Good evening and welcome to our live coverage of Birmingham's rearranged Premier League clash against Newcastle at St Andrew's! Kick-off is scheduled for 19:45 UK time...

Newcastle win another corner on the left, and Barton's in no rush to take it

Birmingham sub: Obafemi Martins off, Cameron Jerome on

That'll be Martins's final contribution to this match, and it's been far from an ideal night for the Nigerian against his former club. Birmingham lining up a change

Martins races onto a long ball over the top, before being felled by Harper! Birmingham's fans want a red card, but the Nigerian is offside.

Coloccini receives the ball, and tries to play it low through the defence but it's straight out for a goal kick

Gutierrez makes a real nuisance of himself on the right wing, holding the ball up before playing back to Barton

Zigic gets a talking to after a petulant challenge on Barton under a high ball - he's not having the best game, the Serbian

Birmingham are going to have change something, and quickly. Birmingham aren't a side who score many goals, and it's going to be a long way back from 2-0 down

Coloccini sends a long ball forwards to Best, but it goes straight out of play

Birmingham head the ball clear, but Newcastle can smell blood at the moment. Lovenkrands chases a long ball, but Foster gets there first and clears

Brilliant finish from Best, and a second assist for Gutierrez! The Argentine is back on the ball and beats three men in the middle of the pitch before winning a corner!

GOOOOOAL!! Gutierrez has the ball for Newcastle on the left - he turns Larsson inside out on the edge of the box, swings in a cross to BEST WHO HEADS PAST FOSTER FOR A SECOND NEWCASTLE GOAL!

Barton knocks the ball to the dead ball line, where it's kept in by a Birmingham head

It's all got very scrappy at the start of this half, as Barton and Ferguson get involved in some handbags in the middle of the pitch

Barton plays a lovely low ball through the Birmingham defence for Lovenkrands to chase, but the Newcastle striker is flagged offside this time

We start the second half much in the same vain as we spent the first half - with Zigic being flagged for offside. He's Serbia's answer to Inzaghi, this fella

Welcome back for the second half in Birmingham!

HALF TIME! That's it for the first half in Birmingham! It was an electrifying start thanks to Peter Lovenkrands's 2nd-minute opener, but neither side was able to live up to it in the remaining 46 minutes of cloggy, low-quality football. Join us in a few moments for part two.

It's end to end stuff to finish, but without any real chances at either end. Lee Mason blows for a Birmingham free kick in the middle, which leads to some more head-tennis inside the Newcastle half

We'll have four minutes of injury time at St. Andrews

Another high ball is sent into the Newcastle box from the left, and Zigic, Williamson, and Harper all go up for the ball. Harper holds onto the ball, but stays down after a bruising collision with the lanky Birmingham striker