Has to be a winner today, so extra time and penalties are in play. Don't know what to think about this one, especially in light of the gaffer's bizarre comments in this article in The Guardian - they do not exactly inspire confidence. After all his time in England, he still doesn't get the FA Cup. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/mar/16/fa-cup-tottenham-mauricio-pochettino-culture
I now think Spurs will win easily. I've seen him do that before, downplay the importance of a match in the days before and then come out and woop the opponent.
Wake up to find Spurs not down a goal to a lesser opponent in a domestic cup game? What devliery is this?
very comfortable win. other than the double save at the start of the 2nd half, Swansea posed no threat
I like it when I wake up after a night shift and find Spurs have spanked someone. Spurs are on their way to Wembley....
No-nonsense performance today and could easily have been more. Funny how the lower league teams had a go at us and caused problems, while the PL team just rolled over and had their tummies tickled. They looked like a team that was more concerned about the league, but I ain't complainin'. Spurs support were great again, didn't hear any Hymns and Arias today...
We've drawn United in the next round. Seems fitting as their supporters have already been circling the wagons about how it's unfair that Wembley isn't a neutral ground.
How can it be unfair, when Spurs have a Wembley jinx? If anything, it will favor them. Not until we win the whole thing.
Strange drawing United and thinking “no big deal”. Caveat of course being if the team performs under pressure, which to date has been a glaring omission under Pochettino. Spurs have elevated their play to the point where facing any team in the Premiere League isn’t an automatic loss, but whether it’s a league match to keep apace with the leaders or a cup quarter/semi final the historically “big” teams have always managed to get the better of Spurs. I’d love for Tottenham to open the new WHL, but more importantly will be beating a couple of “big” teams when it really mattered.
Here is the playbook for the United supporters. 1. If United win - give us stick for being bottlers and brag about their big game pedigree. 2. If United lose - complain that the match was at Wembley and that the FA Cup is not an important competition for them, prefer to win the PL and the the CL, etc.
fair enough. my perspective is: 1. if United win - they're a bunch of c*nts 2. if United lose - they're a bunch of c*nts ... so I guess we each want it both ways.
Well United fans can ******** right off, they’ve been drawn the home side for the game. No excuses now. http://www.espn.com/soccer/manchest...hester-united-at-wembley-for-fa-cup-semifinal
Don't really understand what all the fuss is about, it is a neutral site so both sets of supporters will get the same ticket allocation. It won't be like in the league where the away side is limited to 3,000 tickets. If you go back to my posts from earlier in the season when everyone was moaning about playing at Wembley (the pitch is too big, the stand is too far away, etc.), I had predicted that later in the season, some teams and managers would start complaining that us playing at Wembley is actually an unfair advantage. Here is part of what I posted on August 30th: When they start to string a few wins together at Wembley, you'll start to hear opposing managers saying we have an unfair advantage playing in front of 90,000 people every other week. You will start hearing opposing fans complaining that their ticket allocation is capped at 3,000.
it sounds like what you're talking about there is some kind of advantage in our home fixtures, which, to be fair, I've not heard anyone complain about. what folks are bent out of shape about is that we are playing in 'our home' stadium for an FA Cup semifinal (and perhaps the final), which have a longstanding tradition of being held at neutral venues. we will be in the visitors locker room, and half of the tickets will be allocated to our opponents' fans - so in some important ways this will be nothing like our home games at Wembley. but that doesn't change the fact that we will be playing on the pitch that we have grown quite accustomed to over the last seven or so months. I don't think it much of an advantage - but it's an advantage ... if not over United, than over ourselves had we not played there 20 times (give or take) over the last year. I see why folks are bitching. I might be, too, were I them. it's too late now, of course, but I would've had no problem had the FA stipulated a neutral site in the eventuality of us reaching the semis. somewhere like Newcastle or Cardiff would've done nicely, to my thinking. you'd still have the issue in the final, though (assuming we get there), where the solution wouldn't be so easy. we might well be dealing with it from the other side when Chelsea spend a few years at Wembley during the rebuilding at the Bridge. I'm guessing I won't like it should it come to pass for us. any bitching, however, should be reserved for the FA, who aren't about to sacrifice the revenues of a Wembley fixture. it won't matter a jot if we lose, though ... so i'm hoping there's loads of bitching once it's all over.