Full fourth-round draw
Man City or Leicester City v Tottenham
Swansea v Preston or Reading
Northampton or Rotherham v Man Utd
Kidderminster or Wolves v West Ham
Arsenal v Middlesbrough
Coventry v Accrington or Colchester
Ipswich v Sunderland
Luton v Tranmere or Bolton
Liverpool v Newcastle Utd
Burnley v Gillingham
Nottingham Forest v Sheffield Utd
Portsmouth v Barnsley or Scunthorpe
Everton v Fulham
Telford v Millwall
Southend or Scarborough v Watford or Chelsea
Birmingham v Wimbledon or Stoke City

Telford vs Millwall GO TELFORD PLEASE GOD YES!

Spurs vs Man C/Leicester could really go any way.

Chelsea will beat Watford and whoever - or is this an occasion to dust off the word 'whomsoever'? perhaps not - they face in the 4th round.

The BBC's momentary suggestion that it was Man City vs Spurs will have angered Leicester and will ensure that Leicester City win the replay.

Leicester will beat Tottenham at the Walkers Stadium, possibly with a goal from Sir Les along the way.

I'd think Rotherham - Man Utd for Sunday, yes, but Liverpool -Newcastle also a Sunday game, on Sky.

Cup winners: Arsenal. Runners-up: ... Birmingham City.

Mention of the Six of the Best recalls that year's odd Cup innovation - there was actually a third-place playoff that year, United beating Watford in front of a meagre crowd. How many would've showed up for a Spurs-Palace bronze medal match, perhaps at the Valley, in '95? I'll tell you - two hundred and forty seven.

I like 3rd-place play-offs including those of World Cups 1982 and 1986. I am saddened by the decline of this institution.

I nearly tipped Everton for runners-up. But Birmingham seem very likely lads to me. All too likely.

Predictions for Liverpool - Newcastle? Could the Magpies actually grab an explosive win at Anfield itself (a Shearer header, a deflected Robert free-kick), forcing the Kop into stunned silence and raising the red camp's crisis pitch to something quite possibly approaching fever pitch?

I think we should go through all the possible FA Cup third-place playoffs with imaginary results. 1980: Liverpool 1 (Case 63'), Everton 1 (King 88') at Prenton Park, Paisley beats Lee at gin rummy for the medal.

1999, Wembley (Conference Centre): Spurs 0-0 Arsenal, Spurs edge post-match debate 11-10 (Bergkamp abstains);

1985, Comet staff car park, Rugeley Outlet Village: Luton Town 11-1 Man Utd (Scholes, Giggs, Beckham debuts)

Expert summarizer: Daniel Amokachi.

(I can't seem to remember whom United beat in the 1995 SF - surely not Palace again?)

Top Shop staff car park, Cheshire Oaks Outlet Village: Luton Town 11-1 Liverpool (Owen, Gerrard, McManaman debuts).

[Moderator: please edit to make this funny].

does not seem to give any info beyond finalists. I suppose I am missing out on some better source.

I think we're deteriorating fast. Someone say something about plucky Accrington, quick like.

1. F Lampard: "I read in the paper this week that they've been working on getting the ball forward quickly and getting it up to the frontman, who was really good in the air. That was obviously their game plan and it worked. We weren't really ready for that".

(And he's talking about Watford, for goodness' sake.)

2. R Abramovich: "Chivu will come to England only for Chelsea and he will be my golden boy. We want him and we need him".

3. Andy Hessenthaler of Gillingham: "Afterwards I've gone through every single player and talked about the game. And I said to Bossu, 'I can't praise you enough' and he bursts into tears".

Goalkeeper Bossu: "It wasn't tears, but I was really emotional".

4. "The FA Cup is what dreams are all about" - Telford's Lee Mills sparks crisis in the international instution of psychoanalysis as a century-old theory of dream interpretation comes under teatime fire at Crewe.

The flying winger adds: "if we can hold our own against a club like Colchester, why can't we follow Yeovil and Doncaster?".

A Palace fan was stabbed? By... Eric Cantona? From 50 yards?

I fancy Ipswich to do well if they can beat Sunderland.

But then, Lineker ought to enjoy it.

Yay!
I.e., I hope I'ch can't do that.

What does this mean for Everton-Fulham? Moved to Sunday? Saturday lunchtime k/o? Two clubs from the same city can't play at home at (approx) the same time, can they? Policing issues. It wasn't a problem 20-odd years ago, mind: I saw EFC beat Wrexham 5-2 in the 5th round as, across the park, two late Fairclough goals accounted for Bury. Then we all sat in Stanley Park and sang "Merseyside, Merseyside" until the bizzies sent us home.

FUCK YOU!

And fuck Dean Richards.
And fuck Anthony Gardner.
And most of all, fuck David "oh, we are 3-1 up against an attacking, resurgent Man City side, lets take off Christian Ziege and replace him with another attacking midfielder" Pleat.

With knives. And skewers. Red hot ones. Typical fucking Tottenham.

reminiscent of the last time Spurs went 3-0 up against a team from Manchester certainly...my sympathies

I was in The Crown. Oh, Pinefox, where were art thou in my hour of need?

I am touched by Matt DC's post.

Anyway, yeah, I had this weird feeling when I noticed that Spurs were 3-0 up on ceefax, like everything was going to fall apart. *sigh*, didn't know whether to laugh or cry, still don't.

[ducks]

latest word Harry will unleash the pace and the power of Lua Lua and The Yak and we will crush Spurs at White Hart Lane.

Midfield: the guvenor Amdy Faye will control things, and Berko and Smertin will have the skill to feed the strikers.

Who he? (you mean Balde?). If you get him, and you won't, the only player he is guaranteed to bring with him is his pet monkey Neil Lennon.

Obviously this could all be complete bullshit.