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Birmingham City's X account had something to say about Jay Stansfield's and his goal against Ipswich on X, and Tractor Boys fans have reacted to it.

Six days on from their season-opening draw against Ipswich Town, Birmingham City's X account had something to say about Jay Stansfield, and Ipswich fans have reacted.

Birmingham City and Ipswich Town provided the curtain-raiser for the 2025-26 season with a 1-1 draw at St Andrew's last Friday night.

They took the lead with a first-half goal from Jay Stansfield, and were only pegged back in stoppage-time when George Hirst converted a controversially-awarded penalty kick.

But almost a week on from this fixture, the club's official X account has had something to say about Stansfield which was easy to interpret as a sly dig at Ipswich and which provoked quite a reaction from Ipswich supporters.

"This is what I do" - Birmingham X account celebrates Jay Stansfield

Birmingham's official X account has posted a picture of Jay Stansfield knee-sliding following his goal against Ipswich on Friday night, with the caption, "This is what I do", a reference to Hirst having cupped his ear to the home fans in celebration and saying 'That's what I do' near the corner flag, and then making an extremely similar comment in his post-match interview with Sky Sports.

The post was met with quite a reaction from fans of both clubs, with Ipswich supporters replying with pictures of Hirst celebrating his equaliser, along with other messages, some of which were keen to point out that Ipswich's rivals are and forever will be Norwich City, and not Birmingham City.

One reply posted that: "Think the words ‘rent free’ come to mind. So rattled by us it’s mad", while another asked, "Is a whole club really obsessed with Ipswich." Birmingham fans, for their part, seemed delighted to see the club's account celebrating Stansfield's goal, interpreting the picture as 'throwing shade' upon the pre-season promotion favourites.

Scoring goals is what Stansfield does, but this social media match ended as even as the actual match did

There is certainly a strong case to be made for saying, in the case of Jay Stansfield, scoring goals "is what he does." Since arriving at Birmingham on loan from Fulham in 2023 - a deal later made permanent the following summer for a League One record transfer fee - the striker has scored 38 goals in all competitions over the two full seasons that he's been with the club. Furthermore, he added to his tally for this season by scoring the winning goal against Sheffield United in the EFL Cup the following Wednesday, making it two goals in two games for him so far this season.

The outcome of the match between Birmingham and Ipswich wasn't an especially satisfactory one for supporters of either club. The Blues were the better team for much of the evening, and there will have been annoyance at dropping two points to a stoppage-time penalty kick. Come the end of the season, the margins between success and failure in this division can be very narrow indeed, and two points dropped in the middle of August count for as much as two points dropped at the end of April.

But regardless of Hirst's post-match comments, while Ipswich supporters will obviously have been delighted at scoring a late goal to rescue a point - there are few joys in football than a 95th-minute equaliser or winner - the overall performance of the team throughout the evening didn't establish the sort of dominance that we might have expected from a team expected to challenge for promotion straight back to the Premier League this season.

If anything, honours ended up as even in terms of this social media post as they did at St Andrew's on Friday night.