FA Cup Third Round Draw. 8th December, 4pm ish. ITV1.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1 AFC Bournemouth
2 Arsenal
3 Aston Villa
4 Barnsley
5 Birmingham City
6 Blackburn Rovers
7 Blackpool
8 Bolton Wanderers
9 Brighton & Hove Albion
10 Burnley
11 Cardiff City
12 Charlton Athletic
13 Chelsea
14 Crystal Palace
15 Derby County
16 Doncaster Rovers
17 Everton
18 Fulham
19 Huddersfield Town
20 Hull City
21 Ipswich Town
22 Leeds United
23 Leicester City
24 Liverpool
25 Manchester City
26 Manchester United
27 Middlesbrough
28 Millwall
29 Newcastle United
30 Norwich City
31 Nottingham Forest
32 Queens Park Rangers
33 Reading
34 Sheffield Wednesday
35 Southampton
36 Stoke City
37 Sunderland
38 Swansea City
39 Tottenham Hotspur
40 Watford
41 West Bromwich Albion
42 West Ham United
43 Wigan Athletic
44 Yeovil Town
45 Sheffield United
46 Preston North End
47 Port Vale
48 Bristol Rovers or Crawley Town
49 Milton Keynes Dons
50 Carlisle United
51 Macclesfield Town
52 Southend United
53 Oldham Athletic or Mansfield Town
54 Rochdale
55 Peterborough United
56 Hartlepool United or Coventry City
57 Kidderminster Harriers
58 Plymouth Argyle
59 Wrexham or Oxford United
60 Fleetwood Town or Burton Albion
61 Grimsby Town
62 Leyton Orient
63 Bristol City
64 Stevenage


Third Round ties will be played on the weekend of 4th/5th January 2014.

I can't believe Bournemouth have knocked us off our No.1 spot. :(

Anyway, :dance:

[Marc Overmars]

Always a fun draw.

Pub team at home please.

[milla]

Always a fun draw.

Pub team at home please.

Manchester United would do it then. :coffee:

[Ollie the Optimist]

purely selfish reasons but would love to get Bristol City away

[Rors]

3(damn heresy....) v 58 please :scarf:

[Master Splinter]

Chelsea to get the lowest-placed team.

At home.

Villa v United.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Not long to go. :dance:

[Rors]

Villa v United.

I'd take it this time....

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And it's time.

[Rors]

Finally getting started...I think.

[Rors]

The Sheringham Family :wacko:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Barnsley vs Hartlepool or Coventry.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Yeovil vs Leyton Orient. :lol:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Oh no.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Liverpool vs Oldham or Mansfield. :popcorn:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Nottingham Forest vs 'Ammers.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bristol City vs Watford
Southend vs Millwall

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Middlesbrough vs Hull

[McNamara That Ghost...]

WBA vs Palace.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kidderminster vs Peterborough.

I'm not sure I like this.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Doncaster vs Stevenage
Stoke vs Leicester.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Southampton vs Burnley. Rodriguez. :popcorn:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Newcastle vs Cardiff.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Rochdale vs Leeds
Wigan vs MK Dons

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Charlton vs Wrexham or Oxford

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Man Utd vs Swansea. Tasty.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Port Vale vs Plymouth. Boring tie for the Pilgrims.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Norwich vs Fulham

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Villa vs Sheffield United.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Macclesfield vs Sheffield Wednesday
Sunderland vs Carlisle. Matt Smith. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bolton vs Blackpool.
Blackburn vs Man City.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Everton vs QPR.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Brighton vs Reading
Arsenal vs Tottenham! :haha:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

:popcorn:

[Marc Overmars]

Oh FFS. :doh:

[Rors]

:haha:

And Smith is having a mare...

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Birmingham vs Bristol Rovers or Crawley
Grimsby vs Huddersfield
Ipswich vs Preston
Derby vs Chelsea. :rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

AFC Bournemouth vs Fleetwood or Burton Albion. Matt Smith was horrific.

[Master Splinter]

FFS. At least it's at home. But another tough fixture to add to the pile.

I just want a true pub team for once so we can rack up the +1s.

[WMUG]

Missed the NLD in the league this year, so pretty pleased with this :popcorn:

[Marc Overmars]

Are FA Cup games catergorised ad hoc?

If they are then this will obviously be an 'A' game but I was wondering if there was a possibility of it being a 'B' game because of the competition. I'll probably go for £35. Not paying £60+...

edit: Just seen they use A & B pricing. Gah.

[Rors]

Whereas with us it will definitely be a 'Special Category'* Game ( * A crap one). Despite our appalling record against Sheff Utd in this competition, I might well take a toby along.

I fear your game will be 'Second Pick' for the TV companies (the light channel obviously going for United first, they won't want to give up on that particular cow in their final season), meaning it will end up on BTSport..

[milla]

It doesn't matter, all of them will be on live stream anyway. :coffee:

[Rors]

It doesn't matter, all of them will be on live stream anyway. :coffee:

Old-timer that I am, I don't do streams. Or Spyware. There might be a link between the two.

[milla]

Old-timer that I am, I don't do streams. Or Spyware. There might be a link between the two.

Nah, you worry to much. Spyware and antivirus, now that is a similar thing. :coffee:

[Dein-machine]

Always a fun draw.

Pub team at home please.

There you go - just what you wished for

[LDG]

:lol:

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

I think a few of us are interested in going to this game. Maybe one of us can post in here when news about tickets is released, just to let others know. I'd hate to miss out on our annual Spurs drubbing.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

Strongest team for this game....no tinkering with line ups this time

[Injury Time]

Strongest team for this game....no tinkering with line ups this time

Definitely as this is our only distant hope of silver ware this year.

[Syn]

Our superb end of season form recently has mainly been down to only having to play max of one game a week (sometimes getting a two week rest). Just putting that out there.

[Letters]

Dunno. We had 4 games in August - starting on the 17th so it was 2 a week.
6 games in September - there was a 2 week gap between two of those and one of the midweek games was in the CC.
6 games in October - again, 2 week gap between two of them but 2 a week after that. One was the CC but it was the Chelsea game in which we put a pretty strong team out.
6 games in November - another 2 week gap but 2 a week either side.
It's been 2 a week in December so far.

It will ramp up but with the CL qualifiers and group games we've had 24 games in 16 weeks even with the breaks.
And given how many internationals we have the breaks involve a lot of them playing games too.

[Syn]

Well that's been the massive improvement this season; that we've been picking up points even in the busy schedules. But Wenger will be tearing his hair out right now trying to find the balance of picking the shittest players that can go to Napoli and scramble a draw. Meanwhile Man City will be well rested and ready to kill us on the weekend. Fans might be over-worrying on players getting rest but I have little doubt that only playing one game a week in the second half of the season really helped us get our run of wins for 4th.

Don't really know what my point is. Obviously I don't think we should throw the cups; you play the FA cup on weekends anyway. But if we went out and got to concentrate on keeping the first choice players fit and rested to keep battering Stoke at home for the title, I wouldn't be too disappointed. I know I'm in the minority but I wouldn't be disappointed with losing 3-0 to Napoli. I really, really want the league.

[Munchies]

Arsenal vs Tottenham will be a 5.15pm kick off on Saturday 4th January live on ITV 1.
http://www.itv.com/sport/football/article/2013-12-09/watch-arsenal-v-spurs-in-the-fa-cup-third-round-live-on-itv/

[Marc Overmars]

I wouldn't be disappointed with losing 3-0 to Napoli. I really, really want the league.

Wouldn't going into the Europa League would be even worse if you want us to get the optimum rest?

[Syn]

Wouldn't going into the Europa League would be even worse if you want us to get the optimum rest?

Oh yeah, forgot about that.

New plan: lets pub a draw at Napoli.

Edit: newer plan: let's lose and face Bayern in the next round. Quick and painless.

[milla]

Arsenal vs Tottenham will be a 5.15pm kick off on Saturday 4th January live on ITV 1.
http://www.itv.com/sport/football/article/2013-12-09/watch-arsenal-v-spurs-in-the-fa-cup-third-round-live-on-itv/

:popcorn:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Well that's been the massive improvement this season; that we've been picking up points even in the busy schedules. But Wenger will be tearing his hair out right now trying to find the balance of picking the shittest players that can go to Napoli and scramble a draw. Meanwhile Man City will be well rested and ready to kill us on the weekend. Fans might be over-worrying on players getting rest but I have little doubt that only playing one game a week in the second half of the season really helped us get our run of wins for 4th.

Don't really know what my point is. Obviously I don't think we should throw the cups; you play the FA cup on weekends anyway. But if we went out and got to concentrate on keeping the first choice players fit and rested to keep battering Stoke at home for the title, I wouldn't be too disappointed. I know I'm in the minority but I wouldn't be disappointed with losing 3-0 to Napoli. I really, really want the league.

Hmm given it's arguable that the instigator for our great results is the Bayern Munich game I'm not sure if it's great to only have the league to focus on. I always like having those games that can help to give us a win if we get in to the situation where we have a couple of bad results in the league, in a row. I think going out of the Champions League group stage having done so well up to now would come as such a downer to the squad, especially as it'l take a hammering for it to happen.

[Ollie the Optimist]

apparently for this tie the ticket price for spurs fans is £71.04

[Ollie the Optimist]

apparently it is a CAT A game and there will be 9000 scum fans there. jesus, the police are going to have fun trying control that :S

[Rors]

Arsenal vs Tottenham will be a 5.15pm kick off on Saturday 4th January live on ITV 1.
http://www.itv.com/sport/football/article/2013-12-09/watch-arsenal-v-spurs-in-the-fa-cup-third-round-live-on-itv/

First pick? ITV? Not United? Holy mother of geese!!

[milla]

apparently it is a CAT A game and there will be 9000 scum fans there. jesus, the police are going to have fun trying control that :S

:popcorn:

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

Ludicrous

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Tottenham have expressed their disappointment at a reduced allocation for the FA Cup third-round tie at Arsenal on 4 January.


Spurs had applied for the maximum under the competition rules of 15% capacity, which is around 9,000 tickets.


However, following "lengthy conversations" the White Hart Lane club were advised "on safety and security grounds, experienced at previous cup fixtures this season" that only 5,186 seats would be provided, which equates to around 8.64%.

:violin:

[Dein-machine]

Tottenham have expressed their disappointment at a reduced allocation for the FA Cup third-round tie at Arsenal on 4 January.


Spurs had applied for the maximum under the competition rules of 15% capacity, which is around 9,000 tickets.


However, following "lengthy conversations" the White Hart Lane club were advised "on safety and security grounds, experienced at previous cup fixtures this season" that only 5,186 seats would be provided, which equates to around 8.64%.

:violin:

Much better idea - local infrastucture couldn't cope with 9000 fat, bald spuds sneaking out as usual with 10 mins to go.

[Xhaka Can’t]

A late kickoff with a couple of hours extra drinking time should mellow the atmosphere a bit.