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<\/p>\nBirmingham City announced this week that chairman Tom Wagner is recovering from a stroke<\/p>\n
Birmingham City chairman Tom Wagner and manager Chris Davies<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s FA Cup clash with Leeds United will be tinged with emotion as Birmingham City<\/a> supporters prepare to rally behind chairman Tom Wagner.<\/a><\/p>\n It was revealed earlier this week that Knighthead<\/a> frontman Wagner, 56, is currently recovering from a stroke.<\/a><\/p>\n The Leeds match, which will be screened live on TNT Sports, is the first game at St Andrew\u2019s since Wagner\u2019s illness became public knowledge and tributes are planned.<\/p>\n Ensure our latest headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The official supporters club, which works alongside the club, are organising a banner to be displayed inside St Andrew\u2019s and a minute\u2019s applause is planned for the 13th minute.<\/p>\n Wagner\u2019s lucky number is said to be 13 and it was July 13, 2023 that American hedge fund Knighthead took control of Blues.<\/p>\n Blues manager Chris Davies<\/a> is hoping to deliver a victory against Leeds for the man that appointed him and he has reminded his players that Wagner was instrumental in signing each and every one of them.<\/p>\n Davies said: \u201cWe were shocked and very concerned to hear the news. Tom\u2019s the driving force behind Knighthead and has obviously been a big part of it since I\u2019ve been here.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s someone I respect greatly and think a lot of. I said to the players that he\u2019s pretty much brought every single player that\u2019s here to the club as well.<\/p>\n \u201cFirst thoughts go to him and his family in a very difficult situation because the football side pales into insignificance when you think of health and everything else.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I would say is that every update I\u2019ve got is that he\u2019s recovering very well and is very positive. He received quick treatment, which is critical in those situations and he\u2019s improving.<\/p>\n \u201cI know the people at Knighthead really well, I know Andrew Shanahan will be here for the game on Sunday, Ara Cohen who is the co-founder will also be here. They have been very quick to get together and show that solidarity and I know we\u2019ll do that as a club.\u201d<\/p>\n Get the latest Blues headlines sent straight to your phone<\/p>\n BirminghamLive has its very own Birmingham City<\/a> WhatsApp community to deliver the latest headlines straight to your phone. Just click this link<\/a> to receive daily Blues content and breaking news. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out any time you like. Click on the name at the top of your screen while in WhatsApp and click ‘Exit Group’. Read our Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City announced this week that chairman Tom Wagner is recovering from a stroke Birmingham City chairman Tom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,748,8372,393,4884,8161,16,15],"class_list":["post-762474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-city-fc","tag-britain","tag-chris-davies-football-coach","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-tom-wagner","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762474","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=762474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}