{"id":107331,"date":"2025-05-16T21:47:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107331\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T21:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:47:23","slug":"rob-mcelhenney-hails-brilliant-jay-stansfield-transfer-with-x-rated-birmingham-city-quip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107331\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob McElhenney hails brilliant Jay Stansfield transfer with X-rated Birmingham City quip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Birmingham City and Jay Stansfield are featured on the new season of Welcome to Wrexham\"WrexhamWrexham co-owner Rob McElhenney holds up a Birmingham City shirt gifted to him by Tom Brady<\/p>\n

Birmingham City feature heavily on the new season of Welcome to Wrexham \u2013 and Rob McElhenney is a big fan.<\/p>\n

Footage of Wrexham\u2019s 3-1 defeat to Blues at St Andrew\u2019s @ Knighthead Park in September<\/a> was captured and McElhenney was very complimentary of the work of Tom Wagner<\/a> and Tom Brady.<\/a><\/p>\n

Record signing Jay Stansfield<\/a> made his League One debut for Blues<\/a> that night and marked it with two goals to turn the game around after Jack Marriott\u2019s early opener. Tomoki Iwata notched Blues\u2019 third goal with a precise left-footed strike from range.<\/p>\n

Reacting to Stansfield\u2019s double, McElhenney said: \u201cTom Wagner and Tom Brady are investing in top-end talent, Jay Stansfield is a great example of that. They are paying \u00a315million just for the transfer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I guess the Toms didn\u2019t **** it up. Stansfield was worth it. Twice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey played like a class above. They put on a clinic and beat our ***. Just because we lost to them, it doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re going to lay down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look at Birmingham<\/a> as a great example of a tough town and a tough club who have been down before and risen up. They\u2019ve put the investment and the work in, now they\u2019re going to go out and try to dominate the league. I find that inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson was also fulsome in his praise of Chris Davies\u2019 team. The Red Dragons eventually finished runners-up to Blues in League One and the clubs will meet again in next season\u2019s Championship.<\/p>\n

Parkinson commented: \u201cWe didn\u2019t respond as well as I would have liked, but we\u2019ve got to respect that we are up against a team that is probably top-eight Championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were disappointed, as you always are, and it jolted us because we\u2019re a team that\u2019s not used to getting beat. It knocked us a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do Wrexham have any hope of narrowing the gap to Blues next season? Have your say here<\/a>\"\"Birmingham City Champions 2024\/25 <\/p>\n

RECORD-BREAKING Birmingham City are back in the Championship.<\/p>\n

Chris Davies’ side passed the 100-point mark on their way to taking the League One title this season.<\/p>\n

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And this Birmingham Mail promotion special<\/a> charts the brilliant Blues’ path to glory, with match-by-match analysis, reaction, comment, brilliant celebration pictures and a Champions poster in the middle pages.<\/p>\n

Buy now<\/a> and have it delivered directly to your door. Alternatively you can purchase in most supermarkets, high street retailers and independent newsagents in Birmingham <\/strong>from May 9, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City and Jay Stansfield are featured on the new season of Welcome to WrexhamWrexham co-owner Rob McElhenney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,748,393,4884,1206,8160,8161,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-107331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-fc","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-jay-stansfield","14":"tag-tom-brady","15":"tag-tom-wagner","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114519713582465988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}