Chris Davies receives Birmingham City touchline ban for Easter weekend

Birmingham City boss Chris Davies collected his sixth yellow card of the season at Wembley on Sunday

Birmingham City manager Chris Davies will serve a two-match touchline ban after he collected his sixth yellow card of the season at Wembley on Sunday.

Davies was booked by the referee while remonstrating on the touchline during Blues' 2-0 Vertu Trophy final defeat to Peterborough United and in doing so has racked up a second suspension, this one by a further game.

Blues boss Davies was first banned for a game way back in September. When he collected his third yellow, against Posh, he missed the meeting with Huddersfield Town with St Andrew's as a result.

Davies said at the time: “It’s something I have to be aware of moving forwards because I want to be down there with the team. Where it comes from is the opposition delaying the game with time-wasting, that’s where it comes from.

"The reason I ran to retrieve the ball is because I’m sick and tired of oppositions taking so long with everything – whether it’s going down, taking throw-ins, they take an age to take a goal-kick. I feel like nothing is being done about it and then you take it into your own hands, which is to run and get the ball to speed it up, and that’s what happens.”

Since, Davies had collected two more yellows and then, on Sunday, he accumulated a sixth - that means a two-game touchline ban. Davies will be absent from the pitchside when Blues welcome Crawley Town to St Andrew's this Good Friday and then again when they travel next Easter Monday to Burton Albion.

Davies will be free to return to the touchline when they head to Stevenage next Thursday and then, the following Sunday, for their final home game of the season against Mansfield Town. Blues then head to Blackpool and, on the final day of the season, Cambridge United.

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