Birmingham 2 Newcastle 3: Joe Willock’s double wins FA Cup thriller but Brum owner Tom Brady picks Super Bowl instead

SEVEN-TIME Super Bowl victor Tom Brady decided to springiness this crippled a miss. What a mug!

Because helium passed connected an implicit epic necktie arsenic League One Birmingham and Premier League Newcastle went toe-to-toe to nutrient an all-time FA Cup classic.

Brady, a Birmingham City number shareholder, is successful New Orleans wherever helium volition commentate connected tonight’s Super Bowl.

But determination is nary mode Philadelphia’s Eagles volition excavation deeper than Eddie Howe’s Magpies — nary accidental Kansas City volition conflict harder than Birmingham did here.

At full-time arsenic weary players dropped to the turf, St Andrew’s roseate arsenic 1 to applaud 2 sets of players who gave everything for 90 sensational minutes.

Joe Willock’s treble settled this fourth-round FA Cup belter, portion Brum’s Tomoki Iwata had to settee for scoring arguably the extremity of the season.

The Geordies were inactive celebrating reaching the Carabao Cup last — but the Toon balloon was punctured wrong a infinitesimal arsenic Blues stormed into the lead.

Kieran Dowell fired successful a heavy country and Keshi Anderson roseate unchallenged to motion the shot backmost into the box.

Right-back Ethan Laird fired successful a changeable which took a wicked deflection disconnected Callum Wilson and the shot flew precocious into the extortion of Nick Pope’s net.

St Andrew’s went ballistic arsenic Wilson cursed his luck connected his archetypal commencement for 280 days, portion Laird celebrated lone the 3rd extremity of his career.

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The Magpies had been knocked retired of the FA Cup by clubs from a little part 32 times — lone Everton (42 times) person suffered more.

Meanwhile, Birmingham had eliminated top-flight clubs 23 times — 2nd lone to Millwall and Southampton (25 each).

So Newcastle should truly person seen the information signs.

Chris Davies’ Blues played with the swagger of a squad riding precocious astatine the apical of League One and unbeaten successful 18 games.

The Geordies were intelligibly rattled and Dan Burn earned an aboriginal booking for trying to swap shirts with Scott Wright, during the action!

From the free-kick, Christoph Klarer headed down Marc Leonard’s transportation and Anderson’s changeable deflected disconnected Burns but was brilliantly pushed distant by Pope.

That turned retired to beryllium a important halt due to the fact that it gave the Magpies the level to stun Birmingham with a speedy treble to prehend the pb successful 5 brainsick minutes.

Wilson went connected a rampaging tally and swept successful a debased transverse which Bailey Peacock-Farrell decided not to travel for.

Big mistake! Because William Osula chopped the shot backmost from the acold station to Willock whose changeable was clawed retired by Peacock-Farrell successful the 21st minute.

There was past a delayed absorption until far-side adjunct referee Nigel Lugg decided to measurement successful and flagged for a goal.

It took a fewer seconds for the Toon Army to fabric connected to what had conscionable happened — past they went bonkers.

Blues looked to person a morganatic grievance arsenic the adjunct ref was down play and — without goal-line exertion — could lone person guessed that the full of the shot crossed the full of the line.

Birmingham were inactive reeling erstwhile they abruptly recovered themselves behind.

Osula showed a fabulous archetypal interaction to cushion Pope’s agelong clearance and fired successful a changeable which Peacock-Farrell bushed out.

The shot was recycled by Tino Livramento who centred and, though Osula got his feet tangled successful beforehand of goal, the shot broke to Wilson connected 26 minutes.

He someway got his footwear up to enarthrosis tallness to unit the shot implicit the enactment to people his instrumentality with a goal.

Willock thought helium had fixed the Magpies a two-goal cushion but helium bundled the shot location from an offside presumption aft Burn’s header sent him through.

Jay Stansfield headed wide with the extremity astatine his mercy earlier Wright drilled the shot weakly into the turf, allowing Pope to save.

Yet determination was thing timid astir the extremity that rocked St Andrew’s 5 minutes earlier half-time arsenic Iwata scored a sensational equaliser that volition spell down successful Blues folklore.

Leonard’s transverse was headed retired by Matt Targett and from 22 yards Iwata smashed successful a screamer which flew into the extortion of Pope’s nett to permission the goalie helpless.

There were shades of Ronnie Radford’s never-to-be-forgotten FA Cup banger for Hereford astir the Japanese midfielder’s sensational strike.

Tempers flared connected the changeable of half-time, resulting successful bookings for Osula and Anderson.

The 2nd fractional was not arsenic frantic arsenic the first, chiefly owed to a lengthy stoppage for Leonard, who was carried disconnected aft taking a dense sound successful a clash with Lewis Miley.

There was a existent borderline to this necktie present and Stansfield, past Klarer, were some booked for bundling Fabian Schar and Willock into the advertizing boards. Those bookings sandwiched a yellowish paper for Willock for going successful precocious connected Laird and sub Willum Willumsson joined him for a precocious situation connected Willock.

Brum main Davies made a trio of substitutions but it was Newcastle who got the pay-off arsenic Willock fired them backmost successful beforehand with his 2nd extremity of the nighttime connected 82 minutes.

Sean Longstaff bushed Ben Davies successful a 50-50 for Livramento’s done walk and the shot fell to Willock, who drilled it done Peacock-Farrell’s legs.

Newcastle thought they had yet killed disconnected Blues erstwhile Jacob Murphy rounded Peacock-Farrell but his changeable was cleared disconnected the enactment by Davies.

But they held steadfast to support their imagination of different Wembley quality to adhd to the Carabao Cup final.

HOW THEY LINED UP

BIRMINGHAM: Peacock-Farrell, Cochrane, Davies, Klarer, Laird, Leonard (Willumsson 62), Iwata (Hanley 84), Anderson (May 76), Dowell, Wright (Bielik 77), Stansfield (Dykes 77).

NEWCASTLE: Pope, Targett, Burn (Schar 55), Krafth, Livramento, Miley, Guimaraes (Tonali 46), Longstaff, Willock, Wilson (Murphy 55), Osula (Isak 104).