FA Cup 5/6/7 January 2012

January 5th

Brighton v Newcastle
Aldershot v Rotherham
Aston Villa v Ipswich
Barnsley v Burnley
Blackburn v Bristol City
Bolton v Sunderland
Charlton v Huddersfield
Crawley v Reading
Crystal Palace v Stoke
Derby v Tranmere
Fulham v Blackpool
Hull v Leyton Orient
Leeds v Birmingham
Leicester v Burton Albion
Luton v Wolves
Man City v Watford
Middlesbrough v Hastings
Millwall v Preston
Notts Forest v Oldham
Oxford v Sheff Utd
Peterborough v Norwich
QPR v West Brom
Sheff Wed v MK Dons
Southampton v Chelsea
Southend v Brentford
Tottenham v Coventry
Wigan v Bournemouth
West Ham v Man Utd

January 6th

Swansea v Arsenal
Mansfield v Liverpool

January 7th

Cheltenham v Everton

Middlesbrough v Hastings....sounds like some fucking medieval battle.

The football will most likely be from that time though. Ba Dum Tss!

Need some cup joy as break from league misery. also will be supporting Mansfield though I think the PL teams that will be worried about an upset are more like Newcastle, Stoke, Norwich. And Villa, of course. Please don't lose to Mick McCarthy.

Fey wrote:Middlesbrough v Hastings....sounds like some fucking medieval battle.

The football will most likely be from that time though. Ba Dum Tss!

Brighton 1-0 Newcastle reserves

Sammy or Shola Ameobi sent off.

Shola sent off after barely any contact. Referees in this country are hopeless.

Are Newcastle this not taking serious?

The FA-cup is losing it's prestige fast. They should at least scrap one of the cup tournaments.

Fey wrote:Are Newcastle this not taking serious?

The FA-cup is losing it's prestige fast. They should at least scrap one of the cup tournaments.

They have injuries/ players sold/ Pardew to be fair.

You say the cup has lost its prestige but all the winners recently seem to be big clubs.

They should scrap the carling cup though; it's literally pointless.

I thought Gus Poyet had just gone into the celeb big brother house?

The Magic Of The Cup

We go out early every year to a non-premier league club.

Brighton in the winter eh. Never a good place to go. Still Pardew needs to go.

Newcastle have a hopeless record on the south coast. Portsmouth, southampton, brighton - regularly beaten by the most southern of soft shandies. It's like the opposite of the stereotypical tough trip up north/into the dark ages.

Ba scores two on his debut, wonder how Torres feels

#rafaout

Apparently Ba went over to ask Lampard to take that penalty (and complete his hat trick) , Lampard pointed at his captain armband and told him to go away.

That's why he's known as Fat Frank.

a nice big @ Wolves & Alex McLeish

West Ham: Jaaskelainen, Demel, Collins, Tomkins, Potts, Joe Cole, Collison, Nolan, Vaz Te, Carlton Cole, Diarra. Subs: Spiegel, Reid, Jarvis, Taylor, Noble, Spence, Lee.

Man Utd: De Gea, Smalling, Evans, Vidic, Buttner, Da Silva, Scholes, Cleverley, Kagawa, Hernandez, Welbeck. Subs: Lindegaard, Ferdinand, Valencia, Giggs, Young, van Persie, Macheda.

Referee: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire)

Disco Benny wrote:Apparently Ba went over to ask Lampard to take that penalty (and complete his hat trick) , Lampard pointed at his captain armband and told him to go away.

That's why he's known as Fat Frank.

I remember when Di Canio told Frank to f*ck off against Bradford

6 minutes in and Joe Cole already panting heavily like a tenor trudging up 10 flights of stairs.

Disco Benny wrote:Apparently Ba went over to ask Lampard to take that penalty (and complete his hat trick) , Lampard pointed at his captain armband and told him to go away.

That's why he's known as Fat Frank.

Lampard needed the goal to become the second (tied) highest goal scorer in Cheslea history, i think.

Oh so close.

TM wrote:

Disco Benny wrote:Apparently Ba went over to ask Lampard to take that penalty (and complete his hat trick) , Lampard pointed at his captain armband and told him to go away.

That's why he's known as Fat Frank.

Lampard needed the goal to become the second (tied) highest goal scorer in Cheslea history, i think.

Probably. It's hardly unusual behaviour from a professional footballer, its just amusing how there are certain footballers like Lampard, Ronaldo who are so clearly obsessed with their personal scoring record. What a selfless, welcoming gesture it would have been if he let Ba score a hat trick on his debut.

1-1! Collins from J Cole!

Vidic getting away with it, what a shock.

Say thank you to Liverpool for your present

Luis wrote:Say thank you to Liverpool for your present

For Cole or Carrol?

Would like it if we resign C Cole, he's out of contract in the summer.

Disco Benny wrote:

TM wrote:

Disco Benny wrote:Apparently Ba went over to ask Lampard to take that penalty (and complete his hat trick) , Lampard pointed at his captain armband and told him to go away.

That's why he's known as Fat Frank.

Lampard needed the goal to become the second (tied) highest goal scorer in Cheslea history, i think.

Probably. It's hardly unusual behaviour from a professional footballer, its just amusing how there are certain footballers like Lampard, Ronaldo who are so clearly obsessed with their personal scoring record. What a selfless, welcoming gesture it would have been if he let Ba score a hat trick on his debut.

I agree with you on this part. I remember when Paul Ince moved to Inter Milan it was a big deal because Nicola Berti gave him the number 4 shirt to welcome him to the club. You don't see gestures like that too often any more.

Still, you could accuse Ba of being equally concerned with his own scoring when he asked to take the penalty in the first place. Lampard is the penalty taker at Chelsea, he would know that I'm sure. And knowing Ba's record in the past of being pretty selfish, not wanting to play on the wing, etc. I can hardly feel sorry for him. He was after the headline just as much as Lampard.