Blyth Spartans 2-3 Birmingham City - FA Cup Third Round | Goals & Highlights

Birmingham City came from two down with three goals in six second-half minutes to avoid an embarrassing FA Cup upset at non-league Blyth Spartans. The Championship club are 120 places above Blyth in the football pyramid but trailed to two Robbie Dale strikes. The Blyth captain - a barman in his mother's pub - turned in a Jarrett Rivers cross from six yards and added his seventh goal in six FA Cup ties with a run and finish from 18 yards. His efforts sparked a standing half-time ovation from the 3,644 fans packed into Croft Park but when Lee Novak drilled home on 52 minutes, the mood shifted. Birmingham striker Wes Thomas's determined finish to level was in fitting with his side's second-half attitude and his headed winner from four yards prevented a first defeat by non-league opposition in 21 years. Blyth - conquerors of Hartlepool in round two and the lowest-ranked side left in the competition - could be forgiven for dreaming of just a second fourth-round appearance in their 116-year history at the break, such was their control. The Northern Premier League outfit looked far from a side sat 16th in the seventh tier of English football and familiar with the test their bobbly home pitch offers. To find out more about the FA visit: http://thefa.com Follow us on Twitter:   / fa   The FA Cup on Facebook:   / thefacup   England on Facebook:   / englandteam   FAWSL on Facebook:   / fawsl