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Scott Wright announced himself to his new public by ramming home a debut goal to give Birmingham City their first home win under new manager Chris Davies.
The 27-year-old, a deadline day signing from Rangers, produced an emphatic finish to seal a 2-1 victory that had at times been very much up for debate.
Blues went in front through the clinical Alfie May, were pegged back by Thelo Aasgaard – more of which later – before Wright crashed home the winner.
The result lifts Blues to third in the embryonic table, not that it means much at this stage, other than the fact their results have been where they need to be if Championship status is to be regained at the first time of asking. They have now won three of their first four games and are level with Stockport and Wrexham on ten points.
But at this stage of the season it’s as much about performances as results – and here’s what stood out on an enjoyable afternoon at St Andrew’s.
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Let’s not lose sight of the main thing, Saturday was another good day for Birmingham City. Tony Mowbray returned to the ground for the first time since being forced to take a leave of absence, nothing is more important than someone’s health.
Blues paraded huge-money signing Jay Stansfield before kick-off and more than 27,000 watched Chris Davies' side secure a win with an injury time goal from a deadline days signing in front of the Tilton. Saturdays don’t get much better than that.
But that’s not to say the afternoon couldn’t have been even better. Blues started fast in the first minute, got sucked into a bit of to and fro, then hit their stride after May gave them the lead.
However, they were flat for 25 minutes of the second half, Shaun Maloney’s half-time decision to change Dion Rankine from the left to the right wing and replace James Carragher with Steven Sessegnon paid real dividends and the visitors created several chances.
They deserved to equalise but perhaps not in the manner they did as Bailey Peacock-Farrell allowed a pretty tame effort from Aasgaard to slither through his grasp. It was the second time in two games the goalkeeper had gifted a goal to the opposition.
Chris Davies excused the first one, away to Leyton Orient when he was caught in possession trying to acquiesce with his manager’s demands and play out from the back. He insisted he’d never criticise a player for trying to do the ‘right thing’.
However, this was just a plain gaffe and – as we’ve said let’s not lose sight of the main thing – which for a goalkeeper is keeping the ball out of the net. Peacock-Farrell can't afford many of these Blues won’t always be able to manufacture a late winner and Davies does have a very, very credible Plan B with Ryan Allsop sitting on the bench.
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The feeling going into the game was one of excitement. Blues played their deadline day to perfection, indeed their entire transfer window looks on first impressions to have been very, very successful. Amazing how much more straightforward it is when you’ve got engaged owners willing to spend money.
Never was that more evident than at 11pm on Friday night when the rumours came to fruition and Blues confirmed Jay Stansfield had returned to the club permanently, on a seven-year contact no less. How much did he cost? Honestly I don’t know.
Fulham seemed to have been briefing that they’d got £15million plus £5m in add-ons and a 20 per cent sell-on. Those figures have been denied in conversations at this end – but those conversations never conclude in a different figure, nor indeed any figure at all. Blues stance seems to be: ‘That’s wrong but we’re not telling you what’s right’.
Anyway, the maxim says you should never fall in love with a loan player, unless of course they fall in love with you too and Stansfield seems to have done just that. Davies suggested afterwards he had the pick of the Championship but it was his relationship with the club and their supporters that meant it was effectively a one-horse race.
The 21-year-old was introduced to the crowd to a fanfare of ‘Stanno’ and flame-throwers as St Andrew’s rose in appreciation. Blues have a quartet of strikers that would be the envy of most Championship teams. May is so much more than an arch-poacher, Lyndon Dykes more than a target man, Lukas Jutkiewicz is probably does what it says on the tin but Stansfield offers real tactical flexibility.
It’s easy to see him coming off the left of a 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3, running behind, going round the back or even being deployed as a No. 10. The options are as mind-boggling as the fee, whatever that was.
This was the third time in four League One matches that Blues substitutes have provided either a goal or an assist and with each occasion Davies’ assertion that players are either starters or finishers, rather than first XI and subs, looks more than mere sugar-coating.
Indeed the manager reiterated afterwards that Blues are designed to be strong late in games, the starters tenderising the opposition by making them cover huge distances before fatigue sets in and fresh replacements come on to exploit the space that has emerged.
Davies effectively doubled down on that claiming that Wigan were not unlucky to be reduced to ten men when they ran out of substitutes and couldn’t replace the injured Steven Sessegnon, but that they had been played into that position by Blues.
Sometimes though it’s just a good old tactical switch that pays dividends and that was certainly how it felt here. May wasn’t having too much joy dropping off to link play that would eventually find him in the box. By contrast Dykes gave the team a focal point, someone to tie up the Wigan centre backs and stop them shadowing May wherever he went. Dykes was only on the pitch for 17 minutes plus added time and he still won more headers than everyone bar Krystian Bielik. It was his presence that created confusion and the string of corners with which Blues eventually won the game.
Similarly Marc Leonard, who was superb in midweek against Fulham, came on after an hour and started to dictate proceedings. Remarkably he made 38 passes and completed every single one of them. Taylor Gardner-Hickman made 39 in twice as long with a completion ratio of 80 per cent.
That’s not to say Leonard should start ahead of TGH in every game, more than the more physically powerful TGH is better suited to certain situations and the neat orchestrator Leonard others.
Oh, then there’s Japan international Tomoki Iwata to throw into the equation.
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By Yuval Noah Harari
Mr. Harari is a historian and the author of the forthcoming book “Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI,” from which this essay is adapted.
Democracy is a conversation. Its function and survival depend on the available information technology. For most of history, no technology existed for holding large-scale conversations among millions of people. In the premodern world, democracies existed only in small city-states like Rome and Athens, or in even smaller tribes. Once a polity grew large, the democratic conversation collapsed, and authoritarianism remained the only alternative.
Large-scale democracies became feasible only after the rise of modern information technologies like the newspaper, the telegraph and the radio. The fact that modern democracy has been built on top of modern information technologies means that any major change in the underlying technology is likely to result in a political upheaval.
This partly explains the current worldwide crisis of democracy. In the United States, Democrats and Republicans can hardly agree on even the most basic facts, such as who won the 2020 presidential election. A similar breakdown is happening in numerous other democracies around the world, from Brazil to Israel and from France to the Philippines.
In the early days of the internet and social media, tech enthusiasts promised they would spread truth, topple tyrants and ensure the universal triumph of liberty. So far, they seem to have had the opposite effect. We now have the most sophisticated information technology in history, but we are losing the ability to talk with each other, and even more so the ability to listen.
As technology has made it easier than ever to spread information, attention became a scarce resource, and the ensuing battle for attention resulted in a deluge of toxic information. But the battle lines are now shifting from attention to intimacy. The new generative artificial intelligence is capable of not only producing texts, images and videos, but also conversing with us directly, pretending to be human.
Over the past two decades, algorithms fought algorithms to grab attention by manipulating conversations and content. In particular, algorithms tasked with maximizing user engagement discovered by experimenting on millions of human guinea pigs that if you press the greed, hate or fear button in the brain you grab the attention of that human, and keep that person glued to the screen. The algorithms began to deliberately promote such content. But the algorithms had only limited capacity to produce this content by themselves or to directly hold an intimate conversation. This is now changing, with the introduction of generative A.I.s like OpenAI’s GPT-4.
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