Blues get the nod from Grey

JULIAN GRAY headed Birmingham into the fifth round of the FA Cup after Steve Bruce’s side took advantage of the fact that promotion-chasing Reading was resting most of its first-team players.

Mikael Forssell bundled in an opener on the half-hour mark at St Andrews, but Stephen Hunt levelled for the Coca-Cola Championship leaders with a spectacular volley.

With extra-time to settle the replay looming, Gray, hitherto a peripheral figure in the game, headed home from close range after Jiri Jarosik had found him with a deft cross.