{"id":296917,"date":"2023-12-02T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=296917"},"modified":"2023-12-02T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T14:25:08","slug":"tom-brady-returns-to-watch-birmingham-play-amid-fan-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/tom-brady-returns-to-watch-birmingham-play-amid-fan-unrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady returns to watch Birmingham play amid fan unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Tom Brady returns to England to watch his soccer team Birmingham play &#8211; amid fan unrest with some blaming HIM for losing form after abruptly appointing Wayne Rooney as coach<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tom Brady announced his stake in soccer team Birmingham on his 46th birthday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The team started the season well but struggled since Wayne Rooney joined\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>DailyMail.com provides all the latest international sports news<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tom Brady is back in England to watch his soccer team Birmingham\u00a0in action on Saturday &#8211; but it&#8217;ll be a different sense of occasion to his last visit.<\/p>\n<p>The team shared video of Brady greeting coach Wayne Rooney before the game on Saturday and the legendary NFL quarterback also watched Friday&#8217;s practice.<\/p>\n<p>Brady shared a picture from the stadium on Saturday morning with the caption on Instagram reading: &#8216;Beautiful day at St. Andrew&#8217;s&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He announced he had taken a minor stake in the second-tier soccer team on his 46th birthday on August 3 and the team made a promising start to the season under former coach John Eustace.<\/p>\n<p>Brady appeared at Birmingham&#8217;s first home game of the new season in August &#8211; a 1-0 win against Leeds United and the seven-time Super Bowl winner was welcomed by the team&#8217;s passionate fanbase.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/02\/14\/78501535-12817611-image-a-21_1701526131821.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tom Brady pictured arriving for Birmingham&#8217;s game against Leeds back on August 12<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/02\/14\/78501793-12817611-image-a-19_1701525952769.jpg\" height=\"557\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Brady pictured greeting coach Wayne Rooney, who has made a slow start as\u00a0 coach<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/02\/14\/78501791-12817611-image-a-20_1701525982849.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Brady watched Friday&#8217;s practice session before a game Birmingham should win on Saturday\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Birmingham abruptly fired coach Eustace in October and brought in Wayne Rooney after he left Major League Soccer team DC\u00a0United.<\/p>\n<p>Rooney was appointed on October 11 and the team has only won once in the following seven games, sparking fan unrest with some blaming Brady for changing coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Fans fumed at Rooney just being linked with the role to begin with and he was targeted with verbal abuse after losing to Hull City on October 25.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham plays Rotherham at St Andrew&#8217;s on Saturday. Rotherham are second-last in the 24-team league with Birmingham sliding to 16th since Rooney took over, but are favorite to win today&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>When Brady announced his stake in the team in August, he admitted he needed to educate himself about the &#8216;other&#8217; football.<\/p>\n<p>Well, let\u2019s just say, I\u2019ve got a lot to learn.\u00a0But I do know a few things about winning, and I think they might translate pretty well,&#8217; Brady said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I know success starts with the work put in when the world isn\u2019t watching. I know that a team is nothing without the city that shows up and stands behind it. And most importantly, I know I like being the underdog.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Brady retired from the NFL in February after his Tampa Bay Buccaneers team were knocked out of the playoffs by Dallas Cowboys.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12817611\/Tom-Brady-returns-England-Birmingham-Wayne-Rooney-coach.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Tom Brady returns to England to watch his soccer team Birmingham play &#8211; amid fan unrest with some blaming HIM for losing form after abruptly <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/tom-brady-returns-to-watch-birmingham-play-amid-fan-unrest\/\" title=\"Tom Brady returns to watch Birmingham play amid fan unrest\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tom Brady returns to watch Birmingham play amid fan unrest - Sportstoft<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/tom-brady-returns-to-watch-birmingham-play-amid-fan-unrest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tom Brady returns to watch Birmingham play amid fan unrest - Sportstoft\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tom Brady returns to England to watch his soccer team Birmingham play &#8211; 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