FA Cup 3rd Round Draw

Manchester United v Portsmouth

A big money spinner for Pompey !

This is a good one. Anelka seeking revenge on his old club.

Which means we'll probably go down as well, but hey...

Expect Beattie in next England squad, then sudden Ricketts-esque downturn in form and big money transfer to Blackburn fucking Rovers in part exchange deal where we get Craig Short or someone.

They go to Norwich City in the next round. I'm afraid I hope they lose.

This was one of the finest FA Cup 3rd Rounds in years. Remarkable numbers of teams knocking out teams from higher tiers - sometimes almost invisibly, for instance many of us would hardly have realised that Wigan are now, again, a 3rd division team, who have just knocked out Blackburn, who are *2nd in the 2nd division* !

More outstanding results:

Boreham Wood 2-0 Wimbledon: massive win with a goal worthy of a World Cup.

Kidderminster 2-1 Reading: even bigger win, the biggest gulf in league places: non-league vs low in the 2nd division. Kidderminster come from behind with a bundled winner. Possibly the result of the weekend.

Newcastle 0-1 Cambridge United: another contender. PL club going down at home to a 3rd division team who hold up well and take their chance.

Burnley 1-2 Huddersfield: this is also big: a PL fixture team knocked out by a 2nd-tier club.

Hartlepool 2-1 Blackpool: yet another lower-tier win.

Forest 1-0 Arsenal: by far the biggest club to be knocked out. Forest thoroughly deserved it.

But the match of the round was Barnsley 5-4 Barrow: astounding.

The 4th round, by contrast, will not be good. Almost every bigger club has been drawn at home. I don't expect a single upset except that Brighton have a fair chance at Tottenham.

Burnley are in terminal decline and only accrued 34 points in the last calendar year and they got knocked out by the bigger club!

Huddersfield Town have a great history, yes - was glad to see them in the top flight recently and hope they return.

Do you really think that Burnley will be relegated this year?

Funny that you should revive a thread from 19 years ago... I attended one of the 3rd-round ties on the list in the original post! And the only FA Cup tie I've attended since was Wembley 2009.

Burnley looked terrible to me on the 20 minutes of the stream I saw and this against mostly our b-team. They only really opened the scoring because we started with our disaster goalkeeper Schofield who is not good enough for Sunday League. When he starts there is a palpable sense of panic in our back line and his positioning and decision making is consistently bad. When he went off injured everything settled down and when we brought on Sorba the result was never in doubt. Yeah they look doomed alright.

Fingers crossed.

Yes, some pretty good magic of the cup this weekend. Sounded like a great atmosphere at Forest

Spare a thought for those of us still awaiting the grim groundhog day slog of being knocked out in the 3rd round by Man Utd for the 17th time in 18 years tho

I dunno! Its a good time to play United

It was nice to see that 40 year old Wes Hoolahan has still got it this weekend

He's so tidy in possession! An inspiration.

We've got a 50th anniversary Giantkillers party after the game on 5th Feb.

Sgt Biscuits: I hope that Villa can do something at United tonight. It does look a more even tie than it has done in the past, with Stevie G such a strong martinet of a manager and United unpredictable.

The Reds have won all three FA Cup ties they’ve played against Huddersfield Town, the last one a 1-0 First Round win in November 1977, with Neil Warnock scoring the only goal

cursed stats