The FA Cup

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Well, nothing on here much for discussion so thought this could begin.

At the moment Westisbest is probably pulling his hair out, whilst Wigan are marching on towards there second FA Cup in a row.

They were second best in Europe and in spain, lost most of the trophies and most of the head to head match ups with Barca in a two horse race. Yes coming in second in a two horse race with 18 other donkeys is basically finishing last.

socal1976 wrote:

Duty281 wrote:Jose has bigger ambitions - notably the PL and CL double.

All perfectly within reach...

Liverpool to triumph tomorrow I reckon. Let's say 1-2.

Jose has no shot at CL, Guardiola willl run him out of the CL just like he ran him out of Spain. David Luiz and or Terry will get opened up like a tin of beans by Bayern.

The difference between Jose's Real vs Guardiola's Barca and Jose's Chelsea vs Guardiola's Bayern is that Chelsea are the best defense on the continent. I mean, even a back four in a team of 10 men, with two right backs, a left back and a midfielder, including Bosingwa at centre back, after JT got sent off and Cahill limped off, held Barcelona and got a 2-2 draw from 2-0 down. So you think that our full strength D will be torn open by a group of attackers less talented than Barcelona's?

Have you not seen much of Chelsea this season. I love David Luiz but he will never play at CB in a game like that if JT and Cahill are both available. Even Azpilicueta would get in before Luiz by shuffling Brani to CB.

socal1976 wrote:

Duty281 wrote:Jose has bigger ambitions - notably the PL and CL double.

All perfectly within reach...

Liverpool to triumph tomorrow I reckon. Let's say 1-2.

Jose has no shot at CL, Guardiola willl run him out of the CL just like he ran him out of Spain. David Luiz and or Terry will get opened up like a tin of beans by Bayern.

Not bloody likely.

Chelsea for the CL this season. I've always held a soft spot for the West Londoners.

Everton 1-0 Swansea

Traore with a goal 4 minutes into his full debut.

Everton 1-1 Swansea

Great header by Jonathan De Guzman.

The commentary in this game is just beyond belief. I know its early Sunday, but come on at least sound intrested!

Good little game this

Good game wrecked by the commentary. 

Tarore looks decent.

Reasonably full strength side

@Official_NFFC: #NFFC Starting XI: De Vries, Halford, Collins, Lascelles, Fox, Jara, Paterson, Majewski, Reid(C), Henderson, Cox

Hobbs rested.

Traore reminds me of Crouch so much. Was bullied around out there really

Everton 2-1 Swansea

Comedy defending by Neil Taylor and Naismith the sub pounces.

Best striker in England is on, Leroy Lita.

3-1 game over

Great pen by Baines.

YAYA SANOGOOOOOOOO

FM beast

IMHO, ITV have the best analysts. Clarke Carlisle, for example, is much better than Mark Lawrenson.

Brighton are going to the semi-finals!

Adrian Chiles kills it all

Some potentially great cup ties there. Potential Merseyside and Sheffield derbies

Sheffield Wednesday or Charlton at the CG if we can hold this lead.

That'll do

So Forest have a p*ss easy home time, so lucky!!!

Sunderland at home will take that. But there is no chance we will beat Hull.

City are through.

Arsenal vs Everton should be a decent game.

NickisBHAFC wrote:So Forest have a p*ss easy home time, so lucky!!!

Sunderland at home will take that. But there is no chance we will beat Hull.
City are through.

Arsenal vs Everton should be a decent game.

Of course Brighton will beat Hull.

Peter Brezovan or Casper Ankercrap are expected to be in goal. Might as well surrender the place now. 

Would love to stuff that greasy hair Uruguayan though.

HT at Bramall Lane and its 1-0 still.

We've been fairly comfortable in possession so far, Clough could do with mentioning a QF vs Wednesday is in the offing, theyve been fairly flat so far

Arsenal: Fabianski, Jenkinson, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Flamini, Arteta, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ozil, Podolski, Sanogo .Subs: Sagna, Wilshere, Giroud, Viviano, Cazorla, Gibbs, Gnabry.

Liverpool: Brad Jones, Flanagan, Agger, Skrtel, Cissokho, Coutinho, Gerrard, Allen, Sterling, Suarez, Sturridge. Subs: Toure, Aspas, Moses, Henderson, Mignolet, Kelly, Teixeira

Arsenal's bench looks stronger than there starting 11!

Should be a good game this. Think Arsenal will edge it.

We have Bayern on Wednesday so no surprise really. Thought Gnabry & Zelalem maybe get a run out though. Be interesting to see if Yaya is as good at football as he is at FM   

2 missed now!! Liverpool's nippy strikers are just a horrible match-up for Arsenal's defence. None of their defenders are light on their feet.

Sanogo is a big boy, Last time i saw him for the reserves he didn't look 6ft 3in

Monreal & Flanagan booked

Arsenal 1-0 Liverpool - Chamberlain

Very flat atmosphere, even after the goal (although that could just be my TV).

Doesn't sound bad on the radio (Don't have BT) Im sure your use to being at places with a flat atmosphere so ill trust your judgment   

Yeah the Atmosphere does seem very flat/quiet. One could be forgiven for thinking there in a library. 

1-0 Arsenal. Bit harsh on Liverpool. But hey that's football.

1-1, De Vries mistake gives away a tap in

Fernando wrote:Doesn't sound bad on the radio (Don't have BT) Im sure your use to being at places with a flat atmosphere so ill trust your judgment   

It's the acoustics, honest!!

It might be BT Sport because the crowd seem to make much less noise during their live games than on ITV or MotD highlights.

It doesn't sound flat on my stream.
There is never normaly a lot of noise @Arsenal but today seems louder then normal.

It's going to be one of those days where the end product just isn't going to be good enough for Liverpool.

It's been a bit rough, hasn't it!!? Aside from the first 5-10 minutes, Liverpool haven't really been in this. Sterling's been completely anonymous so they're either going to have to sub him or get him to switch sides with Sturridge.

More than slightly harsh penalty given as it hits Collins arm from half a yard away

I think Sterling has been probably the only player looking to create for Liverpool, Suarez needs to be moved centrally, you don't put your best player out wide in a game like this, Sturridge can go wide, not fluid enough up front. Team unsurprisingly looks worse without Henderson who makes the system work with his hard work, Allen simply isn't good enough, too immobile.

3-1 now after a break.

Howard Webb looking absolutely flabbergasted that Sterling dare touch him.

Ah well, at least we threw away a cup game. Annoying that we missed a wide open opportunity. Let them back in the game from nothing and an unfortunate penalty decision. We lacked intensity in the 2nd half though

Sheff United 3-1 Nottingham Forest       

OMG A SHEFFIELD DERBY IN THE QUARTER'S THAT WOULD BE MENTAL!!!!!!!

What a game that will be.

We could end up with a Merseyside derby (if Liverpool turn it round), Sheffield derby, last season's cup final and Poyet going back to his old place. Or Bruce going back to Sunderland, loosely interesting.

Gonna have Sunderland at Wembley two times at least and one of the awful Sheffield clubs there (pray for Wednesday not the Blunts [the Bl is pronounced like a C])

We all dream of an Addicks FA Cup win

Flappyhandski's been equal to everything so far. He must think he's de Gea with all these saves with his feet!!

Arsenal 2-0 Liverpool - Podolski

Manchester City are Evens for the FA Cup

I think that is that. Citeh fans can breathe a sigh of relief as probably the one team who could stop them winning the cup are going out.

Think everyone in England will be praying Wednesday win!!

Arsenal 2-0 Liverpool. Game over.

Great goal.

I'm hoping for Hull and Charlton wins