Everyone will know what we've done - Birmingham's 'legacy'

Birmingham City have won 33 - and lost just three - of their 45 games in League One this season

Birmingham City manager Chris Davies says the "legacy" his record-breaking League One champions have created is "special" and a "remarkable" feat.

Blues broke the Football League record for most points in a season with a game to spare with Wednesday's 2-0 win at Blackpool.

That victory increased their haul to 108 points, surpassing the mark of 106 set by Reading when they won the Championship title 19 years ago.

"Think how many football teams there have been, how many seasons there have been," Davies told BBC WM.

"And we are the team to have got the most points in the history of English football. To achieve 108 points is truly special and a remarkable achievement.

"I had spoken to the players about the legacy we could leave this season and the mark we could make in the footballing world.

"I have been drumming it into them - to chase a record like this isn't a club record, not something that people will brush over. Everyone will know what we have done."

The Birmingham hotseat is Davies' first managerial job after leaving his role as part of Ange Postecoglou's coaching staff at Tottenham Hotspur for St Andrew's last summer.

And it is Blues' relentlessness - not easing off when promotion, the title or the third-tier points record had all been ticked off - that pleases the 40-year-old rookie head coach the most.

"Not only have we broken the record but we have achieved it by having to play, I believe, more games than any team in England or Scotland," Davies added.

Blues reached the FA Cup fourth round this season, losing a 3-2 thriller to Premier League side Newcastle, as well as reaching the Vertu Trophy final at Wembley, where they were beaten by League One rivals Peterborough.

"That's 60 games we'll have played [after Saturday's final-day trip to Cambridge] so it's not like we've just turned up fresh for every game - we've had cup runs and everything," Davies added.

"To finish this season with that level of points is something I'll savour."

'Huge budget - but they've spent well'

Steve Bruce spent six years as Birmingham boss between 2001-07

Blues' detractors will point to the £25m they spent after relegation from the Championship - including smashing the third-tier record fee by paying more than £10m for top scorer Jay Stansfield.

That spree, bankrolled by American owners Knighthead and a board on which NFL legend Tom Brady is a minority investor, helped clinch promotion with six games to spare and ensure their stay in the division was a brief one.

But former Birmingham manager Steve Bruce, whose Blackpool side became the 22nd different League One team to lose to Blues this season - Reading and Northampton are the only clubs to avoid that fate - believes their success is not just down to money.

"They've got a huge budget but they've spent it very well - they've been the best team in the league by a country mile," Bruce told BBC Radio Lancashire.

"You could see why they had won the league by 20-odd points. They are well organised, well coached, well disciplined.

"I predicted five or six months ago they would win by 20 points. They remind me of the really good Wolves side that was in the Championship a few years ago."

'This is the first stepping stone'

Ryan Allsop began his career as a trainee with Birmingham's neighbours West Bromwich Albion

While their financial outlay has been eye-catching, goalkeeper Ryan Allsop - a Birmingham-born lifelong 'Bluenose' - says the club's achievements are down to their work ethic as much as anything.

The 32-year-old, whose nomadic career has taken in 14 different destinations, joined his hometown team last summer, seemingly as back-up to Bailey Peacock-Farrell.

But he grabbed the starting spot in October and has not looked back since, keeping 21 clean sheets in 37 league appearances.

"We've always gone out and left everything on the pitch. Credit to everyone involved - it's a massive thing, a big legacy and something we can remember forever," Allsop told BBC WM.

"There's still one more game to go and we're going to look forward to that, but it's been a phenomenal effort from the lads and staff and everyone involved.

"But to have achieved what we've achieved this year, it's something that will stay with me forever - to be able to help this club get back to where we belong and push on again.

"We obviously want more and more. This is the first stepping stone and to be part of it is incredibly special to me."