{"id":541525,"date":"2020-01-25T15:21:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T20:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=541525"},"modified":"2021-05-06T21:36:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T01:36:17","slug":"diabolical-performance-birmingham-city-fans-react-to-fa-cup-draw-with-coventry-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/25\/diabolical-performance-birmingham-city-fans-react-to-fa-cup-draw-with-coventry-city\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Diabolical Performance&#8217; &#8211; Birmingham City Fans React to FA Cup Draw With Coventry City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham City fans took to Twitter to react to their 0-0 draw with Coventry City in the Emirates FA Cup Fourth Round.<\/p>\n<h2>Birmingham City Fans React to FA Cup Draw With Coventry City<\/h2>\n<h3>&#8216;Diabolical Performance&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>In what was a unique experience at St Andrew&#8217;s, Coventry City hosted their landlords, Birmingham City.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky Blues have been ground-sharing with their West Midlands rivals since the start of the season following problems with their previous Ricoh Arena home.<\/p>\n<p>Coventry City overcame Bristol Rovers in a Third Round replay in order to &#8216;host&#8217; the peculiar affair.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham City boss Pep Clotet had labelled it a strange fixture in the build-up to kick-off as Blues were made to occupy the away changing room and away designated seating.<\/p>\n<p>However, Blues fans were left mostly frustrated as they failed to overcome their lower-league rivals; instead, taking the fixture to a replay at, you guessed it, St Andrew&#8217;s in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s what Birmingham City fans said on Twitter after full-time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Let\u2019s be honest, blues fans deserve better than this, teams as bad as the likes of Reading with shite support, no history no soul have better stability than us, bad result today looked strong on paper n all, o well <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KRO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#KRO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas Davison ??????? (@bhamdavo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhamdavo\/status\/1221149844569575431?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today has really pissed me off. We were awful. I&#8217;m not blaming the players for it either. The blame lays completely with the management. No shape, no balance, no pace, no drive, no game plan. Just turn up and hope we nick a goal. It simply isn&#8217;t good enough <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bcfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#bcfc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 scullybcfc (@scullybcfc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scullybcfc\/status\/1221148060077690880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Brilliant experience diabolical performance simple as that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bcfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#bcfc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George (@GeoSewell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeoSewell\/status\/1221146721159471104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sigh. Yet another inept performance from both the players and Pep. It was one of the worst games of football I have watched Blues play. Dare I say it, lazy and lacklustre. Fans deserve so much better <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EmiratesFACup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#EmiratesFACup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bcfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#bcfc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LJ (@LJ_Blues) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LJ_Blues\/status\/1221143579738984448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What the F was that Pep. Absolutely no clue what the game plan was was? What\u2019s our style of play? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bcfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#bcfc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tiktok?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#tiktok<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 One City One Team (@Dealhunterspain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dealhunterspain\/status\/1221138581852491776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The draw for the Fifth Round of the Emirates FA Cup takes place on Monday, 27 January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"8G2ZvEsEQyVJWSMZQRrkKQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1196139227\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'8G2ZvEsEQyVJWSMZQRrkKQ',sig:'N0VtUuRoBlvxIR-sFUEHOFJtGCYspqlhD5iT3FW3qx4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1196139227',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham City fans took to Twitter to react to their 0-0 draw with Coventry City in the Emirates FA Cup Fourth Round. Birmingham City Fans React to FA Cup Draw With Coventry City &#8216;Diabolical Performance&#8217; In what was a unique experience at St Andrew&#8217;s, Coventry City hosted their landlords, Birmingham City. The Sky Blues have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3040,"featured_media":541526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8432],"tags":[1318,197,661,168,581,1915],"class_list":["post-541525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-fa-cup","tag-birmingham-city","tag-championship","tag-coventry-city","tag-efl","tag-fa-cup","tag-pep-clotet"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}