FA CUP 2017/18

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Full FA Cup first-round draw:

Stevenage v Nantwich Town/Kettering Town

Bradford City v Chesterfield

Port Vale v Oxford United

Newport County v Walsall

Morecambe v Hartlepool United

Yeovil Town v Southend United

Peterborough United v Tranmere Rovers

Cambridge United v Sutton United

Forest Green Rovers v Macclesfield Town

AFC Fylde v Kidderminster Harriers

Luton Town v Portsmouth

Shrewsbury Town v Aldershot Town

Hereford v AFC Telford United

Guiseley v Accrington Stanley

Blackburn Rovers v Barnet

East Thurrock United/Ebbsfleet United v Doncaster Rovers

Leatherhead v Brackley Town/Billericay Town

Boreham Wood v Blackpool

Shaw Lane v Mansfield Town

Colchester United v Oxford City

Plymouth Argyle v Grimsby Town

AFC Wimbledon v Lincoln City

Rochdale v Dover Athletic/Bromley

Coventry City v Maidenhead United

Chorley/Boston United v Fleetwood Town

Carlisle United v Oldham Athletic

Notts County v Bristol Rovers

Dartford v Swindon Town

Cheltenham Town v Maidstone United/Enfield Town

Woking/Concord Rangers v Bury

Crewe Alexandra v Rotherham United

Gillingham v Dagenham & Redbridge/Leyton Orient

Hyde United v Milton Keynes Dons

Gainsborough Trinity v Slough Town

Solihull/Ossett Town v Wycombe Wanderers

Northampton Town v Scunthorpe United

Charlton Athletic v Truro City

Wigan Athletic v Crawley Town

Gateshead v Bath City/Chelmsford City

Exeter City v Heybridge Swifts

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FA Cup third-round draw:

Ipswich v Sheffield United

Watford v Bristol City

Birmingham v Burton

Liverpool v Everton

Brighton v Crystal Palace

Aston Villa v Woking or Peterborough

Bournemouth v AFC Fylde or Wigan

Coventry v Stoke

Newport v Leeds

Bolton v Huddersfield

Port Vale or Yeovil v Bradford

Nottingham Forest v Arsenal

Brentford v Notts County

QPR v MK Dons

Manchester United v Derby

Forest Green or Exeter v West Brom

Doncaster v Slough Town or Rochdale

Tottenham v AFC Wimbledon

Middlesbrough v Sunderland

Fleetwood or Hereford v Leicester

Blackburn or Crewe v Hull

Cardiff v Mansfield

Manchester City v Burnley

Shrewsbury v West Ham

Wolves v Swansea

Stevenage v Reading

Newcastle v Luton

Millwall v Barnsley

Fulham v Southampton

Wycombe v Preston

Norwich v Chelsea

Gillingham or Carlisle v Sheffield Wednesday

Ties to be played January 5-7

Brings back horrible memories of about 40 yrs ago ...... Newcastle played as bad as I can remember, lost 2 zip to Luton, and then I managed to miss my train back to London ...... eventually got home at about 6am the next morning

[Brian Davis]

It does seem a crazy decision to have the Brighton v Palace cup game on a Monday night, particularly after recent problems in the league game. What is it? - tv money, Brighton wanting to restrict the away support. Seems anything than putting well-behaved fans first. The police did not cover themselves in glory either. From the Guardian newspaper:-

Crystal Palace have expressed dismay at the decision to play their FA Cup third-round tie at Brighton & Hove Albion on a Monday evening, and frustration that their allocation of tickets will again be dramatically reduced for the derby fixture.

A safety advisory group, comprising representatives from Albion, Sussex police, other emergency services, transport providers and other partners had sought a lunchtime kick-off, only for planned engineering works on the Brighton mainline to prompt them to opt for Monday evening. Although that has allowed BT Sport to televise the game, Palace have insisted they could have provided their fans with free coach travel to negate the impact of the rail issues.

The south London club expressed concerns upon the publication of the Premier League fixtures over the plan to play the clubs’ first derby in more than four years on a Tuesday night. There were flashpoints outside the Amex Stadium last week as away supporters – some, according to Brighton and Sussex police, without tickets – attempted to gain entry, causing the gates to be closed with up to 300 fans locked out and eventually marched back to Falmer station and on to trains to London.

“We’re surprised and disappointed that our FA Cup match against Brighton has been scheduled for a Monday evening,” said Palace in a statement on Friday. “We raised concerns about playing the league match between the two clubs at night, as there have been previous issues when we played evening games in the Championship, but felt we were presented with a no-option scenario. Given the events that occurred, we assumed that this time what we considered to be good sense would prevail and the game would be scheduled as an early daytime kick-off.

“We are also disappointed that our ticket allocation for the FA Cup match has again been restricted to 2,000 when we should be entitled to more than 4,600 tickets under normal FA Cup rules. We completely understand the security concerns around this match and the safety of all supporters must be paramount. It’s for that very reason that we felt the best and most obvious solution, as is the case with most other big, highly charged derby games, would have been a lunchtime kick-off, combined with a bigger ticket allocation to cater for the overwhelming demand from our supporters, many of whom will again be left disappointed.

“We were told that the incidents which took place at last month’s league match were caused, in part, by fans with tickets colluding with un-ticketed fans to force entry into the stadium. While we understand there are issues with trains on the Sunday of the FA Cup third-round weekend we have offered to provide free coaches to negate this issue, also allowing supporters to be dropped and picked up from designated drop-off and pick-up points.

“We strongly believe that the very small minority who misbehave and create disorder should be punished to the full extent of the law, thereby deterring others. Instead, it’s our view that the many decent and law-abiding supporters are being punished by being deprived of the opportunity to enjoy supporting their team.”

Sussex police, who apologised on Thursday for initially suggesting away fans had attempted to enter the ground with “knives and knuckledusters”, were the subject of a second Freedom of Information request from the Palace fanzine Five Year Plan on Friday as the group seek to ascertain whether ticketless supporters had, indeed, attempted to gain entry into the stadium at last week’s fixture.

The police referred back to its meetings with the safety advisory group “that guides such decisions throughout the season” when determining the kick-off time. “The preference for this fixture was a lunchtime kick-off over the weekend, but planned rail engineering works on the Brighton mainline would affect travel and prevent Palace fans from taking advantage of the special train service, which worked well before and helps with the smooth access and egress of supporters to and from the stadium,” said a spokesman.

“With regard to the ticket allocation, this again was a decision made with the support of the safety advisory group. The timing of the match has created an opportunity for TV coverage, which means fans unable to obtain tickets will be still be able to see the game live on television. We are now working with everyone involved to focus on a safe and enjoyable match for everybody attending.”

[stattointhailand]

Palace should lay on Big screens at Sehurst Park with free entry for the fans.

They should then return the paltry 2000 tickets to Brighton 10 mins before KO so as they have no chance to cancel their security or re sell the tickets, thus leaving a big hole where the away fans should be, for everyone to see on worldwide TV. That would then force the commentators to tell their viewers why there were no palace fans at the game

[Brian Davis]

Palace did have screens at Selhurst for the league game, charged something I believe. But all fans would say there's nothing like 'being there'.
Palace probably won't win the FA Cup and there'll be enough glory this season in just avoiding relegation. Just forfeiting the game, although there'd be a fine attached to that, would make a big enough statement to those running the game to put fans first.

[BobHelm]

Replays....

[valiant]

Two men sent off lost 3-2 to Yeovil after extra time PVFC

[BobHelm]

The Exeter against Rovers match also saw extra time & a man sent off for each side. The goal apiece in normal time were both from penalties - neither resulting in a sending off.
A bit of an incident filled game
But I think both Rovers & Vale need to concentrate on their League status rather than have gone chasing Cup glory!!

[Zidane]

Thai TV Channel 7 have confirmed they will be showing the following Round 3 matches this weekend.....

Liverpool v Everton.......always very tense on the forum when these two teams meet
Norwich v Chelsea
Nottingham Forest v Arsenal
Brighton & Hove Albion v Crystal Palace....playing Monday night in the UK,so will be early Tuesday morning over here.

[BobHelm]

The Cup is the main attraction this weekend..
Two interesting clashes tonight - well Saturday morning in Thailand..

Friday 5th January
Liverpool 19:55 Everton
Manchester United 20:00 Derby County

A host on Saturday, including a couple of early games that both look worth a view..

Saturday 6th January
Fleetwood Town 12:45 Leicester City
Middlesbrough 13:00 Sunderland

and an early Sunday one as well..

Sunday 7th January
Newport County AFC 12:00 Leeds United

[Boot]

I always look forward to 3rd round FA Cup day. Hoping the little guys can put one over the big boys.

[stattointhailand]

Don't forget BVAR gets used for the first time during the 3rd round

[stattointhailand]

Going to give the ref and lino's a striped shirt and baseball cap each for the 4th round, together with a tea towel that they can run onto the pitch and throw on the ground

[TAXIfor7/11]

just incase the electric went off in nong khai L I V E R P O O L 2-1 everton , van Dijk debut goal kop end,rose like salmon,how many sticks of chewing gum does fat sam go through in a game?

[TAXIfor7/11]

im sure there will be a few comments about liverpools penalty tonight,but heres a comment from allardyce after evertons eqaliser at anfield Sun 10th 14:15 =“Yes, I've had a look at it on the laptop,” Allardyce said, when asked if he thought it was a penalty.

“Don't put your hands on a forward when he's in the box, don't mess with him, don't touch him, don't push him.

“If you do you run the risk of giving a penalty away, he had no need to do it, he could've stood up, shepherded him away from goal which is where he was going and he didn't he put his hands on him, pushed him over and people can call it soft but you don't do those sort of things in the box today, as we know. LOL AIN,T KARMA A BITCH

[Zidane]

Liverpool 2 Everton 1
Manchester United 2 Derby 0

Virgil Van Dijk's 84th minute header,on his debut,proved to be the winner in the Merseyside derby.Milner put Liverpool ahead in the 35th minute with a penalty after Holgate manhandled Lallana.Maybe a bit of a soft penalty but Holgate was daft for holding onto Lallana.Holgate may be in bigger trouble with the FA for pushing Firmino over an advertising hoarding later in the game which sparked an angry exchange.Sigurdsson equalized for Everton midway through the second half but it proved not to be enough.
Rooney was booked in the first 10 minutes and maybe a tad lucky still to be on the pitch before he was substituted early in the second half.
Everton did play a lot better than they did at Anfield a few weeks ago but they are still crying out for a class striker.

Two late goals from Lingard and Lukaku was enough to see off a spirited Derby side at Old Trafford.

[747man]

Everton did play a lot better than they did at Anfield a few weeks ago but they are still crying out for a class striker.
But......It was Never a Penalty....NOT In a Million Years.....Soft or Not !!!

We've Now Got One....

Signed Cenk Tosun from Besiktas for 27 Million,So Lets see how he Pans out,Looks Very Good on Youtube Though...

[stattointhailand]

Hope for Everton's sake they can edit all the cr*p out like they do on you tube

Certainly looks as if he's the TYPE of player that will thrive in Prem, although saying that so did Mitro when the toon signed him, and he never ever gets on as a sub now.

[747man]

Inside a modern 18-yard box, the gentlest of embraces is sufficient to see strong, beautifully balanced athletes collapse to the floor like puppets with their strings cut.

After Liverpool’s gripes about Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s tumble last month, this time Liverpool were the beneficiaries of the modern “entitlement” to go down.

This from The Liverpool " Red Echo " Re; Last Nights Dubious Penalty awarded to Liverpool...

[TAXIfor7/11]

Inside a modern 18-yard box, the gentlest of embraces is sufficient to see strong, beautifully balanced athletes collapse to the floor like puppets with their strings cut.

After Liverpool’s gripes about Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s tumble last month, this time Liverpool were the beneficiaries of the modern “entitlement” to go down.

This from The Liverpool " Red Echo " Re; Last Nights Dubious Penalty awarded to Liverpool...

so its evened itself out then let it go ,you lost,its finished,move on,