SQUEAKY BRUM TIME

Blues call on Rowett to rescue their season

- NEIL MOXLEY

GARY ROWETT has agreed a shock return to Birmingham to save them from League One.

The club's former boss responded to an SOS call and will oversee the final eight games as the Second City club battle to avoid the drop.

Rowett has been out of work since leaving Millwall five months ago but will take on the job of preserving Birmingham's Championship status after a deal was hurriedly struck.

They have won just one of their last six matches under assistant boss Mark Venus and lie outside the relegation zone on goal difference.