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Time to enjoy Blues' purple patch
A blue banner with the words 'Fan's Voice' written across in white lettering next to the Birmingham City club badge
A smiling Liam Millar in a blue Birmingham City shirt

Three games in a week, nine points, three clean sheets - this is not typical Blues.

Being a football fan is an odd thing; when things are going well, you move away from your usual state of depression into worrying about when the bubble is going to burst.

I will therefore put my natural pessimism aside and try to enjoy our purple patch.

Liam Millar has now clocked up seven goal involvements in seven games and I am hoping there is an option to get him on a permanent basis like we did with Patrick Roberts last season. His contributions on Saturday were one of the highlights of an excellent team performance.

To be honest, I had been eyeing this game as a tough one compared to Tuesday night's against Preston, as it was fourth v fifth and we were level on points with QPR.

As it was, their attacking outlets found themselves limited; Paul Smyth was muscled out of the game by Bright Osayi-Samuel, and the Christoph Klarer-Phil Neumann brick wall was very effective in limiting Kwame Poku and Rayan Kolli.

I also need to give a couple of other shout-outs to members of the team, first to Tomoki Iwata. He has been the subject of grumbling from some Blues fans, but set up both of Millar's goals and is playing some really good football at the moment.

Secondly, to Jay Stansfield. He is instrumental in the way Blues play the press, forcing opposition players into mistakes, such as the one that led to our first goal on Saturday.

Demarai Gray's stoppage-time goal was a thing of beauty, and the icing on the cake for this week. Right now, Blues are operating really well.

Players like Millar are being allowed to play with freedom and we seem to have taken a big step away from the 'possession but no outlet' football of last season that many fans were frustrated by.

Chris Davies did say he had learnt some lessons and so far, he is doing well putting them into practice. It is a thumbs-up from me.

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