For their part Steve Bruce's boys seemed content to sit back and take a beating, showing none of the fight and spirit needed from a team scrapping for their Premiership life.
Indeed the only thing the Blues fans had to cheer, aside from there side's solitary shot on target, was the news that relegation rivals Portsmouth were temporarily behind to Sunderland.
But if this game, and Pompey's subsequent comeback, are anything to go by, the St. Andrew's faithful look likely to be cheering from ringside seats at Hull, Luton, and Leeds next season.
If the spectre of relegation does eventually manifest itself into a living, breathing force for the Blues they can only have themselves to blame.
So negative and without direction were they that a prize-fight official would have been within his rights to call off the bout at half-time.
Everton started much the brighter and from a string of flowing moves Tim Cahill and then James Beattie narrowly failed to connect with two crosses from the impressive Phil Neville.
The World Cup hopeful went close himself on the quarter-hour mark after another sweeping move saw him cut in from the right and drill a left-footed shot inches wide.
But despite Everton's dominance of possession, Maik Taylor had to wait until just after the half-hour mark to pull off his first real save.
The lively Leon Osman picked up a bouncing ball on the edge of the box, and clipped a dipping volley goalwards, which the City keeper did well to tip over.
But if Osman's chance was speculative Andy van der Meyde's, five minutes before half-time was gilt-edged.
The recalled Dutchman found himself on the end of a swerving Beattie cross at the back post, but from four yards out his diving downward header cannoned up and over the bar.
The second half started much the same with Everton doing all the running and Birmingham happy to let them do so.
Beattie thought he had made the all-important breakthrough when he fired past Taylor after Osman's deflected drive. But the jubilant cheers of the Goodison faithful were soon quashed when the linesman raised his flag for offside.
David Weir saw a powerful volley expertly saved, James McFadden went close with a free-kick and Nicky Butt almost headed the ball into his own net from a Neville cross.
But in the end Bruce and Birmingham got what they came for, and a little more than they deserved.