What’s Hot and What’s Not from this week’s FA Cup third round replays

NOT – Gianfranco Zola

Birmingham were beaten 3-1 at Newcastle on Wednesday night and, although many sides will come unstuck at St James’ Park this season, the Blues’ loss is magnified by Gianfranco Zola’s poor start to life as manager.

The former Chelsea forward replaced the sacked Gary Rowett last month, and has since won none of his seven matches in charge.

It has meant that the club have fallen from the cusps of the play-off places to 12th in the division, but more importantly, they are now nine points off the top six.

While it’s not an insurmountable gap, Birmingham don’t look like getting that elusive victory anytime soon – Zola needs to get things going fast before he comes under increasing scrutiny at St Andrew’s.