The FA Cup Fifth Round Proper Saturday 18 February 2006 3pm Winning clubs will receive £120,000 The Draw will be made at Soho Square on Monday 30 January 30 at 1.30pm and it will be covered live on the BBC, Sky Sports and Radio Five Live. You can watch the draw live http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/TheFACup/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2006/01/FACup_FifthRoundNumbers.htm The numbers are in ahead of Monday's FA Cup Fifth Round Draw. 1 Stoke City 2 Newcastle United 3 Coventry City or Middlesbrough 4 Reading or Birmingham City 5 Liverpool 6 Southampton 7 Bolton Wanderers 8 Aston Villa 9 Brentford 10 Manchester City 11 Everton or Chelsea 12 Preston North End or Crystal Palace 13 West Ham United 14 Colchester United 15 Charlton Athletic 16 Manchester United Now 2 v's 9 would be very welcome with me
Which team will be lucky enough to get the No.1 side in the draw. Stoke are the true glamour side of English football.
Funnily enough I follow Stoke as well as Newcastle, went to uni there, that does not say a lot for my level of education or aesthetic preferences however
Ha! Newcastle (along with Spurs) are the team I follow in the Premiership. There seemed to be alot of geordies in Stoke when I lived there.
There seemed to be a lot of, how do I say this, "mentally challenged" folk living there too I had great fun in Stoke however, and some great birds too!!!
Home draw for the Toon, who have not lost in the FA cup at home in something like 3 years or something like that, can't be chewed to look it up. Enjoying the cup this year, it's had everything so far.
Preston/Crystal Palace v Coventry/Middlesbrough Newcastle v Southampton Aston Villa v Manchester City Everton/Chelsea v Colchester Charlton v Brentford Liverpool v Manchester United Bolton v West Ham Stoke v Reading/Birmingham Liverpool and ManU I like the Bolton and WestHam matchup too.
If they can build a time machine and bring Gordon Banks and Stanley Matthews back to the future they have a good chance.