Chris Hughton: Pleased Blues are competitive going into the last six games of season
Birmingham boss Chris Hughton believes the club are in the best-case scenario as they attempt to gain promotion back to the Premier League.
Hughton took over at St Andrew's in the summer and has guided the Blues to fourth place in the Championship with six games remaining.
This achievement has come despite the added pressures of playing in the Europa League and player sales following relegation, and the Blues boss is enjoying the lack of 'airs and graces' at the club as he plots a promotion push.
He told The Independent: "Where we are now is probably the best-case scenario. We knew, with the volume of games we had, it would be very difficult to get automatic promotion.
"Where we are now is probably the best-case scenario. We knew, with the volume of games we had, it would be very difficult to get automatic promotion."
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"It was really about, 'Could we be competitive going into the last six games', and we have done that.
"It's been manic and we've almost got used to it. We have played a game on average every 4.5 days. We played Cardiff on Sunday and Doncaster last Friday. It felt like a week with no games between them. That actually felt quite good. It was probably the first time we'd had time off in nine months.
"I said when I took the job at Birmingham it was almost the working man's club. That's what I felt.
"It has a real tradition of hard workers and supporters who support this club for years, with no airs and graces. They see it as it is and they say it as it is. It's really nice to be involved in that.
"The no airs and graces suits me. This is what it is. You have to work around what the circumstances are. You want people around you to work hard. I have a lot of down-to-earth people at this football club."
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