Tom Brady sent ‘patience running thin’ warning after ambitious Premier League claims & failed Wayne Rooney experiment – with NFL legend facing relegation threat at Birmingham· American football icon is a Blues investor· Intention was to push for prom

Birmingham City ripped apart Coventry, Southampton are finding a winning consistency just at the right time and Ozan Tufan is inspiring a late surge from Hull City. All this and more from the latest round of the Championship.

Sean Cole is a freelance journalist. He has written for FourFourTwo, BBC Sport and When Saturday Comes among others. A Birmingham City supporter and staunch Nikola Zigic advocate, he once scored a hat-trick at St. Andrew’s (in a half-time game).

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