The High Court allowed a prosecution appeal and reversed a ruling made by the district court last month which had given Yeung, a former hairdresser, permission to leave Hong Kong.
The tycoon had planned to travel to Britain for four days
from Thursday to attend to his duties at the debt-ridden football club,
which was relegated from the Premiership last season.
The club's fortunes however have gone downhill. They were
relegated from the Premiership three months after winning the League
Cup amid financial troubles. "
Did not see the game but ZB reporting that birmingham lost 3-1 but Wood laid on Birminghams Goal�
I don't think he assisted the goal. The Birmingham City FC official website describes it as Chris Burke ran down the wing and crossed it past the keeper for King to tap in. Apart from noting him coming on as the weekend's hero, he didn't get a mention. Which means he didn't do many good or bad things.
Yea he was crap, came on at 2 nil down against a better team and didn't score a hat trick, what a donkey he is.
birmingham are 3=1 down atm.. but a good goal
this loan deal is going incredibly well
thats what the YF did with mccalister
Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini will name a much-changed team to the one that drew with Fulham on Sunday.
Owen Hargreaves is expected to make his first appearance for the club, while Stefan Savic and Costel Pantilimon are set to make their full debuts.
Carling Cup holders Birmingham may rest key players given the fixture congestion caused by their participation in the Europa League.
Striker Adam Rooney is expected to replace Marlon King in attack.
some did
And the Wembley goalscorer got a great reception from the travelling Blues fans.
Looking in good nick and keen, Zigic's introduction heralded a shift to 4-4-2 by Blues, Beausejour going inside to support him.
Zigic's presence certainly gave Manchester something to think about.
From one Beausejour corner he speared a header from deep towards goal and David Murphy was not too far away from glancing it in, although he fouled Wayne Bridge in the process.
King then came on to partner Zigic - a pointer to the coming weeks, surely"
http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/birmingham-city-fc/birmingham-city-fc-news/2011/09/22/manchester-city-2-birmngham-city-0-colin-tattum-s-big-match-verdict-and-player-ratings-97319-29467526/2/#ixzz1YgBHC1D2
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I would guess the logic is that since it's a short-term loan, and West Brom may be looking at having Wood back during the season, they probably think that he'd be able to get most game time in the Carling Cup for them, so they don't want him cup-tied.
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I would guess the logic is that since it's a short-term loan, and West Brom may be looking at having Wood back during the season, they probably think that he'd be able to get most game time in the Carling Cup for them, so they don't want him cup-tied.
http://www.football-league.co.uk/championship/news/20111002/forest-beaten-again_2293322_2470239