More to follow. FA Cup Third Round: Crystal Palace v Stoke Brighton v Newcastle Tottenham v Coventry City Wigan v Bournemouth Fulham v Blackpool Aston Villa v Ipswich Charlton v Huddersfield Barrow or Macclesfield v Cardiff Barnsley v Burnley Manchester City v Watford Swansea v Arsenal Leicester v Burton Millwall v Preston Cheltenham or Hereford v Everton Derby v Tranmere Crawley v Reading Aldershot v Rotherham or Notts County Middlesbrough v Harrogate or Hastings Accrington Stanley or Oxford v Sheffield United Southampton v Chelsea QPR v West Brom Peterborough v Norwich Lincoln or Mansfield v Liverpool Bolton v Sunderland Nottingham Forest v Oldham West Ham v Manchester United Hull v Alfreton or Leyton Orient Blackburn v Bristol City Leeds v Birmingham Bury or Southend v Bradford or Brentford Luton v Wolves Sheffield Wednesday v MK Dons so what can we say; Arsenal to be dumped out and finish yet another season trophyless yup i think thats safe. Utd to bribe their way past west ham... you betcha! can't wait to see how much gum is chewed and spat that day... fat sam having a coronary is highly likely after webb or clattenburg give utd two dodgy pens and still ferguson is out o nthe touchline hammering his watch face to ge tthe game ended early. LFC to play kids and scrape through luckily... after a replay. Rafa to rest 90% of the chelsea team and be roundly booed by the ski's even if he does scrape through "cos he doesn't understand the passion of the cup" newcastle to sack pardew and pay him 8 years of wages...
Allardyce has already broken his record for rolling over for Man Utd with an impressive 32 seconds. Even when the interviewer set him up with the standard softball of "you must feel you deserved something from that game" he was reluctant to suggest Ferguson didn't deserve all the points. So history suggests Man Utd will play some reserves and West Ham will play some under 9s.
I see the FA have shown their usual favouritism to Liverpool the only Prem club to get drawn against non-league opposition, will laugh if you **** it up though.