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Birmingham City's 3-2 home defeat by Hull City was notable for a red card and an own goal from a player who's having a nightmare start for the Blues.

Birmingham City's indifferent start to the 2025-26 season continued with a 3-2 home defeat against Hull City, and fan ire is already turning upon one particular player, who is having a nightmare start for the club.

It's now one win in six for Blues, whose promising start to the season is already starting to fade into indifference.

A 3-2 home defeat by Hull City was another underwhelming performance, leaving them in 17th position in the Championship and with the club's ambitious project to win two successive promotions from League One to the Premier League starting to look extremely shaky indeed.

And on another disappointing afternoon for the club, fan ire has started to turn upon one specific player, whose summer transfer to St. Andrew's is already starting to turn into a bit of a nightmare.

Birmingham City fans furious at Jack Robinson over own goal red card double v Hull City

After the match, Birmingham City fans' attention turned to the performance of defender Jack Robinson, whose afternoon couldn't have gone much worse.

It only took eleven minutes for his afternoon to start going horrifically wrong, when a Kyle Joseph shot across goal got caught under the defender's feet and bobbled in for an own goal to give Hull the lead.

And things got even worse for him early in the second half, when he managed to pick up two cards in the space of around six seconds and got himself sent off, with the second appearing to be a straight red for abusing match official Ruebyn Ricardo - it was a second red card in four matches for Robinson, who was also dismissed during their 3-0 defeat at Coventry at the end of September.

It's fair to say that the reaction of Blues supporters was apoplectic. Among the responses, one fan wanting him gone from the club.

Others felt that Robinson has an obligation to apologise publicly for getting himself into this situation and, possibly tongue in cheek, announce his retirement from the game.

Others had a slightly more thoughtful take on the matter, wondering why Robinson was starting for Birmingham when the Blues had a perfectly acceptable replacement for him lined up on the bench.

Another Blues fan was in agreement with many who believe that Robinson shouldn't appear for the club again after his latest dismissal.

Jack Robinson's lack of discipline will have left Chris Davies fuming - his time could be up

Few would have predicted during the summer, when Jack Robinson signed for Birmingham City from Sheffield United, that his start to this season would have been such a disaster.

Robinson is an extremely experienced defender, with well over a decade's experience under his belt. Yet in the space of just four matches this season, he's increased his career tally of red cards by 50%, and in a largely needless manner.

The own goal was, in a sense, understandable. It was a low shot which seemed to get caught under his feet in such a way that it would have been difficult for him to move out of the way of the ball.

But the red card was a different matter. The yellow card which led to it was a rush of blood to the head following a fairly inconsequential decision on the part of the referee to give a goal-kick over what Birmingham's players clearly believed to be a deflected shot, and his follow-up comments to Ricardo clearly weren't appropriate.

It's also worth bearing in mind that this is the second time in four league matches that this has happened to Robinson, and that his dismissal at Coventry last month came for two yellow cards that can similarly put down to a lack of discipline.

Robinson is, at 32-years-old, not a young player, and as an experienced professional he should know that, regardless of the rightness or wrongness of the referee's decision, there are times when you really do have to keep your head down and stay quiet.

Birmingham ended up beaten 3-2, with a stoppage-time goal making the points safe for Hull. Manager Chris Davies is increasingly under fire as his team's season starts to atrophy, but he'd be justified in thinking that his team would have been able to rescue the game - they were 2-1 down at the time of the dismissal - had they had eleven players on the pitch for the remainder of the match.

He will surely now be wondering whether Robinson is a chance that he can take again, once the player's suspension has been served.