Already planning how I'll get to Wembley for the final!!!! Full draw - Ipswich Town v Sheffield United Watford v Bristol City Birmingham City v Burton Albion Liverpool v Everton Brighton & Hove Albion v Crystal Palace Aston Villa v Woking or Peterborough United Bournemouth v AFC Fylde or Wigan Coventry City v Stoke City Newport County v Leeds United Bolton Wanderers v Huddersfield Town Port Vale v Bradford City Nottingham Forest v Arsenal Brentford v Notts County Queens Park Rangers v MK Dons Manchester United v Derby County Forest Green Rovers or Exeter City v West Bromwich Albion Doncaster Rovers v Slough Town or Rochdale Tottenham Hotspur v AFC Wimbledon Middlesbrough v Sunderland Fleetwood or Hereford v Leicester City Blackburn Rovers or Crewe Alexandra v Hull City Cardiff City v Mansfield Town Manchester City v Burnley Shrewsbury Town v West Ham United Wolverhampton Wanderers v Swansea City Stevenage v Reading Newcastle United v Luton Town Millwall v Barnsley Fulham v Southampton Wycombe Wanderers v Preston North End Norwich City v Chelsea Gillingham or Carlisle United v Sheffield Wednesday
Good! We can get back to the business of the League, then. Too bad it's not Man City. After the game Pep could tell our players how they should have played against his team.
I look at it this way - it's going to be SEVERAL years (if ever) we make it back to the PL, so I'll definitely go and see them.
Blimey! What a draw straight from the off! They will f'ing nail up to the floor. But at least this season we can say we went out of one cup to Arsenal, and another to Chelsea. Rather than a Luton and Crawley Town. Like JM says, be a lot of years before we might see the likes of a Premiership side at Carrow Road, so might be worth another trip to the game. Decent draws of Boro Vs Sunderland and Liverpool Vs Everton for some early derby action. Plus Brighton Vs Palace, didn't they just play and there was a build up of some ancient grudge match? Then there was some kind of violence at the game?
I expect Conte will put out a slightly weakened side, as the knockout stages of the Champions League will be just around the corner, I don't think there will be many tickets spare, as under FA Cup rules, we have to give the away side a certain percentage, s I'm just glad I've got membership. Am I right in thinking that Palace V Brighton is almost a 'local derby', as their grounds are only about 40 miles apart??
Historically there has always been a great deal of animosity between Palace & Brighton, hence the crowd trouble at the last game. www.theguardian.com/football/2017/nov/28/brighton-crystal-palace-premier-league-match-report
Lets see if Dannyboy has learnt from the last one? I'm half expecting Tettey amoungst others to have returned by then, been flooged through the Xmas period to pick up injuries in what has to be viewed as a pointless cup game. Alternatively if things haven't improved by Xmas, any notion od promotion will have gone so why not have a go for the cup. Bah!
Not yet, but it's the 5.30 KO and being shown on BT Sport. I'd still like to watch it live IF I can get a ticket!!!!
Typical,another 3pm ko moved to accomodate the arm chair fans. Will give it a miss as I hate evening games.
We could use the extra readies for it being televised, we can buy another 3 suspect quality Germans with that sort of windfall! Bah!
