Those were the days

Re 'guess the team'.

Yup, it was the side that played Oxford United at St Andrew's on March 6, 1993, the first game of the David Sullivan era.

Sullivan completed the purchase of the club a couple of days earlier and later invited the Gold brothers on board.

Remember the Daily Sport dancers on the pitch and Karren Brady, wearing some kind of pink puffa jacket if I remember rightly, being introduced by Jack Wiseman?

Paul Peschisolido got the only goal in the 29th minute and 11,104 turned up for the latest 'rebirth of the Blues'.

A few weeks later George Parris, David Smith, Richard Dryden, Paul Moulden and Andy Saville were recruited by manager Terry Cooper.

Blues stayed up in the old Division Two on the final day, Moulden's suspiciously looking offside goal beating Charlton Athletic at St Andrew's.

Sullivan - who speaks revealingly about his 15th anniversary in charge in tonight's Birmingham Mail - came to the rescue after Blues spent five months in Receivership.

Two days after the Kumar empire was plunged into turmoil by the BCCI crash in November 1992, Blues went to Bristol City and crashed 3-0.

Ian Clarkson and Darran Rowbotham were sent-off and who got a hat-trick for the Robins? A certain Andy Cole.

That season, Steve Bruce led Manchester United to their first Premier League title (the American franchise from across the road were runners-up), Newcastle United won Division One and Cardiff City the old Division Four title.

Steve Vickers (for Tranmere Rovers) and Martin O'Connor (Walsall) scored in their respective play-off semi-finals, both lost.

Memories, eh?