'Wait is it Fleetwood Town or Yeovil playing tomorrow?' - FA Cup third round (and onward) 2012

Let's kick off with some predictions:

Man Utd to beat Newcastle 2-0 in the final, Hernandez with both goals. Then Ferguson retires, 'going out on top'.

Surely he'll go out after winning the Europa League with Utd. The one he's been waiting for.

That'll teach the 'pool fans for singing Que cera cera after 15 mins.

Nevin at 0-0

Pat Nevin at Anfield on BBC Radio 5 live: "If you change the team about (as Liverpool have done), it can have an impact. But they play with each other in training and it will come together for them. They just can't wait to go a goal behind before it happens."

ORLY?

2140: Oldham midfielder Tom Adeyemi takes a throw-in and then turns to confront a spectator in the front few rows at Anfield. He is seriously unhappy here with something that was said to him and looks close to tears. The game is stopped for a few minutes and Steven Gerrard has a word with Adeyemi. Play is back under way now but we may hear more about that one.

??????????

huh, i was half heartedly watching but missed that one

CARROLL

cometh the hour (if the hour happens to be the 4th goal against Lge One opposition) cometh the man

your move, howard, your move...

Fill your boots lads

Watching a replay of Utd-City FA Cup tie from 1996 now, what a player Kinkladze was.

what players they *all* were, eh

anyone with a budget ass Virgin TV package like myself can get ESPN free for this rest of Jan it seems

so far this has enabled me to watch the last 30 minutes of a wholly wretched Brum-Wolves game

marcwebber on Twitter: "Cheltenham mascot insisted on shaking Harry Redknapp's hand as he walked to his seat. Harry quite shocked."

Ooh, beauty for Macclesfield says the radio

listening to the Cup on the radio...

Ben Arfa with a wonder goal apparently

james brown scored!

better not put that on the ronaldhino bottle opener thread lol (if you were watching jeff stelling on sky sports news you know what im talking about)

oh wait its a league game not cup

Dos Santos just scored! o_O how long ago since he last did that for Spurs' first team?

Cox hat-trick! Trap out

Dos Santos just scored! o_O how long ago since he last did that for Spurs' first team?

― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, January 7, 2012 11:45 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

apparently defoe's opener was already going in from him too

viewable anywhere?

Top bracket work from the Beeb:

Swindon manager Paulo Di Canio: "I'm very happy for all these people (fans)

Villa have found their level.

Loving the Gas fan they've just shown skinning up. Stay classy, Bristol.

tremendous goal by future Man Utd also-ran Ciaran Clark, not much so far from future Ballon D'Or winner Gary Gardner

think some bad shit might be happening in Stephen Warnock's mind

Coventry manager Andy Thorn:

"We need men, we don't need shrinking violets. We were not as manly as we could have been."

tremendous goal by future Man Utd also-ran Ciaran Clark, not much so far from future Ballon D'Or winner Gary Gardner

― MPx4A, Saturday, 7 January 2012 19:14 (Yesterday)

surprised my crazy hyping of wilshere as a future ballon d'or candidate is still a meme for mocking.

Whatever happened to that guy?

scholes is on the bench for man u.

wtf.

no way

philmcnulty Phil McNulty
Scholes returns already called desperation by some but why? Ferguson short of players & will have seen him at Carrington every day.

Bloody hell. What about Bobby Charlton?

Who's going to give the kids their tea tonight?

A decent agent would've negotiated him a generous appearance fee for this shit.

Just realised Nult means 'why are some calling it desperation?' rather than 'wtf is Scholes returning?'

Yep. It's sad he was a Nult.

Wonder if Little Scholesy will accidentally cunt a Citeh player in the ankles knowing full well that the length of suspension he gets is irrelevant?

missed hearin what keano thought of it

BBC Radio 5 live commentator Alan Green on Scholes' return: "I'm astounded a player who retired back in May is suddenly on the bench and makes himself available until the end of the season. It's asking a lot. I think it's a panic measure."

otm

darragh, spurs goals from yesterday here http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/tottenham-3-cheltenham-0/
defoe's poach is pretty lol

ta

Stayed tuned for the magic of the Budweiser FA Cup!

Has anyone significant been left out to accommodate Scholes?

Cantona?

Thinking of the young lads, Pogba and so on

YES!

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disappointed with the result but loved the shit out of carroll in that game. van persie levels of composure for that goal. number none

xpost that looks over the line right there

can't tell to my eyes. Which is not enough to call it a goal.

yeah that looks over

Yeah, that picture looks convincing.

go post on RAWK about it already

Yup, that's in.

And the comeback was great viewing, a hoy hoy you know nothing.

ynwa

what comeback?

from 0-2 to 1-2, hoy

if even aldo says its over then you know its a goal

The Liverpool fan (actually from Liverpool) next to me says that if you have to look at twenty views and slow it down as play it from a variety of angles and then only one picture says it's a goal... Then it's not a goal.

I couldn't care less tbh.

aldotm

you're all wrong

but...the picture clearly shows it's not over

It shows it is over ffs

It doesn't, but aldo is right anyway

surprisingly ungraceless interview with dalglish

I have no axe to grind one way or the other (as I don't like either team), but the ball didn't cross the line

not arsed about whether it crossed the line or not. our midfield was a mess, downing was shite, spearing was shite, enrique was shite, they were all shite. carroll was great.

Downing was playing? Never knew that from watching it.

thought it was in, itv replay work shoddy as fuck, angle off and kept missing the relevant frame

darragh otm

surprisingly ungraceless interview with dalglish

dunno where youre getting that impression. he basically said liverpool were shite for the first hour and he didnt make a big song and dance out of the carroll non-goal either.

UNgraceless

ah yeah sorry carry on, kneejerk reaction, just used to nakh slagging off liverpool

heh well i try to spread the disfavour around the big clubs

i would really like to see a liverpool that could play good football, challenge for proper honours and not engage it ludicrous selfdefeating episodes like l'affaire suarez or the ill thought through buy british policy

ha i guess i still reflexively think of liverpool as a big team

the moment ppl stop with the cheap lolz at their expense will be the moment they join forest, ajax, reims, corinthians fc....

Thought it was over but it's sort of ambiguous.Carroll should've aimed either side of James blunt.

carroll should have been on after 20 mins suarez wasn't ever gonna trouble the back four by himself.

not with downing doing nothing as usual and bellamy being oddly quiet

still the 433 of suarez maxi bellamy away at chelsea was the best ive seen liverpool this year

if this gives carroll another year to be mostly useless then thats gonna hurt liverpool

making the big calls huh

That's the seventh time Ashley Cole has won the FA Cup. Does anyone else come close? Maybe an Old Etonian or two might've managed a few, but otherwise wins have always been spread around widely 'til the last few years.

And Chris - what's the backstory to Liverpool fans booing the national anthem? I didn't see that bit, but the papers suggest it was extensive.

h8 england

Five is the next best I think:

The record for most FA Cup wins by a player used to be five, jointly held by Charles Wollaston (Wanderers), Arthur Kinnaird (Wanderers & Old Etonians) and Jimmy Forrest (Blackburn Rovers). Arsenal & Chelsea's Ashley Cole won his sixth winners medal and thus set a new record in 2010.

x - not really caring - post

see j carragher on liv v eng

ya well when one team picks you regardless of ability or not y'll get biased

Seems odd that Ryan Giggs hasn't won an FA Cup since 2004.

Dull match today until the almost fightback.

Getting so fucking tired of Drogba being "injured" every time his team is winning.

it wasn't rly dull at any stage imo but i was lolling at lfc fans from 11mibs onwatds tbf

srsly? 1st half was waste

And Chris - what's the backstory to Liverpool fans booing the national anthem? I didn't see that bit, but the papers suggest it was extensive.

God, queen, silly little song. Loved it. The papers aren't making a big deal of this are they? Oh wait, of course they are. Excellent.

No offence to any royalists or religious people btw. (I've been known to partake in both as it happens). Just can't stand the anthem.

fuck royalists & religious ppl

Was eating my hands for the first 60 mins of that.

Yesterday's incident complicates the goal-line issue, would the tech solve the question?

It would have a better chance if they set it up in line with the goalline

The technology they're introducing should solve these problems. I think it's a choice between goal-line cameras and a sensor that activates a buzzer or something when the ball goes over.

it would solve the problem if it was done half right

Ball wasn't over, goal wasn't given, dunno what's complicated or controversial tbh.