Still want more? Jonathan Wilson was at St Andrew’s for us. I’ll leave you with his match report. Goodnight! Full time: Birmingham 2-3 Newcastle Newcastle are through to the fifth round after an intense, extraordinarily eventful FA Cup tie. The superb Joe Willock decided it in the 82nd minute with his second goal of the game, but the match will probably be remembered for Tomoki Iwata’s spectacular equaliser on the stroke of half-time. 90+14 min: Newcastle substitution In the 104th minute of normal time, William Osula is replaced by Alexander Isak. 90+12 min Osula goes down after a clash of heads with Klarer. He’ll need treatment; Klarer seems okay. 90+12 min Schar tries to score from the halfway line but doesn’t get enough on it. Who does he think he is, Jamie Donley? 90+11 min A free-kick on the halfway line allows Birmingham to send everyone forward. Peacock-Farrell takes, Hanley heads on and Pope comes out to collect. 90+9 min Birmingham are still scrapping for everything but they haven’t been as dangerous going forward in the second half as the first. Even so, it’s been a brilliant game. 90+7 min At the other end, Osula spanks over the bar from 20 yards. He’s been quieter since moving to centre forward. 90+6 min May cuts inside from the left but mistimes a tame shot that is easily saved by Pope. In the circumstances, Newcastle have managed this second half really well. 90+3 min Few cup ties are quite as eventful as this. We’ve had five goals – one after 41 seconds, another an absolute screamer – plus injuries, controversy, great saves, aggro, William Osula clearing his own shot off the line. I’ve probably forgotten something as well. 90+1 min There will be 12 minutes of added time. 90 min: Off the line by Davies! Murphy is put through on goal, miscontrols the ball but has time to recover and go round Peacock-Farrell. The angle is tight and his shot is cleared off the line by the covering Davies. Terrific defending. 88 min Livramento’s sharp low cross is met on the run by Tonali, whose beautifully struck shot is superbly blocked by Hanley. 85 min: Big save by Pope! Dowell’s corner from the right hits somebody at the far post and ricochets towards goal. Pope, instinctively realising he doesn’t have time to get down and save it with his hands, reacts superbly to boot it off the line with his right foot. 84 min: Birmingham substitution Grant Hanley replces Tomoki Iwata, whose goal will live long in the memory. Willock has had an outstanding game and he read the play beautifully there. The move started with Willock, who played a square pass just outside the area to Livramento and keep running. Livramento pushed it into the area towards Longstaff, who managed to drag it back towards the near post. Willock was first on the scene to rattle a first-time shot past Peacock-Farrell. GOAL! Birmingham 2-3 Newcastle (Willock 82) Joe Willock’s second goal has put Newcastle ahead! 81 min Miley goes past two players on the edge of the area but Cochrane does well to force him wide and the eventual cross is straight at Peacock-Farrell. 80 min There will probably be at least 10 minutes of added time, so we’re not as close to the final whistle as it seems. 78 min Targett’s cross is missed at the far post by a defender, which leads to a game of pinball in the Birmingham area. Livramento had half a chance but mishit his shot. 77 min: Triple substitution for Birmingham Lyndon Dykes, Krystian Bielik and Alfie May replace Keshi Anderson, Jay Stansfield and Scott Wright. 75 min Willumsson is booked. I think Davies might have got away with his reducer on Osula. 74 min Willock gets away from Willumsson, who tries to trip him and ends up studding him in the ankle. Willock goes down and will need treatment. 73 min Osula is cleaned out from behind by Davies. The referee plays a good advantage but will surely go back to book Davies. 72 min Murphy’s shot on the turn from 15 yards is comfortably saved by Peacock-Farrell. 71 min Klarer is booked for a very cynical foul on Willock. The second half has been increasingly fractious. 70 min Longstaff dawdles in the area and is robbed by Anderson, who then goes over. Birmingham go up for a penalty but I don’t think there was much contact. 68 min Now Willock is booked for a high challenge on Laird; it looked clumsy rather than malicious. But it means yet another stoppage. The ball has barely been in play in the last 15 minutes. 66 min Stansfield is booked for dragging Schar over the touchline and into the advertising boards. Schar was trying to usher the ball out of play and was sent flying. He stays down for 30 seconds or so, then gets to his feet and immediately starts pointing angrily at Stansfield. This game, as Guy Mowbray says on the BBC, has had everything. 65 min Leonard was down for six or seven minutes so theer will be plenty of added time. 63 min: Birmingham substitution Leonard is stretchered off to be replaced by the Iceland international Willum Þór Willumson. 61 min Leonard is being slowly moved onto a stretcher. A few of his teammates are there with him; the others are running around in an attempt to keep warm. 60 min A stretcher has been brought on for Leonard, who is being given oxygen as well. I think it’s a (potentially deep) wound rather than a break, but either way it’s not good. 57 min Leonard slides in on Miley and is caught painfully on the knee by Miley’s studs. There’s a break in play while he receives treatment. 55 min: Double substitution from Newcastle Dan Burn has pulled something and is limping off to be replaced by Fabian Schar. Jacob Murphy comes on for Callum Wilson, which means Osula will move to centre forward. 54 min Birmingham are having a really good spell. After some nice passing on the left, Leonard’s deep cross is fractionally too strong for Laird. 52 min A reminder that, if necessary, the match will go to extra-time and penalties. 50 min Anderson goes flying after a collision with Osula, another demonstration of his strength. Dowell clips a terrific free-kick into the corridor of uncertainty; nobody in a blue shirt is able to get there. 48 min Newcastle have started the second half on the front foot. Osula runs at Cochrane and hits a cross that takes a big deflection before spinning out of play on the far side. He looks a very interesting player, Osula – tall, powerful but also highly skilful. And he’s only 21. 46 min Peep peep! Half-time substitution Eddie Howe has brought on Sandro Tonali for Bruno Guimaraes. “If Ethan Laird hadn’t ducked, his head would have been taken clean off by Iwata’s shot,” says Andy Flintoff. “Although, being a bit cheeky, he’s directly in line between Iwata and Pope and standing offside, so would VAR have had the nerve to disallow it?” “Seeing as how Willock and Wilson have scored for the opposition,” begins Peter Oh, “I reckon the Birmingham manager has no choice but to throw Willum Willumsson into the fray. “ Iwata’s goal is getting better every time you see it. Nick Pope may have got a slight touch as he leapt to his left but he had no chance of saving it. The assistant referee wasn’t perfectly in line when he awarded Joe Willock’s goal. Even now, after 10 or more replays, I’m not sure either way. Half-time reading Half time: Birmingham 2-2 Newcastle A pulsating first half at St Andrew’s. Ethan Laird scored after 41 seconds to spark an end-to-end thriller. The excellent Joe Willock equalised, though there was some doubt as to whether the ball crossed the line, and Callum Wilson reacted smartly to put Newcastle ahead. Then, after missed chances at both ends, Tomoki Iwata scored an absolute screamer to make it 2-2. More, please! 45+4 min In fact it was sparked by a pretty bad foul on Osula on Stansfield, who then started laughing as Osula went after him. 45+3 min An incident involving Osula leads to a shoving match on the touchline. We didn’t see exactly what happened but Osula and Anderson have been booked. 45 min Three minutes of added time. Any chance of three hours? 44 min Iwata’s goal has echoes of Ronnie Radford against Newcastle in 1972. Radford was much further out, but the way the ball sat up and the purity of the strike were pretty similar. 42 min I hope they have the technology to measure the speed at which Iwata’s shot was travelling. It was a belter. A cross from the left was headed away by the backpedalling Targett beyond the far post. Iwata ran towards the bouncing ball, just outside the area, and lasered it first time into the roof of the net. What a goal! GOAL! Birmingham 2-2 Newcastle (Iwata 40) Tomoki Iwata equalises with a monstrous goal! 39 min: Chance for Birmingham! Wright, 10 yards out, sidefoots tamely into Pope’s hands after a cutback from Iwata. This is a cracking match. 36 min Willock surges infield and finds Osula on the right side of the box. He chops back onto his left foot and hits a shot that is really well blocked by the sliding Klarer. Newcastle’s wide players, Willock and Osula, have been a constant threat. 35 min I’ve just realised that, on Newcastle’s, second goal, Osula blocked his own shot on the line. He dragged the ball against his standing foot, it looped up and Wilson did the rest. Whether he was offside before that, we don’t yet know. 33 min: Great chance for Stansfield! Anderson runs at Livramento and curls a glorious cross that is headed fractionally wide from six yards by Stansfield. In fact replays show it probably came off his shoulder. He’s normally so clinical; there’s a chance he was unsighted by Krafth jumping in front of him. 32 min: Willock has a goal disallowed He wags his finger but he was well offside when he ran through to knock the ball over Peacock-Farrell. 30 min Newcastle have the game under control for the time being, but you’d imagine there will be a few more momentum shifts before the final whistle. There’s a lot to unpick with that goal. The move started with a stunning turn on the halfway line by Osula, who eventually had a long-range shot pushed away. Newcastle regained possession and Livramento slid a brilliant low cross that led to the aforementioned scramble and ultimately Wilson’s goal. The ball would have gone in the net earlier but Osula inadvertently blocked it on the line. He looked offside when he did so, though a) I’m not sure whether it was touched towards goal by a Birmingham or Newcastle player and b) there’s no VAR. Two goals in five minutes for Newcastle. After an almighty scramble in the box, Wilson stretches high, shorts-rippingly high, to stud the ball into the net from a couple of yards. GOAL! Birmingham 1-2 Newcastle (Wilson 26) Bang bang! 25 min Stansfield, Birmingham’s star man, turns smartly 20 yards from goal and hits a shot that is too close to Pope. Callum Wilson barrelled down the left and clipped a superb ball beyond the far post. Osula screwed it back into the six-yard box and Willock poked towards goal with his left foot. The ball was punched away by Peacock-Farrell, whose momentum and taken him behind the goalline, and play continued for a couple of seconds until everyone realised the assistant had signalled it was a goal. There’s no goalline technology, never mind VAR. With the naked eye it looks incredibly close; my instinct is that it was over the line but I wouldn’t put the farm on it. GOAL! Birmingham 1-1 Newcastle (Willock 22) Joe Willock equalises for Newcastle, but there is doubt as to whether the ball crossed the line! 18 min Birmingham are pouncing on Newcastle at every possibility, a bit like Newcastle did to Arsenal on Tuesday. This is a really good game. 15 min: Fine save by Pope! The resulting free-kick is driven beyond the far post and headed back towards Anderson on the edge of the area. He contorts his body to strike a sweet left-footed volley that takes a slight deflection off Burn and is pushed away by the flying Pope. That’s an outstanding stop. 14 min Burn is booked for pulling back Wright. Birmingham are frustrated that the ref didn’t play the advantage as they had a two-on-two break. 12 min Livramento gets to the byline and cuts the ball back. It’s pushed square along the six-yard line to Wilson, whose early shot is crucially blocked by Klarer. 10 min Newcastle have processed the shock of going behind so early and are starting to dominate the ball. 7 min Osula is fouled on the right wing by Cochrane. Targett’s free-kick is punched away decisively by Peacock-Farrell. 6 min Pope, who isn’t the best with his feet, sprays a pass straight out of play. 4 min Iwata’s pass is intercepted by Willock, who surges 50 yards down the left and curls a dangerous cross – or rather, what would have been a dangerous cross if there was a Newcastle player in the area. St Andrew’s is going ballistic. It came from a superbly worked corner, won and then taken by Dowell. He drove it deliberately beyond the far post to Anderson, who pulled away and was totally unmarked. Anderson guided a header down towards Laird, six yards out, and he swept a shot that was deflected into the roof of the net by Wilson. Laird’s shot was on target so it’s his goal. GOAL! Birmingham 1-0 Newcastle (Laird 1) Ethan Laird has scored after 40 seconds! 1 min Peep peep! Birmingham, in blue, kick off from left to right as we watch. There’s a helluvan atmosphere at St Andrew’s. With five minutes to kick-off, let’s have a peedie reminder of the teams. Birmingham (4-2-3-1) Peacock-Farrell; Laird, Klarer, Davies, Cochrane; Iwata, Leonard; Wright, Dowell, Anderson; Stansfield. Substitutes: Allsop, Bielik, Hanley, Sampsted, Harris, Willumsson, Dykes, May, Jutkiewicz. Newcastle (4-3-3) Pope; Livramento, Krafth, Burn, Targett; Miley, Guimaraes, Longstaff; Osula, Wilson, Willock. Substitutes: Dubravka, Ruddy, Trippier, Schar, Tonali, Isak, Hall, Murphy, Neave. Referee Matthew Donohue. “G’day Rob,” says Chris Paraskevas. “Hope you’re well! “As I’m sat here waiting for my 4:30am coffee to boil, I wonder if the term ‘Birmingham’ brings up the following random access memories for others: Peter Enckelman’s immortal St Andrew’s clanger. The hit TV show Brum featuring an inquisitive, sentient and borderline fascist self-driving vintage car that solves crimes/runs into people. That time Newcastle fielded a ‘Holy Trinity’ of Viduka, Martins and Michael Owen up front at St Andrew’s, breaking records for lack of work ethic as a front three. “I seriously would pay to see that car bring out the match ball, with its googly eyes, Midlands cheek and self-righteousness...” For me, I’m sorry to say, the word Birmingham brings to mind Barry Fry’s appendage. Team news: Nine changes for Newcastle Birmingham manager Chris Davies makes three changes from the last League One match, a 2-1 win over Rotherham a week ago. Bailey Peacock-Farrell, Marc Leonard and Scott Wright come in for Ryan Allsop, Taylor Gardner-Hickman and Lyndon Dykes. Eddie Howe has made nine changes to the side that beat Arsenal in the Carabao Cup semi-final. Dan Burn and Bruno Guimaraes are the men who keep their place, but there are plenty of big hitters on the bench including Alexander Isak. Birmingham (4-2-3-1) Peacock-Farrell; Laird, Klarer, Davies, Cochrane; Iwata, Leonard; Wright, Dowell, Anderson; Stansfield. Substitutes: Allsop, Bielik, Hanley, Sampsted, Harris, Willumsson, Dykes, May, Jutkiewicz. Newcastle (4-3-3) Pope; Livramento, Krafth, Burn, Targett; Miley, Guimaraes, Longstaff; Osula, Wilson, Willock. Substitutes: Dubravka, Ruddy, Trippier, Schar, Tonali, Isak, Hall, Murphy, Neave. Referee Matthew Donohue. Today’s FA Cup results Coventry 1-4 Ipswich Everton 0-2 Bournemouth Leeds 0-2 Millwall Leyton Orient 1-2 Man City Southampton 0-1 Burnley Wigan 1-2 Fulham And extra-time is being played in these two games Preston 0-0 Wycombe Stoke 3-3 Cardiff Preamble Hello and welcome to live coverage of Birmingham City v Newcastle United at St Andrew’s. This is one of the ties of the FA Cup fourth round, a meeting between the League One leaders and the League Cup finalists. Birmingham, relegated from the Championship last season, have regrouped superbly under their young coach Chris Davies and will fancy their chances of a shock. They are very strong defensively and have conceded only four goals in their last 13 games; Alexander Isak will test just how strong they are*. The FA Cup is probably third on Newcastle’s list of priorities, behind the Carabao Cup final and qualifying for the Champions League. But when you’ve waited as long as they have for a trophy, everything is worth your best shot. Kick off 5.45pm.