Carling Cup QF Draw. Soccer Saturday (SSN) from 12PM. 29th Oct.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Carling Cup Quarter-Finalists:

Arsenal
Blackburn Rovers
Cardiff
Chelsea
Crystal Palace
Liverpool
Manchester City
Manchester United

QF Matches w/c 28th November 2011

This ought to be interesting. :popcorn:

[LDG]

Liverpool v Arsenal
Blackburn v Chelsea
Cardiff v Man Utd
Palace v Man City

Nailed on. In fact I may have a bet.

They will of course want a big showpiece, so any way in which they can get Utd v City in the final, it will happen.

[Master Splinter]

The pub teams will face each other.

So us versus Blackburn it is.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

Cant remember, but this year seems a lot tougher than last! ?

[Marc Overmars]

The last 8 of this is usually pretty strong.

Arguably tougher than the FA Cup.

[Dog Toffee]

The reason its harder this year and recently, and hence means more as a trophy, is because only 2/3 teams have a chance of the PL each year, and even less in the CL. So the CC is many clubs only hope for a cup. In the past more teams stood a better chance at the league IMO.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Using Pi, I have conducted tomorrows draw.

Cardiff v Arsenal

Chelsea v Crystal Palace

Blackburn v Liverpool

Manchester United v Money City

[Letters]

The reason its harder this year and recently, and hence means more as a trophy, is because only 2/3 teams have a chance of the PL each year, and even less in the CL. So the CC is many clubs only hope for a cup. In the past more teams stood a better chance at the league IMO.

Isn't it because clubs in Europe, who are by definition mostly the better clubs, only have to play about 2 games before they're in the quarter finals?

[Syn]

Using Pi, I have conducted tomorrows draw.

Cardiff v Arsenal

Chelsea v Crystal Palace

Blackburn v Liverpool

Manchester United v Money City

:pray:

I'd love that.

[Fist of Lehmann]

Using Pi, I have conducted tomorrows draw.

Cardiff v Arsenal

Chelsea v Crystal Palace

Blackburn v Liverpool

Manchester United v Money CityAdmit it.

You used hot Pi and cold Pi to fix that draw.

[fakeyank]

We need Utd to play City. Chelsea to play Liverpool. The winner of these two to play each other in the SF and liverpool to come out victorious. Our only realistic chance of winning the CC tbh or else, count that as one more year without a trophy.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

:goodpost:. . . .for you

Was expecting will play Citeh, get knocked which ultimately hammers one more nail in the coffin that the hearse that you are at the wheel of, is carrying. . .morning FY

[Olivier's xmas twist]

draw should be on soon

[McNamara That Ghost...]

It's on after the break, apparently.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Starting in about 3 mins, after showing the ususal lol

[Syn]

:popcorn:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Here we go. :popcorn:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Arsenal vs Man City. :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Chelsea vs Liverpool. Ouch.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Man Utd vs Crystal Palace. FFS. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cardiff vs Blackburn.

[Marc Overmars]

Nice. :popcorn:

Happy we're at home as well.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Arsenal vs Man City. :doh:

Nasri's Coming home lol

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Man Utd vs Crystal Palace. FFS. :lol:

They always get the hard teams don't they lol

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Shame we won't be seeing the kids in the cc no more

[Syn]

Early-ish cup tie at home.

A win as always under Wenger's Arsenal.

Hope we get Palace in the semi's.

[GP]

Nasri's Coming home lol

Nah, game will be played at the Emirates, not Cuntsville.

[Coney]

Nasri's Coming home lol


Nah, game will be played at the Emirates, not the island of Lesbos.

:good:

[fakeyank]

If we beat those money bag scums, the cup is ours

[milla]

At £5 pp, I am definitely going to this one. :coffee:

[LDG]

We'lll do alright against City. They want to play football now, which will play more into our hands.

[Özim]

Very tough game, their squad is frankly scary......we might be at home but they put Man U to the sword away...they have a lot of goalscoring threats....they've scored a record breaking number of goals so far apparently (in the league).

Would feel so great to win this.

[Coney]

In a one-off match anything can happen. Sure, they beat manu 6-1 (though manu just chucked in the towel after 4-1 so the final scoreline is not a true reflection of how good they are) but since we beat chavs 5-3 coming back from a goal down, from them equalising at 3-3, any of which would have caused us to pack up and go home in the past, so I reckon this match is by no means a forgone conclusion either way. If we can get past this round, we are going to look very good but more importantly, it is going to give the team a great boost of confidence when combined with todays result at chavs (and after we have qualified for the CL knockout stage after this week). :good:

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Very tough game, their squad is frankly scary......we might be at home but they put Man U to the sword away...they have a lot of goalscoring threats....they've scored a record breaking number of goals so far apparently (in the league).

Would feel so great to win this.

They will rest lots of players though as the league is their aim, being at home will be a big advantage tbh depending on the teams i guess. If the team thats plays them can play like the team the played in the 2nd half today we'll beat them and any other team.

[Coney]

They will rest lots of players though as the league is their aim, being at home will be a big advantage tbh depending on the teams i guess. If the team thats plays them can play like the team the played in the 2nd half today we'll beat them and any other team.

Their match afterwards in the league will be Norwich at home so they won't worry too much about resting players. We have Wigan away after this tie. Should be able to play a decent team for the CC match though.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Their match afterwards in the league will be Norwich at home so they won't worry too much about resting players. We have Wigan away after this tie. Should be able to play a decent team for the CC match though.

Still looking forward to it, is the game on General Sale do you know, thanks in advance

[Coney]

Still looking forward to it, is the game on General Sale do you know, thanks in advance

I don't know. In any case, I can't go as I live the other side of the country so weekday matches are out. I can only make some weekend games.