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Barry Bannan, Gabby Agbonlahor and Coventry fans aim cheeky dig at relegated Birmingham

Barry Bannan, Gabby Agbonlahor and Coventry fans aim a cheeky dig at relegated Birmingham on the final day of the Championship season.

Birmingham will be playing third tier football for the first time since 1995, with a win at home to Norwich not enough as they were unable to avoid the drop.

A header from South Korea midfielder Paik Seung-ho in the 55th-minute was the only goal of the game, but results elsewhere sent them down.

Birmingham needed results from other matches to go their way, including Plymouth vs Hull, Sheffield Wednesday vs Sunderland, and John Eustace’s Blackburn Rovers vs Leicester.

Sammie Szmodics’ two second-half goals for Blackburn Rovers led to Birmingham City’s relegation.

Upon hearing this, Coventry fans had a good laugh at Birmingham’s downfall, with fans singing “Blues are going down ole ole ole”.

Another to poke fun was Sheffield Wednesday’s Barry Bannan, an ex-Aston Villa player, tweeting after his side were safe from the drop: “Anyone out in bham tonight? 😂😂😂”

He also liked a tweet from a Birmingham fan, who wrote: “Yeah tbf, we deserve it from him after what we were like 2 years ago.”

Barry Bannan then reposted a tweet from a fan showing a picture of him in an Aston Villa kit, just to remind everyone as his tweet went viral and had him trending.

Another ex-Villa player in Gabby Agbonlahor also poked fun as he couldn’t resist popping open a bottle of champagne after their relegation from the Championship.

He had been at talkSPORT at the time, ready to start his Gameday Phone-In show alongside Jamie O’Hara when he decided to post a video on social media.

Captioning the video, Gabby wrote: “Happy bank holiday everyone!”

He then said on radio: “It’s a great day… Birmingham City relegated to the third tier – third tier sounds worse than League One!

“Could it be the biggest blunder by an owner ever sacking John Eustace? October 9 they sacked him, they were sixth in the league – sixth place! They sacked him, they got in Rooney, and they’ve been relegated – that backfired!

“I think it was 1995 the last time they were in League One… but they doesn’t add much to the city anyway – most of Birmingham support the Villa!

“Rivalry and banter aside, though, and even though I dislike Birmingham City and they dislike me, you want Birmingham City to be in the Premier League.

“It’s good for the city, it’s good to have local teams, I even want West Brom to be promoted out of the play-offs and for Wolves to stay in the Premier League season after season, it’s good for the area.

“But when you’re making silly decisions like they did with Eustace, who – funnily enough – kept Blackburn up today. He put out a team to beat Leicester 2-0 and he’s kept them up.

“I bet he’s laughing, ‘Look at those jokers who sacked me, look at them now’.”

Twitter users reacted as Barry Bannan, Gabby Agbonlahor and Coventry fans aim a cheeky dig at relegated Birmingham…

@theavfcfaithful: BARRY 🫡🤣🤣👏

@brummieinsalop: Barry see you down digbeth you melt. See how big you are then.

@mor52850: Once a Villian always a Villian, love it Barry.

@FoxyN77: It’s been a long 15 year project but its time to come in Agent Bannan, your work is done.

@TheVillaDecree: Love ya kid.

@swfctw: get out in sheffield am sure they’ll be a few baz

@nathanswfc04_2: get DOWN there baz

@1875Ben: Show your face in digbeth you’ll get decked within 5 minutes can guarantee it 😂

@AlwaystheVillan: You’ll always be welcome here Barry.

@Jordan678924: 10 more years 10 more years Barry bannan 🔵⚪️🦉

@catrinavfc: BARRYYYYY 😭😭😭

@Billyy1875: Send address if you want it minge

@CarlosShires: #Ourskipper 💙🦉 GET IN THERE BAZZA!!!!

@PunjabiVillans: Love him 😂😂

@HoltecastPod: Once a Villan, always a Villan! 🟣🔵

@B22Longstone: forgot you played for villa 😂 perfect result then we staying up brum going down 🦉

@sulty2010: Let’s be honest we got what we deserved. The only positive is let’s hope the majority of these players are cleared out in the summer and we rebuild. These players will be straight on to their agents saying how they need to stay in the championship, they didn’t care all season.

@b_z_p1: Never, ever change Gabby 💜💙

@Cardinal27: Haha this is the sort of top shithousery I’m here for 😂😂👏👏

@ljb1875_: So much front for a bloke that let his mom get smashed for a tenner from the whole of brum

@chris_eaton_: I bet you can’t wait to welcome the 2019 National League North Champions 🎩

@_ElliotAV: Nothing less than you deserve. Hope you rot 😍😍😍

@theavfcfaithful: Enjoy League One Lads!

@blakedcfc: What happened to the party lads 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@iLukasx100: Ah well, at least you have a massive bunch of land so you can all get together and cry about it 😊

@wragg_nick: Lovely stuff, couldn’t have happened to a nicer set of fans. Nice to see beilik and buchanon go down as well. How ironic. 🐏🐏🐏🐏

@andy_cov93: Best of luck next season. Undoubtedly a huge name in that tier and with a bit of luck you’ll be able to become, the second team, to win the league one title whilst playing at St Andrews

@KeslerSZN:
Things are on the up for Birmingham
League 1🥶
3 billion stadium which hasn’t even been designed 🥶
Great decisions from the board (Rooney)🥶
Packed out stadiums (sold out 1 time this season)🥶
Don’t worry guys Aston Villa should be scared 🥶

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