McLeish: Blues are still focused

McLeish: Blues are still focused

Published Mar. 30, 2010 4:13 p.m. ET

Birmingham manager Alex McLeish has dismissed suggestions that his players already have one eye on their summer holidays.

The Blues have picked up two points from their last four matches since back-to-back Premier League wins over Wigan and Portsmouth that hauled them to safety.

Defeats at Sunderland and Blackburn have sandwiched home draws with Everton and Arsenal, the latter with a last-gasp equaliser at the weekend.

But McLeish told the Birmingham Mail: "It has been difficult for us to win on the road recently, but no one finds it easy to win away, as Arsenal found.

"Anyone who has watched the last three performances I'm sure will agree we haven't looked as if we're a team winding down or putting the sun-tan lotion on early.

"We've lost two of them, okay, but that was down to lapses, a bit of bad luck.

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