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Each club needed to progress through three rounds to reach the final. Matches were contested over two legs, with one leg at each team's home ground. Birmingham won all but one of their six legs. They defeated [[Inter Milan]] home and away: no other English team was to defeat Inter in the [[San Siro]] stadium for another 40 years.<ref name=ReutersInter/> Roma took a lengthier route to the final: they required a [[replay (sports)|replay]] in both quarter-final and semi-final, although won each replay by a comfortable margin.
In the first leg of the final, played in front of a crowd of only 21,000 at [[St Andrew's (stadium)|St Andrew's]], [[Pedro Manfredini]] scored twice for Roma, and goalkeeper [[Fabio Cudicini]] made several high-class saves, before [[Mike Hellawell]] and [[Bryan Orritt]] scored late in the game to equalise the scores. In the second leg, watched by 60,000 spectators at the [[Stadio Olimpico]], Roma won by two goals to nil
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In the first few minutes of the match, Roma failed to convert three clear chances.<ref name=StampaLeg2/> After ten minutes, manager Carniglia ran {{convert|60|yards}} onto the pitch to confront Birmingham captain Bloomfield, who was bending over an injured Roma player.<ref name=MirrorLeg2/> Following an incident between [[Bryan Orritt]] and [[Giampaolo Menichelli]], blows were exchanged among the players, and Carniglia had to be restrained by Roma officials from joining in.<ref name=StampaLeg2/> This time, Birmingham manager [[Gil Merrick]] followed Carniglia onto the pitch, feeling he "had to be there to try and cool things down".<ref name=ExpressLeg2/> Play continued, albeit still marred by a lack of discipline. As in the first leg, Birmingham's physical approach provoked reactions from the Roma players. Menichelli was carried off injured after an incident with [[Brian Farmer]], Lojacono raised his hands to the referee, who took no action, and the game reached the interval still goalless, which ''La Stampa'' thought a fair reflection of the half.<ref name=StampaLeg2/>
The match was hostile both on and off the field. [[Jimmy Harris (footballer, born 1933)|Jimmy Harris]] recalled the Roma players hanging back as the teams approached the pitch, leaving their visitors to be showered with cups of sand which penetrated the wire mesh protecting players from items thrown from above.{{cn|date=July 2020}} Although the Birmingham team – nicknamed the "[[Brummie dialect|Brummie]] bashers" in the tabloid press – had a reputation for physicality, the ''Daily Mirror'' expressed amazement at their self-control "as the Italians used every trick of body checking and obstruction to make things run their way".<ref name=MirrorLeg2/> At half-time, the referee warned both captains that any further display of indiscipline or temper would result in the culprit being sent off, and issued an individual warning to Lojacono.<ref name=MailLeg2/>
After 61 minutes, a move begun by Lojacono ended with an attempted clearance of his shot striking Farmer on the shins and rebounding into the net.<ref name=ExpressLeg2/> ''La Stampa'' remarked on the improved player discipline once Roma had the lead.<ref name=StampaLeg2/> Birmingham rallied for a short period after the goal, and Orritt and Singer each "missed the sort of chances that cannot be ignored in cup games",<ref name=ExpressLeg2/> before Roma regained control. Manfredini missed three good chances and hit the post with the goalkeeper beaten,<ref name=LunitaLeg2/> and the outclassed Birmingham side finally resorted to before, in the second minute of stoppage time, [[Paolo Pestrin]] broke forward and hit a powerful shot from distance into the top corner of the net.<ref name=MirrorLeg2/>
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<ref name=Storie6061>{{cite web |url=http://www.storiedicalcio.altervista.org/coppa_fiere/coppa_fiere_1960_1961.html |title=La storia della Coppa delle Fiere: 1960/61: Roma |language=it |trans-title=History of the Fairs Cup: 1960/61: Roma |publisher=Storie di Calcio |access-date=8 December 2012}}</ref>
<ref name=50years>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/9407612.stm |title=Carling Cup final: McLeish hails 'greatest achievement' |publisher=BBC Sport |date=27 February 2011 |access-date=8 December 2012}}<br>{{cite news |url=http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/looking-back-when-birmingham-city-blazed-159742 |title=Looking back: When Birmingham City blazed the trail in Europe |first=Colin |last=Tattum |work=Birmingham Mail |date=18 August 2011 |access-date=8 December 2012}}</ref>
<ref name=ASRHist>{{cite web |url=http://www.asroma.it/en/team/history.html#fall_rebirth |title=History: Fall and rebirth |publisher=AS Roma |access-date=8 December 2012 |archive-date=18 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118041804/http://www.asroma.it/en/team/history.html#fall_rebirth |url-status=dead }}</ref>
<ref name=FIFARoma>{{cite web |url=https://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/clubs/club=31083/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090614120212/http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/clubs/club=31083/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 14, 2009 |title=AS Roma |publisher=FIFA |access-date=8 December 2012}}</ref>
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