FA Cup 2025

[Niall_Quinn]

Fernendes can do no wrong according to Shearer - even when he boots it off the pitch. It's always somebody elses fault for not getting on the end of his misplaced passes. I think this is how a lot of PL reputations are built.

[Niall_Quinn]

Unbelievably poor by Sessegnon. It really is.

[Niall_Quinn]

Shearer gives MOTM to Fernandes. Well there's a shocker. Dinner and who knows what afterwards.

[Niall_Quinn]

Oh my God! Last minute FK to Fulham and William just boots it to the keeper.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pelanties it is.

[Niall_Quinn]

FT, extra times ends with Casemiro getting away with a foul and a booking.

Pens.

[Niall_Quinn]

Utd's defending for the first goal will probably become textbook for how not to defend.

[Niall_Quinn]

Hopefully Lineker isn't going to ruin this by staging a pro-Palestinian sit-in in the pen box.

[Niall_Quinn]

Two pretty decent keepers here. Good stoppers both of them.

[Niall_Quinn]

The rat slinks up to take the first...

[Niall_Quinn]

1-0 Utd, smashed it left, keeper goes right.

[Niall_Quinn]

Himinnez next...

[Niall_Quinn]

Fucks around on the run up, but same side and keeper goes other way, 1-1

[Niall_Quinn]

Dalot...

[Niall_Quinn]

Goes right, keeper left. 2-1

[Niall_Quinn]

Berg or something like that...

[Niall_Quinn]

Top left rocket, no stopping that 2-2

[Niall_Quinn]

Casemiro LOL...

[Niall_Quinn]

Good pen tbf, smashed it left. Keeper no hope. 3-2

[Niall_Quinn]

William...

[Niall_Quinn]

Calmly into right, sits the keeper down 3-3

Now Lindelof - he's been really shite,..

[Niall_Quinn]

Leno saves it left. 3-3

[Niall_Quinn]

Robinson 3-4

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lindelof. :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

No fucking around, calmly left. Zikze has to score this.

[Niall_Quinn]

Saved by Leno.

[Niall_Quinn]

Bye bye Utd

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fulham are through!!

Man Utd :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

Lindelof had a mare from the first minute he stepped on the pitch. Heaven showed him up. Why did they let him take a pen? His confidence was obviously nowhere.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I was hoping one of the takers with the stuttering run up either had theirs saved or blazed it over, can’t stand those

But either way :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

Utd still have The Top Half of the Table Trophy to go for.

[Niall_Quinn]

How does a club with that many resources end up like this? Not talking about pens, but that performance was so poor.

Leno :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

I want Fulham to win it now. They have almost as many Arsenal players as we do.

[Niall_Quinn]

Some bird doing the draw, for some reason.

[Niall_Quinn]

Danny Murphy will expertly handle the balls along with Dennis, the hack, Irwin.

[Niall_Quinn]

First FA Cup final I really paid attention to was West Ham vs Fulham, back in 1293 or something like that.

[Niall_Quinn]

Fulham vs Crustal Palace - so a bye
Preston vs Aston Villa (gud hevenink)
Bournemouth vs Man City
Brighton vs Forest or Ipswich

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fulham v Crystal Palace
Preston North End v Aston Villa
Bournemouth v Manchester City
Brighton & Hove Albion v Nottingham Forest or Ipswich Town

[Niall_Quinn]

Fulham v Crystal Palace
Preston North End v Aston Villa
Bournemouth v Manchester City
Brighton & Hove Albion v Nottingham Forest or Ipswich Town

Can I be an admin now?

[Niall_Quinn]

Ruben is up...

English lessons not going great then?

[Niall_Quinn]

Studio trying to figure out why Utd are so shit. Could it be money becoming more important than football?

Definitely not - and besides, they wouldn't be allowed to state the obvious.

City next.

[Letters]

I was hoping one of the takers with the stuttering run up either had theirs saved or blazed it over, can’t stand those

But either way :lol:
Agreed on all points.
I can't stand those sorts of run ups and while short run ups don't annoy me they do make me nervous when one of our players does it.

While we're here, tell you what grinds my gears - commentators saying how great a penalty was when actually it was perfectly saveable, the 'keeper just went the wrong way.

[Niall_Quinn]

A modern football fan explains the modern game. THERE IS NO TALENT! True that. The modern game is probably the biggest scam ever to befall sport. Sport used to be about competition. Now it's all about grift. The money, the cheating, the bullshit from the pundits who get paid to cover it (bribed). Utter bullshit. This is Manchester United he's talking about. And look at the "master" Pep, once his mercenaries cash out. Yes, we have Liverpool, but look at them too. The heroes who kiss the badge are keeping their cards to their traitorous chests so they can either milk the club or go elsewhere to achieve the highest sporting achievement they can envisage - CASH!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpd8PIGavDk

[Letters]

THERE IS NO TALENT!
You seem to have "accidentally" left out the rest of his sentence which makes the context clear.
The whole sentence is "there is no talent in that team to the level that is required".
So he is specifically talking about the Utd team, not football in general. And he qualifies the "no talent" with the "to the level that is required".

[HCZ_Reborn]

Ipswich take the lead at Forest through Hirst

[HCZ_Reborn]

So last time Ipswich made the quarter finals was 1993, where they drew us

[Letters]

There’s a game tonight? After the draw was made?

[HCZ_Reborn]

There’s a game tonight? After the draw was made?

Yes that happens a lot

[HCZ_Reborn]

Forest win 5-4 on pels after getting an equaliser via Yates

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fulham 0-1 Palace, Eze.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-2 Sarr. :blink:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Palace seem to be better away from home (as do Fulham) and of course we have to play them both at the Emirates

[HCZ_Reborn]

Have to say don’t care about the results of any of this games barring Bournemouth-City

Want Bournemouth to win (I think City will win though, I think they’ll be desperate for something to come out of this car crash of a season for them plus Bournemouth’s form has dipped)

[HCZ_Reborn]

Edward make it’s 3-0

[Letters]

Edward make it’s 3-0

You’ve used all the right letters, but not necessarily in the right order ##

[HCZ_Reborn]

You’ve used all the right letters, but not necessarily in the right order ##

Bloody Norah. I don’t even have the excuse of having been heavily refreshed

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Weird pelanty situation in the Brighton v Forest game.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Forest through on penalties!

[HCZ_Reborn]

The final non premier league team left in the competition is three nil down to Villa at home

Two goals from Rashford and another from Ramsey

Previous two years, there has been one championship club in the semi finals. Sheffield United in 2023 and Coventry (who had that thoroughly entertaining 3-3 draw with United, and were a VAR decision away from making their first final in 37 years) last year.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Kepa saves Haaland pel

[HCZ_Reborn]

Bournemouth 1-0 City Evanilson

If this stays the same (IF) then we will either have a team that has not won the cup since the 1950s (Forest 1959, Villa 1957) or we will have a new winner for the first time in 12 years

[HCZ_Reborn]

Winner of this match plays Forest at Wembley

The other semi is between Villa and Palace

We were due to play Palace on the weekend of the semi finals, that will now be re-scheduled

[HCZ_Reborn]

Haaland equalises

Boo

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-2 Marmoush.

I also though Citeh might win this one.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Man City are through.

Iraola. :doh:

[Marc Overmars]

Definitely would prefer to see Palace win it out of the 4 left.

[Mac76]

Definitely would prefer to see Palace win it out of the 4 left.

Yeah, agree

[Mac76]

First decent chance for Villa but Rogers fluffs it

[Mac76]

Mateta scores but ruled out for a foul, not sure about that... but doesn't matter, Eze scores!

[Mac76]

Mitchell messes up a good chance

[Mac76]

Pel to Palace

[Mac76]

Rick Wakeman getting angry :lol:

[Mac76]

Mateta puts it wide :doh:

[Mac76]

2-0 Sarr screamer!

[Mac76]

Eddie coming on - Palace settling for 2-0 then

[Niall_Quinn]

Forgot this was on. Well done Palace. Eddie's on! Good luck to the kid.

[Niall_Quinn]

That's great football - should have been a goal.

[Niall_Quinn]

End to end - real football. Liking it. Pep not needed here.

[Mac76]

2-0 down and less than 10 mins to go in a FAC semi and Villa play a short corner :doh:

[Niall_Quinn]

Just saw the goals - two strikers goals. Nice. Can't argue.

[Mac76]

Cash :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

Wow, why would a keeper just kick the ball into touch? That's fucking terrible. Top level lads, no room for that!

[Mac76]

7 mins ET ...

[Niall_Quinn]

7 minutes - lol. Can't comment, didn't see the full half. But the reaction of the crowd kind of tells the story. Used to be 7 minutes was awarded when we had to pause for nuclear war.

[Niall_Quinn]

Or when Alex Ferguson was in the vicinity.

[Niall_Quinn]

3-0. Dick Emery - lol.

[Mac76]

3-0 Sarr!

Eddie assist :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

Lovely finish, lovely strength and distribution from Eddie.

[Niall_Quinn]

One of our own :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

Eddie a bit shit there too. It's a mixed bag. But always trying,

[Niall_Quinn]

That was lovely play by Palace. Marvellous.

Then the final whistle - blown away!

Well done Palace. Good luck in the final. Don't even know who you are facing but certain it must be a cunt team.

[Mac76]

3-0 HT

Palace played really well

Emery :pal:

Martinez :pal:

Really hope Forest win tomorrow

[Niall_Quinn]

Oh, it could be Forest? That would be great.

[Niall_Quinn]

AGAIN, women intruding on men's sport - fucking bitches. If their league is so great then get the fuck back there. Fuck it, BBC putting shitty women's results above real football in their web site. So go and do that, bitch. Get the fuck out of REAL football!

[Niall_Quinn]

And by women I mean - sack Lineker.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Nottingham Forest: Sels, Abbott, Milenkovic, Murillo, Dominguez, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Danilo, Toffolo, Hudson-Odoi, Wood.
Subs: Miguel, Morato, Sangare, Awoniyi, Moreno, Jota, Elanga, Sosa, Boly.

Manchester City: Ortega, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Lewis, Kovacic, Bernardo, Savinho, Grealish, Marmoush
Subs: Ederson, Doku, Nico, De Bruyne, Gundogan, Reis, Akanji, Khusanov, Foden

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Forest 0-1 Man City, Lewis.

[Letters]

1-0 City :rolleyes:
Good finish tbf

[Mac76]

c'mon Forest ffs

[Letters]

c'mon Forest ffs

:gp:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What a miss from Elanga!

[Letters]

How the hell did he miss that?! :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sels somehow gets it off the line with his feet!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-2 Man City, Gvardiol. :doh:

[Letters]

Sigh. 2-0 City

*turns off*

[Mac76]

Forest's season has just fallen apart

We have to hold on to the fact Palace were 2-0 up against Citeh the other week and hope they can do a better job of holding onto a lead next time

At least they're safely mid-table while Citeh still have to fight for top five, Glasner can really manage his squad ahead of it

[HCZ_Reborn]

So both matches turning out to be a disappointment, not that I had any great hope with either

[Mac76]

I'm very happy with the Liverpool game, the Spuds are getting kicked :good:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Right now watching spurs getting beaten is for the most part a bit like watching a guy you hated who has now become a homeless alcoholic getting beaten up by youths in a piss stained alley, just pitiable.

I hope obviously they get beaten in the Europa league. But I’d have taken a lot more pleasure watching Liverpool lose at home to a group of incompetents and stagger over the line at the last personally

[Letters]

I'm very happy with the Liverpool game, the Spuds are getting kicked :good:

The result is completely irrelevant.
They have to go out of the Europa League.
If they win that then no one will remember their awful league season.
Very much the Carabao Cup of Europe, but still :sick:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Frankly I’d rather see the humiliation of city, Chelsea and Liverpool.

City for plunging the last knife into the heart of the game

Chelsea for getting the process started, for having scumbag fans and for tainting the European cup by winning it….even if we win it in May, it will be 50% less special…because of them.


Liverpool ? For winning what should have been our title. Of course I reserve the most disdain towards Arteta for that, I’d have no problem with him getting the helicopter ride that Pinochet’s opponents were treated to for that. But fuck Liverpool.

[Letters]

Frankly I’d rather see the humiliation of city, Chelsea and Liverpool.

City for plunging the last knife into the heart of the game

Chelsea for getting the process started, for having scumbag fans and for tainting the European cup by winning it….even if we win it in May, it will be 50% less special…because of them.

:gp:

For this part.
But don’t agree with the final paragraph. Our pathetic league campaign is on us, it’s annoying that Liverpool have nipped in and won a title which we should have been best placed to, but I don’t bear any malice towards Liverpool for our failings.

[HCZ_Reborn]

:gp:

For this part.
But don’t agree with the final paragraph. Our pathetic league campaign is on us, it’s annoying that Liverpool have nipped in and won a title which we should have been best placed to, but I don’t bear any malice towards Liverpool for our failings.

Them finishing above us is enough reason to have malice towards them

Plus as I said, Shaqiri is Boss is a decent enough guy but there’s far more online Liverpool fans who are a bunch of entitled dickheads. These are people who wanted City to win the title rather than us last season. I resent that they’ve had it so easy, and that resentment won’t fade unless they are humiliated next season

[Mac76]

The result is completely irrelevant.
They have to go out of the Europa League.
If they win that then no one will remember their awful league season.
Very much the Carabao Cup of Europe, but still :sick:

Spuds getting a kicking is never irrelevant

that said you're right they absolutely cannot win the EL :sulk:

funnily enough it would be very Spudsy to get knocked out by a team like Bodo Glimt :lol:

[Letters]

Spuds getting a kicking is never irrelevant

that said you're right they absolutely cannot win the EL :sulk:

funnily enough it would be very Spudsy to get knocked out by a team like Bodo Glimt :lol:

:(

[Letters]

Come on, Palace!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Palace.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Both Guardiola and Glasner going for the middle aged guy going out clubbing chique

[Letters]

1-0 PALACE!! Come ON!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

EZE!!!

[HCZ_Reborn]

Eze gives thanks to the Almighty for his right footed first time finish

Good run from Munoz and flick from Mateta

[Letters]

Palace look so good going forward, breaking with pace.

I wish we did that :(

[HCZ_Reborn]

Jaysus, woman in the crowd, her rolls of fat make her look like a Dog Kong Toy

[Letters]

Ah piss. Palace 'keeper handballed it and it's "being looked at" :sick:

[Letters]

Jaysus, woman in the crowd, her rolls of fat make her look like a Dog Kong Toy

:lol:

[Letters]

:unsure:

Not sure how he got away with that. I mean, I don't think it's a red card but it was clearly a handball

[HCZ_Reborn]

The font typeface on the back of those city shirts is very Word 3.1

[HCZ_Reborn]

Palace look so good going forward, breaking with pace.

I wish we did that :(

It’s not like City lack the players to break with pace, but it relies on being able to lure the other team into overcommitting. And teams like Palace don’t overcommit unless they are chasing a game

Also we did break with pace against City and won 5-1 in the process. Fun times

[Letters]

Pel to City :rolleyes:

Was too. Sigh.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Pel to City

Looked pretty nailed on to me

[Mac76]

Never a pel, he got the ball

[Letters]

SAVED!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Henderson saves it!!

[Letters]

Never a pel, he got the ball

:lol: Bullshit. I mean, possibly the slightest touch - and I guess you could argue that's all you need. But I'd have been screaming for a pel had that been against us and would have been furious had it been overturned.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Never a pel, he got the ball

He did but he got too much of the player too. That’s never being overturned if given on field

[HCZ_Reborn]

Don’t want to jinx it but Wimbledon 88 vibes, early goal and pel save

[Letters]

Don’t want to jinx it but Wimbledon 88 vibes, early goal and pel save

Mmm. I wasn't thinking exactly that but I did think it has a "name written on the Cup" vibe. Not that I believe in that.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Jaysus another “character” in the crowd, can afford a cup final ticket but can’t afford to go and get his hair cut properly, so does it himself with kitchen scissors

[HCZ_Reborn]

Good save Henderson from Doku, Haaland and Marmoush almost getting in each others ways in trying to head the rebound towards goal

[HCZ_Reborn]

Like Mateta’s head gear, half spitfire pilot, half Rugby Union lock

[Letters]

1-0 HT
Nice.

[HCZ_Reborn]

1-0 HT
Nice.

https://media.tenor.com/59PRsZIXjeEAAAAM/the-fast-how.gif

[Mac76]

:unsure:

Not sure how he got away with that. I mean, I don't think it's a red card but it was clearly a handball

That puzzled me too, surely it's a FK at least?

[HCZ_Reborn]

City going a bit more direct than short passes

Players like Doku and Bernardo Silva running at Palace

[HCZ_Reborn]

2-0 Munoz

Horrible set piece defending

[Letters]

2-0 STICK THAT UP YER BOLLOCKS!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

MUNOZ!!!

Ortega :haha:

[HCZ_Reborn]

I don’t think this will count

[Letters]

Ugh. Looks like VAR is going to ruin another moment.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Disallowed, boooo

[Letters]

I mean. He is offside. But fucking hate it. It just ruins moments like this.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ortega sees it though so I don't get why it's given.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I mean. He is offside. But fucking hate it. It just ruins moments like this.

In fairness, that shouldn’t have even needed to go to VAR. I didn’t see that Sarr got a touch first time around but clearly standing in offside position

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Henderson wearing a cap whilst stood in the shade is interesting.

[Letters]

Henderson wearing a cap whilst stood in the shade is interesting.

:lol:

They did say that the sun wouldn't be an issue as the sun moved. Maybe now he just likes the look.

[Letters]

Why didn't he hit that first time?!

[HCZ_Reborn]

Edward coming on for Mateta

[Mac76]

Eddie coming on, Palace settling for the one goal it seems

[HCZ_Reborn]

Eddie coming on, Palace settling for the one goal it seems

Stop picking on Edward you

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good clearance from Haaland.

[HCZ_Reborn]

The Mekon has painted his face pink to make it to today’s game

Echeverri almost sees his name in lights, but straight at Henderson

[Letters]

What a scramble! :lol:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Leave Edward alone you bastards :lol:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Munoz shits the bed

[HCZ_Reborn]

Will Hughes on for Wharton

Wharton been one of Palace best players today

[HCZ_Reborn]

Ten minutes? Fuck off

[Letters]

Oh piss off. They're speculating 10 minutes of added time.
Bullshit.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Doku cuts inside the box so far he runs the ball out of it

[McNamara That Ghost...]

10 added minutes. :haha:

[Letters]

10 added minutes. :haha:

I'm not a tin foil hat kinda guy but holy shit are they trying to do everything they can to stop Palace winning this?
Not that I really believe "they" exist.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Have to say, Eze played out of his skin this half.

[Letters]

City kid crying :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Palace 1-0 Man City, FT!!!! Palace win the FA Cup and their first major trophy!!!

[Marc Overmars]

Well done Palace!! :bow:

City. :haha:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Big congratulations to Palace

Big fuck off to City

[Letters]

Stay humble, you cunt!

[Letters]

Big congratulations to Palace

Big fuck off to City

:gp:

[Letters]

South London Forever :scarf:

[Marc Overmars]

Eddie left us to win things. :ninja:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Eddie left us to win things. :ninja:

:haha: behave

Still though, he’s a good lad…actually pleased for him

[Letters]

Eddie left us to win things. :ninja:

:lol:

<_<

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Eddie left us to win things. :ninja:

Matt Turner too.

[Mac76]

Stay humble, you cunt!

:gp:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Matt Turner too.

I didn’t even realise he was playing for Palace, I thought he was still a bench warmer at Forest :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I didn’t even realise he was playing for Palace, I thought he was still a bench warmer at Forest :lol:

Making a better career choice this time coming to London.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

I really quite enjoyed that.

Now for a double countout on Wednesday.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I really quite enjoyed that.

Now for a double countout on Wednesday.

Everyone bar The city players, Guardiola and the Gallagher Brothers did

[Mac76]

I mean, possibly the slightest touch - and I guess you could argue that's all you need. But I'd have been screaming for a pel had that been against us and would have been furious had it been overturned.

No he got a decent touch to take it away from the attacker, who then ran into him, I'd be really annoyed if that was given against us.

That said I do think Henderson should have walked for the handball denying a goalscoring opp, but as the saying goes...
"...but frankly, who cares?" :lol:

[Letters]

No he got a decent touch to take it away from the attacker, who then ran into him, I'd be really annoyed if that was given against us.
Took me about 4 replays before I thought he got any touch at all, he definitely got more man than ball.


That said I do think Henderson should have walked for the handball denying a goalscoring opp, but as the saying goes...
Nah. I mean, it was handball but Haaland was going away from goal so I don't think it was a red. I'm surprised they didn't do something though like a yellow.


"...but frankly, who cares?" :lol:

Correct :d

[Niall_Quinn]

At least we aren't city, I guess. Imagine finding a way to have a worse season than us?