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Birmingham City have tonight announced that they have parted company with Harry Redknapp as manager.

The news comes after Blues lost 3-1 at home to Preston in a heavy defeat in front of the St Andrew's faithful.

We will obviously have more news on this as we get it.

It leaves Blues looking for another manager with a mainly new team assembled just two weeks ago when the transfer window closed.

Redknapp's Blues were on the back of six defeats in the row, and the manager had signed 14 new players in total.

Lee Carsley is in temporary charge of the team as the hunt for a successor begins.

Club statement

The Club has tonight parted company with manager Harry Redknapp. Unfortunately due to the poor start to the campaign which sees the Club second from bottom of the Championship, we are left with no choice but to terminate the contract of the manager with immediate effect. We thank him for all his efforts and wish him good luck for the future. Lee Carsley, Blues Head Professional Development Coach, will step in as Caretaker Manager. There will be no further comment at this time.

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