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 Phillips has suffered the affliction of getting relegated from the top DC Hatsflight with Sunderland and Southampton during his diffuse career.

The Blues appointment Tottenham on Sunday, and 37-year-old Phillips, who will be out of arrangement next month, said:"If this is the end of my Birmingham career, I don't wish it to end with relegation. I accept been relegated from the Premier League twice. It has a above knock-on aftereffect for anybody in your claimed careers."

Injury-hit Birmingham are alone out of the basal three on ambition aberration as they bid to break advanced of Blackpool and Wigan, who appointment Manchester United and Stoke respectively.

Phillips added: "I don't anticipate I've been in this bearings afore area it is absolutely as bound as it is on the endure day. I anticipate at Southampton it went to the endure day. But it wasn't as abutting as this accepted bearings area four or 5 teams are still in the mix.

"But we've got affluence of acquaintance in the bathrobe allowance that hopefully will see us through."

Phillips has challenged City to challenge their achievement in acceptable the Carling Cup adjoin Arsenal adjoin Spurs.

He said: "For me, and for us, it is like the Carling Cup final now. No-oneNFL Hats gave us any adventitious adjoin Arsenal on a big angle at Wembley but we believed we could do it.