Birmingham City are RELEGATED from the Championship despite beating Norwich

Birmingham City have been relegated from the Championship in a disastrous first season for Tom Brady and the club's American ownership.

The Blues beat Norwich City 1-0 on the final day of the season but results elsewhere meant they will play in the third tier next season.

Brady, the seven-time Super Bowl winner, is the public face of the club's ambitious ownership group. He was not at Saturday's game, but instead enjoying himself at the Miami Grand Prix.

Led by chairman Tom Wagner and chief executive Garry Cook, they have plans worth £2billion to transform Birmingham City's fortunes but they took a significant blow on Saturday.

But they controversially sacked manager John Eustace in October and replaced him with Wayne Rooney as they sought a high-profile manager to take them to the next level.

It backfired spectacularly as they collected nine points from 15 games and Rooney was sacked in January.

Relegation to the third tier of English soccer means they will play against Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney's Wrexham next season.

Wins for Sheffield Wednesday at Sunderland, Blackburn Rovers at Leicester City and Plymouth against Hull rendered Seung-ho Paik’s 55th-minute header irrelevant as Birmingham’s 13-year tenure in the Championship came to an apologetic end.

A five minute delay halfway through the first half due to a medical issue in a capacity crowd of 27,680 at St Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park meant this game was always going to finish after their rivals.

And so by the final whistle, the atmosphere was already philosophical, with home fans singing ‘Que Sera Sera, wherever we’ll be we’ll be, we’re going to Shrewsbury’.

Hundreds of young fans invaded the pitch at the final whistle and a ball was produced, with the surreal sight of