Our game against Burnley has been postponed due to The FA Cup, which is good in some respects because the squad has been hit by a virus again. We're not sure if it's the one that got Marc Bircham and myself or the virus that laid the gaffer low a few weeks ago.

Either way, a few of the lads are pretty ill, so the rest has come at a good time for them. But on the other hand we want to get enough points on the board to ensure safety as soon as possible.

The finishing post is so near and so far at the moment, but it feels like the jockey and the horse want to go separate ways. It is a bit frustrating, especially when people start saying we are already safe and should be looking at the top six. We can't get complacent.

I started on the bench last week against Preston North End. I don't make a good bench player - and neither do Marc Bircham or Martin Rowlands, who were there with me.

We had been out of the side for three games, so the manager stuck with the same side that had won three on the spin. And we should have made it four. We were 1-0 up when I was getting ready to come on, but in the time it took me to get my padds on it was 2-1 to them.

I did get a different view of Ian Holloway for 75 minutes of the game. He is still hyper - no matter how calm he says he's become. A few of the lads had told me how he hadn't changed, and now I believe them.

Birmingham Ladies have the small prospect of Arsenal in The FA Cup Quarter Final on Sunday. By the time you read this, hopefully my England players will have come through their game against Italy. It's my first experience as a manager to worry about my players being injured on international duty.

But it's also a mark of how far the club has come. We have had an average of nine players in England training camps this season - and except Rachel Yankey, none of them were regulars in the squad before they joined Birmingham City.

I know they will be ready for Arsenal on Sunday, because we have done a lot of preparation. The FA Cup draw hasn't been kind to us, but if we want to win the competition - which we do - we have to be able to beat the likes of Arsenal.

They have achieved so much as a club and they can look back with satisfaction. Their achievements are different to Fulham's because they were competing on the same level. Fulham were the only pros in an amateur league for those few years, so it was a given they would dominate. But Arsenal were always the team to beat before Fulham turned pro.

But I would love to beat them on Sunday. It will be a massive achivement for us and it will show people we have big ambitions.

Until then, speak to you next week.

Queens Park Rangers play Wolves at Loftus Road on Tuesday at 7.45 pm and Birmingham Ladies play Arsenal in the FA Cup Quarter Final on Sunday at 2pm.