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07/08 FA Cup Quarter Final Draw – Manchester United and Chelsea for the final?

By Ahmed Bilal on February 18th, 2008.

We’re down to the last four games of the FA Cup and with smart money on Manchester United or Chelsea to win the Cup. While a United-Chelsea final still possible after they were drawn apart in the quarter-finals, fans would be hoping to avoid a repeat of last season’s tactical deadlock that was decided on…

FA Cup 5th Round: Last-minute luck for Portsmouth

By Eddie Griffin on February 18th, 2008.

See, I knew I shouldn’t have said anything about consecutive replay-less rounds. There were only two FA Cup fifth-round ties to be played on Sunday, and one of them just had to go to a replay. Sunday’s ties offered up the opportunity for two struggling Championship sides to get a big boost at the expense…

Transfer Roundup: Manchester City, Portsmouth, Middlesbrough, Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham, Everton, Newcastle, Wigan, Bolton, Derby, Fulham, Celtic, Werder Bremen, Hamburg SV, Hertha Berlin, Osasuna, Lazio, Brescia

By Eddie Griffin on February 1st, 2008.

There was, as expected, plenty of deadline-day craziness, and while there are several deals to report, I’ll start by talking about the deal that didn’t happen, and one that did, at the same time. With Manchester City coming in for Benjani, Portsmouth went about looking for a replacement, and found one in Tottenham’s Jermain Defoe….

Manchester City’s season, unlike their balloons, may well have just gone Pop

By Neil Jones on January 30th, 2008.

It wasn’t a good day to be a Manchester City player. They were comprehensively outfought by a Sheffield United side that last week were comprehensively outfought by a Sheffield Wednesday side deep in relegation trouble. To add insult to injury, they returned from their humbling to find their dressing room had been raided by the…

FA Cup Fifth Round Draw: Manchester United to face Arsenal as Liverpool and Chelsea get off easy

By Eddie Griffin on January 29th, 2008.

There is going to be only one all-Premiership tie in the fifth round of the FA Cup, but they certainly pulled out a good one. Manchester United and Arsenal are battling it out for the Premier League crown, and in a few weeks, one is going to knock the other out of the FA Cup,…

FA Cup Roundup: Manchester City’s cup hopes get slashed by Blades, Ronaldo helps Manchester United see off Tottenham, and Bluebirds give Hereford the blues

By Eddie Griffin on January 28th, 2008.

Premier League sides have been dropping like flies in the last couple of rounds of the FA Cup, and two more fell on Sunday.

Transfer Roundup: Manchester United, Tottenham, Juventus, Aston Villa, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Fulham, Bolton, Sheffield United, Flamengo, Rangers, Celtic, Bayern Munich

By Eddie Griffin on January 18th, 2008.

It’s Friday, so I know that you who are reading Soccerlens at work, you can’t wait to skate through the rest of your day and get home for the weekend, but that doesn’t mean you can do the same with the transfer roundup, because if you click, you read to the bottom – no return…

FA Cup 4th Round Draw: Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool expect easy passage

By Eddie Griffin on January 15th, 2008.

While there aren’t any jaw-dropping ties in the fourth round of the FA Cup, there are definitely a few ties worth watching. However, we don’t know who we’ll be watching in many of the ties, as there are still 12 places yet to be decided by replays that will take place over the next two…

FA Cup 3rd Round Draw – 2007/2008

By Subhankar Mondal on December 3rd, 2007.

FA Cup 3rd Round Draw – 2007/2008 It seems that they are destined for each other, rather to play against each other. The draw for the English FA Cup was made on Sunday and an almost inevitable pairing was announced. Manchester United and Aston Villa have locked horns in the FA Cup three times in…