Dancing in the streets of Curzon Ashton: The FA Cup, 2008

Blyth! Curzon Ashton! Histon! Leiston! Telford!

The world's greatest cup competition is back, back, back!

I'm disappointed to see Harlow lost to Macclesfield, but relieved I didn't bother to go to the match.

The world's greatest cup competition is back, back, back!

What's up with the ILX formatting? Apostrophes in the first post seen to change to nonsense.

A bug that only affects Internet Explorer, I think.

Dunno where to put this, but it appears that there's a team in the Welsh Cup this season called "Techno Welshpool".

Think "techno" is Welsh for "shithole" or something.

Woah. Curzon Ashton is my home team, felt very weird to see it appear in a thread title for some reason.

Yup - Technogroup Welshpool, formerly Welshpool Town. The Welsh are terrible men for remaining their teams after sponsors.

renaming, even.

Curzon bowed out to Kidderminster, but we got new heroes - Unibond Premier side Eastwood Town became only the third side to defeat League Two leaders Wycombe Wanderers this season, 2-0, and they're through to round three. Only other shock thus far saw Forest Green take out Rochdale 2-0, though Droylsden were leading Chesterfield at half-time when the match was abandonded due to fog, and Blyth Spartans are holding out against Bournemouth at the moment.

Portsmouth v Bristol City
Sheffield Wed v Fulham
Preston v Liverpool
Birmingham v Wolves
West Ham v Barnsley
Middlesbrough v Barrow
Hull City v Newcastle
Hartlepool v Stoke
Chelsea v Southend
Manchester City v Nottingham Forest
Cardiff v Reading
Ipswich v Chesterfield or Droylesden
Charlton v Norwich
West Brom v Peterborough or Tranmere
Torquay v Blackpool
Leyton Orient v Sheffield United
Southampton v Manchester United
Millwall v Carlisle or Crewe
Histon v Swansea
Forest Green Rovers v Derby
QPR v Burnley
Leicester v Crystal Palace
Tottenham v Wigan
Morecambe or Cheltenham v Doncaster
Arsenal v Plymouth
Notts County or Kettering v Eastwood Town
Bournemouth or Blyth v Blackburn
Macclesfield v Everton
Watford v Scunthorpe
Sunderland v Bolton
Coventry v Kidderminster
Gillingham or Stockport v Aston Villa

I'm calling that quite tasty.

Histon disposed of Leeds 1-0, btw.

Histon disposed of Leeds 1-0, btw.

:-)

Barrow to nick a 1-0 win at the Riverside, then? Southampton will get to take Man United back to Old Trafford as well. And Barnsley beating the Hammers looks a good bet as well.

Southampton will get to take Man United back to Old Trafford as well.

Don't go putting the mortgage on that, now.

I can see Brizzle Siddy taking out Pompey. The way the Brom are playing at the moment, Peterborough or Tranmere could take them. And Stoke away at Atletico Stelling could very easily be an upset.

I'll stick my neck out and say upset of the round will be Kidderminster over Cov.

Barrow to nick a 1-0 win at the Riverside, then?
That would be nice, but I imagine 'Boro will play only half a reserve side, in which case we'll probably restrict them to four or five rather than nine or ten.

I could see Kiddy doing Cov too. Pity about the draw for Eastwood. Kettering to beat Notts County in the replay, and I can't really see Eastwood progressing any further to meet the huge team they'd like.

Anyone got any idea why the Droylsden-Chesterfield tie looks to have been abandoned again?

Floodlight failure. This was the replay, following on from a 2-2 draw in the rescheduled original fixture which was initially abandoned due to fog, so they get to meet up for a fourth time at some point in the future.

Blyth have just dumped out Bournemouth... and get to host crisis club Blackburn in round three!

I saw the first leg of that. I must admit I'm a little shocked.

Are there people on ILX that livin aston and droylsden?

sorry ashton.

And so Droylsden won said replay 2-1, which ought to have put the matter to bed and sent them through to face Ipswich in the third round.

But you're a fool if you think it's over...

charlton versus norwich is literally the worst fa cup 3rd round draw ever

and i'm missing it to see hereford united vs. leeds united in the league. that's right. once-titanic leeds. in a league game. at edgar street. this is the only time this fixture will ever happen, probably. wow.

Justice for Chesterfield.

Gillingham defenders Barry Fuller and Garry Richards are suspended, so midfielder Mark Bentley is set to play at centre-back.

Midfielder Nicky Southall will miss out as he is cup-tied.

:(

Nicky Southall, scorer of one of the great cup-upset goals of recent years, a 30-yard stunner against then-Premiership Wednesday

(I have a fairly aspie-honed memory for these things)

yeah no-one remembers 30 yard cup upset goals.

Here we go kids.

Midlands derby called off, as have Cheltenham v Doncaster and Histon/Swindon.

Looking at the Stoke line-up, they appear to be 4-5-1. And the 1 is Vincent Pericard, with Dave Kitson on the bench. Hartlepool might well have a shot here...

Dave Kitson man... nobody fell off harder after ILx approval since Basement Jaxx.

I hope Hartlepool give the Premiership fancy dans a good kicking, show them what it's like in the lower leagues.

charlton versus norwich is literally the worst fa cup 3rd round draw ever

and i'm missing it to see hereford united vs. leeds united in the league. that's right. once-titanic leeds. in a league game. at edgar street. this is the only time this fixture will ever happen, probably. wow.

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really wanna damage things, primarily the referee who saw fit to heed a bit of frost, and the idiots who made the game all-ticket thus leaving us with vain expenditure

lol Dom :-/ poor guy, whiteboard story for all-time

Was in the Midlands yesterday so I knew it was cold but can't see how St Andrews being frozen would affect Birmingham's style of play or postpone the meaningless formality of a cup tie neither side really gives a fuck about.

And apparently Orient-Stoke has also been frozen off.

Orient-Sheffield United, rather. Cripes. is it really that nippy all over the south?

-4 in London

Big jessies, the lot of you :-)

It looks quite nice outside, I was going to go for a walk. Should I not bother?

I just went out to get a lightbulb and some horseradish, and I didn't feel cold at all. Maybe the meteorologists are lying?

This said, though, you'd think most of these places would have undersoil heating - maybe not Edgar Street and Glassworld Stadium, perhaps, but Orient and Cheltenham have been League sides for a while, and as for St Andrew's... dear dear.

Atletico Stelling 1 Old Grey Whistle Theft 0!

Full list of cancelled games at http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7809492.stm

2-0 to the "Monkey Hangers"

Just think what they'd do to Arsenal

Forest Green bringin it

lol derby

Hughes out

Whoah Hughes out, and OUT!

City should probably table a £9million bid for Robert Earnshaw, just to shore up the attack.

http://www.evertonpoland.com/img/three_nil.jpg

Captain's innings.

2 captains' inningses.

PHIL COOL

CHEAT

ban shots of topless scallies

well done Everton

It'll be a long drive back to Sussex for the losing fans.

GET IN

Mrs Vague going a bit mental here.

WHERE'S YER QUINTUPLE GONE?

Congrats Michael.

Congratulations to Everton and all their supporters on a tremendous achievement.

srsly berbatov is a hero

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45679000/jpg/_45679713_fergie466getty.jpg

there's someone missing

http://www.blogwaybaby.com/uploaded_images/WestSideStory-719190.jpg

Stay cool, Dimi.

http://asapblogs.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/11/nick_611_2.jpg

do i smell photoshoppery and russians

oh wait, that's what blueski was intimating

some magnificent picture posts!

I didn't know who I wanted to win, because I don't want Chelsea to win the final; but by the time of the PENNOS I decided it was Everton. I remembered my deep hatred of disgusting Ferdinand, and my hatred of the vile things "Fergie" has said this week, and I was glad to see them beaten.

im happy that stuart murdoch's team's won and i hope they win the cup

Paul Draper of Mansun is also a big Everton fan fwiw

best semi-finals ever remain

APRIL 1990

MARCH 1880 for me. Lack of forethought led to only three teams reaching the semi-finals, so Clapham Rovers got a bye into the final. The semis consisted of Forest losing 1-0 to Oxford University

"Arrogance is one thing. You cannot forgive contempt."

"The game is hard enough without a fellow manager making an undermining gesture."

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45680000/jpg/_45680073_ferguson.jpg

"ah needeh puhss leyt meh uff"
"nyooo"

The delight of Liverpool fans at this result has really taken the shine off it for me.

Joking.

Sort of.

I think half of it is the whole Slur alex going into meltdown and half the good feelings generated by the solidarity after the 20 year anniversary. Opinion seems more anti-Everton for the final.......but that would mean Mongo lifting another trophy.....

http://c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000oxdn5gC930s/t/200
Nice display of solidarity from the Huyton Blues.

Does ANYONE, except Chelsea fans, want to see a Chelsea Cup win? It's the most offensively boring and boringly offensive idea since Paul Davis made a cup of tea for Perry Groves.

haha I was delighted at this result, as was practically everyone I know, and I was wondering this morning what Michael would think about Everton being a vehicle for the joy of Liverpool fans.

berbatov's penalty is the moment of the season.

i'd have him back in an instant btw, and i don't care what type of slapper that makes me.

http://www.fansfc.com/UploadedImages/Players/berbatov_633570897166093750.jpg

Spurs may as well give it a go. Yous made a few quid from loaning out Defoe and Keane. I can't see Berbatov costing more than £15M for the return journey, if he can be arsed moving.

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Just out of shot: TR

buying keane back for so much was a dumb move, i'm sure we could have got him back for <10m

i think we paid more for defoe again!

how gutted would defoe be though?

i think it may be r-----s, actually

I thought you had a 25% sell on clause for Defoe that meant you effectively got money off of what the published "price" was.

so:

bought him for 7m

sold him for 9m

bought him back for 12m

received 3m of that back

talk about putting money in his pocket though, what's he getting of the fee each time? 10%

that's 4m in signing on fees. don't want to think about robbie's at this stage.

and to think he could have stayed at charlton

lol bent defoe strike force as if

I don't want Berbatov back. I never thought he was as good as Keane. I sympathize with him, though, as a Bulgarian.

as good at what? football?

I sympathize with him, though, as a Bulgarian.

truly he is a stranger in a strange land

i'm bulgarian btw

we are all bulgarians.

we are all beautiful, with sly eyes like devil