Match Day Thread Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

Any minnow for draw in the FA Cup fourth round?.

 

Maidstone

Man city

 

Those days are over mate

 

they tried their best with klopp at Shrewsbury and all of that.

it only takes the right tie for the media to start at it.

 

Good draw.

home tie.

Norwich or Bristol Rovers.

line up the kids.

 

two massive ties have come out.

chavs v villa

spurs v City.

we have the romance tie for man utd as well.

those are massive massive clashes for the 4th round of fa cup.

 

Liverpool have a manageable draw I must confess.

 

Decent chance of getting through to quarters unless we fa-cup badly.

 

Has any club ever finished on a negative number of points in any league because of points deducted?

Let's use a completely hypothetical club, Chanmester City, in this completely hypothetical scenario, imagine they face 151 violations and are, for some bizarre reason docked 10 points per violation (rather than straight relegation). It's theoretically possible that they are found guilty of 10 or more of those violations and get over 100 points deducted and finish the season on negative points.

Now, of course 1,510 points of violation is never going to happen... but 20 points would be enough to doom some of the worst teams in top flight history to a negative score and surely somewhere in the world some team has been bad enough (both bad in performance, and bad in misbehaving) to have finished on negative points somewhere.

 

5th round is last 16 not quarters. 6th round is bizarrely called thst amd not qf.

 

I think it's happened. not sure where

 

Middle child versus eldest

 

I was hoping we would get Wigan in the draw.

 

something went badly wrong in their upbringing

 

I think the closest might be Luton, who had a 30 point deduction that relegated them, when there has been a points deduction. They finished with 26pts

Actually 3 other clubs were docked pts that season in L2. Rotherham, Bournemouth and Darlington.

I think in most cases of deductions (in England at least) most clubs have either had enough points or been able to make up as not to finish on 0 or lower.

 

Both wanted to support Man Utd and both literally got kicked out the house, their mother let them back in. Told them they can support whoever they want so long as it's not Man Utd or Chelsea

 

Full fa cup draw.

Watford v Southampton
Blackburn Rovers v Wrexham
Bournemouth v Swansea City
West Brom v Brentford or Wolves
West Ham or Bristol City v Nottingham Forest or Blackpool
Leicester City v Hull City or Birmingham City
Sheffield Wednesday v Coventry City
Chelsea v Aston Villa
Ipswich Town v Maidstone United
Liverpool v Norwich City or Bristol Rovers
Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City
Leeds United v Plymouth Argyle
Crystal Palace or Everton v Luton Town or Bolton Wanderers
Newport County or Eastleigh v Manchester United
Sheffield United v Brighton & Hove Albion
Fulham v Newcastle United

Quite uninspiring with many ties being from the same division.

The man utd away tie and our tie stand out as the romance of the cup alongside Maidstone going to hear about tractors.

 

If we play Norwich we just need to get a few of these and they'll give up and go home.

 

Derby finished on 11 points one year without a points deduction of any kind. Which is lower than Luton above with their 30 point deduction.

I guess being relegate outright (rather than being punished bad enough to end on negative points) is a softer punishment. A points deduction hard enough to end you end in the negative means a minimum of two seasons to get back where you were... As opposed to just one season if you just get relegated.