Champions Birmingham set a brand new EFL factors file and racked up one other membership landmark by beating Blackpool 2-0 of their penultimate Sky Wager League One fixture earlier than promotion to the Championship.

A thirty third win of the season got here due to targets by Ethan Laird and Alfie Could which took Blues as much as 108 factors, two higher than Studying’s earlier greatest set of their 2005-06 title-winning Championship marketing campaign.

Metropolis, who end their historic season at relegated Cambridge on Saturday, have now gained 14 away matches within the league, bettering the earlier better of 13 established in 1984/85.

Regardless of celebrating a title success solely final Sunday, Birmingham by no means regarded like struggling a hangover towards their former gaffer Steve Bruce.

Goalkeeper Harry Taylor denied Willum Willumsson and Laird earlier than the latter headed the guests in entrance after 39 minutes from Marc Leonard’s inswinging nook.

Could doubled the benefit together with his seventeenth objective of the season six minutes after the restart to seal victory.

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