Birch & Stern Stay At Home

Last updated : 04 September 2006 By Covsupport

City winger Chris Birchall and striker Stern John were saved a trip to the Caribbean when Trinidad's internationals versus Mexico and Columbia were cancelled.

New T&T boss Wim Rijsbergen had called up both Birchall and Stern John but a number of managers were not prepared to release players for the two games and they were cancelled.

Birchall told The Birmingham Post said: "We were going to go out for the Mexico game, but the Colombia match was in midweek which meant us flying back on the Friday before the game with Norwich next Saturday.

"I don't think the boss was too keen on us getting back that late. Trinidad's on the other side of the world. Our bread and butter's at Coventry and we don't want to upset anyone."