FA Cup
The glorified half of the domestic cup double and billed as the most prestigious domestic cup competition in football by… the English press. Winning the FA Cup is a matter of great prestige, and while you’ll see some teams fielding weakened sides in the cups, there’s not doubt that once again, for many clubs, this is the only outside chance of silverware. You can also watch the FA Cup live.
Also see: FA Cup Fixtures | FA Cup Statistics.
Soccerlens Podcast – Everton set to shock Manchester United in FA Cup?
On the seventh episode of the Soccerlens Podcast, Stephen Darwin is joined by ITV’s Gary Andrews and Guardian blogger and Manchester United fan Rob Smyth to discuss the latest from the European Champions League and also the FA Cup semi-finals coming up on the weekend. The show will also touch on Ashley Cole and that first-leg suspension, the leading candidates for…
Win TWO tickets to the Chelsea/Arsenal match this weekend!
Football fans love free tickets, simple as that. In the world of sky-high ticket prices, you’d be hard pressed to find anything for a match for face value these days. Considering paying for a big match between two of the best clubs in the world? You might as well give an arm and a leg…
Calling all Chelsea fans – win 2 tickets to the FA Cup semifinal!
There are only FIVE hours left in our FA Cup semifinal giveaway – we’re giving away 2 tickets to Wembley in the Chelsea end for the Chelsea-Arsenal game. If you’re interested, answer a simple question here and you’ll be entered in the draw to win the tickets. This contest is now closed. You can check…
08-09 FA Cup Semifinal Draw – Rigged or Luck?
The FA Cup ‘draw’ is supposed to be fair (your mileage may vary) but there are times when the ties end up looking completely rigged (by man or a God with a sense of humour, that’s for you to decide). And so it is with Manchester United being drawn against Everton, leaving Chelsea to face…
FA Cup 08-09 Quarterfinal Draw: Chelsea, Manchester United and Everton kept apart
The FA Cup 08/09 Quarterfinal draw was held today – a few ties still to be concluded but it’s shaping up to be a cracker of a semi-final round:
The Times‘s 50 Worst Things About Modern Football
Football is one of the greatest things in the world but it’s not perfect. It used to be perfect. Before money and television and the Bosman ruling and Baby Bentleys and roastings and tattoos and takeovers and no standing and agents and prawn sandwiches and rotation. English newspaper The Times takes a stab at the…
FA Cup replays are great, no matter what Fergie, Rafa and Harry think
When it suits him, Sir Alex Ferguson can be quite a student of the FA’s rules and regulations. The brief, and swiftly abandoned, dalliance with rule 11a may not have been as thrilling as his tango with Dimitar Berbatov in the summer, but it does have wider-reaching implications. Rule 11a sounds innocuous enough. It allows…
Manchester United 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur – F.A. Cup – 24 January 2009 – Live Blog
The article below refers to a previous United-Tottenham game. To watch the latest United-Tottenham game, click here. Manchester United (Scholes 35′, Berbatov 36′) 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Pavlyuchenko 5′) Stadium: Old Trafford, England Competition: F.A. Cup, Fourth Round Date: 24 January 2009 Kickoff: 17:15 GMT, 12:15 ET Manchester United eliminated Tottenham, 2-1, in their Fourth Round…
Dear football, we love each other so don’t make me divorce you
Football, in recent years, has hardly been the sanest of sports but even by recent standards Manchester City’s £100m bid for Kaka has seen the sport reach new levels of absurdity, even if the player himself eventually rejected the offer. But this isn’t just about paying a man half a million a week to kick…
FA Cup fourth round draw
The fourth-round ties will be played over the weekend of 23/24/25 January: Liverpool v Everton Manchester United v Tottenham Hull or Newcastle v Millwall or Crewe Sunderland v Blyth or Blackburn Hartlepool v West Ham Leyton Orient or Sheffield United v Charlton or Norwich Cardiff v Arsenal Portsmouth or Bristol City v Histon or Swansea…
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