Wimbledon - Stoke City Cardiff City - Sheffield United Wycombe/Mansfield - Burnley Crewe - Telford Bristol City/Barnsley - Sheff Wed/Scunthorp Portsmouth - Blackpool Northampton - Rotherham Fulham - Cheltenham Man City - Leicester Southampton - Newcastle Yoevil - Liverpool Birmingham City - Blackburn Nottingham Forest - WBA Watford - Chelsea Kidderminster - Wolves Gillingham - Charlton Swansea - Macclesfield/Cambridge Leeds - Arsenal Spurs - Crystal Palace Aston Villa - Manchester United Southend United - Port Vale/Scarborough Sunderland - Hartlepool Tranmere - Bolton PNE - Reading Wigan - West Ham Middlesbrough - Notts County Ipswich - Derby County Coventry City - Peterborough Everton - Norwich Bournemouth/Acc. Stanley - Colchester United Bradford - Luton Millwall - Walsall
My Predictions [R] Leeds - Arsenal (Come on you Gunners!!!) 2-0 to the Arsenal. Ipswich - Derby County (I love the name and their crest...Ipswich Town!) Hopefully they can advance. Coventry City - Peterborough (Why not, cheer for my best mate's club.....Coventry City!) Spurs - Crystal Palace (Lets go Palace, let's go!)
Um...... Vicarage Road is supposed to be a bit of a bog i see for our game.I hope the prima donnas put in a performance worthy of the shirt there tomorrow. Bloody well better be up for it.
Re: Um...... Yeah, I think Saracens just played a rugby match on the pitch in the past few days so it is rumored to be in its worst condition ever. Should be interesting.
Re: Re: Um...... Just watched sky here on FSW, they showed the pitch, looks very heavy. Crespo is supposed to be fit though and starting. If he starts with Gudjohnson up front i think we'll win.I like hasselbaink, but i do hope he doesn't start in this game as it's the type of pitch where he'll just stand around and mope if the ball isn't put on his foot to shoot. Back line should be fine as those lads have all played in this type of pitch at some time or another, same goes for the middle of the field. It's what their attitude to the hard slog will be if it's still 0-0 at half time or later that will decide who goes through. I just hope Ranieri has stressed that prima donna attitudes will have their arses on the bench. I can remember when we were a struggling second divison (old) side and the current European champ Liverpol came to Stamford bridge for a cup tie. I was drunk for a week I do wonder what a foreign manager thinks about the FA Cup though, never mind the foreign players. Tough game against a jeckyl and hyde team next Wednesday also has to be on his mind. All that being said though, i will be gutted if we lose.
My upset special? Norwich over Everton. Just a hunch I have, and nothing more... The 3rd round has its share of upsets from time to time, and here's hoping that we'll get a few of them this weekend.
Woo upset of the round we beat Walsall Well done to the small teams who got results against bigger clubs (Telford, Accrington Scarborough and yes even you Gillingham).