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Third Round Replay
Wednesday 17 January 2007
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Ten man Newcastle had Steven Taylor sent off as they crashed to a humiliating 5-1 FA Cup defeat by Championship leaders Birmingham at St James' Park.

The Premiership side, trailing 2-0 at the interval, had just hauled themselves back into this Third-Round replay through a superb James Milner strike when England Under-21 defender Taylor saw red for a professional foul on DJ Campbell in the 57th minute.

From the resultant free-kick, Bruno N'Gotty emerged to score only his second goal for the Blues.

And worse was to follow for Newcastle manager Glenn Roeder when Sebastian Larsson, in the 83rd minute, and Campbell at the death completed the rout to book a home tie with Reading.

Influential midfielder Gary McSheffrey gave the visitors the lead with a disputed fifth-minute effort, and a stroke-of-half-time own goal by Nolberto Solano piled on the agony for Newcastle.

At White Hart Lane, England winger Aaron Lennon helped Tottenham to a comfortable 4-0 victory over Championship side Cardiff to book their place in the Fourth Round of The FA Cup.

Tottenham dominated the opening exchanges and were finally given their just rewards when Lennon opened the scoring on 27 minutes.

The England winger played a clever interchange with Didier Zokora and narrowly beat the offside trap before he slotted the ball past Cardiff keeper Neil Alexander.

Robbie Keane doubled Tottenham’s lead on the half hour mark. Dimitar Berbatov skipped past Cardiff defender Glenn Loovens before cutting the ball back for the Republic of Ireland international. Keane, who had only just returned from a knee injury, made no mistake striking the ball into the roof of the net.

Things were threatening to get out of hand for Cardiff when Steed Malbranque added a third on 42 minutes.

England striker Jermain Defoe wrapped up a convincing victory when he scored Tottenham’s fourth on 81 minutes.

Tottenham now face Southend in the fourth round at White Hart Lane on January 27.