The Not-Very-Official FA Cup 2006 Thread

[Famine]

Today (other than a single fixture last night) sees the start of the 3rd Round of the FA Cup - the first round in which teams from the top two divisions will take part. Today is the start of the FA Cup...

So, feel free to use this thread to discuss predictions, results, shocks, goals, sendings-off, whatever.

G-g-g-g-g-g-go!

Results
Round Three
6/1/06 - Port Vale 2 - 1 Doncaster Rovers
7/1/06 (early kick-off) - City Hull 0 - 1 Aston Villa
7/1/06 (early kick-off) - Arsenal 2 - 1 Cardiff City
7/1/06 (early kick-off) - Wigan Athletic 1 - 1 Leeds United
7/1/06 - Barnsley 1 - 1 Warsaw
7/1/06 - Blackburn Rovers 3 - 0 Queens Park Rangers
7/1/06 - Brighton & Hove Albion 0 - 1 Coventry City
7/1/06 - Chelsea 2 - 1 Huddersfield Town
7/1/06 - Cheltenham Town 2 - 2 Chester City
7/1/06 - Crystal Palace 4 - 1 Northampton Town
7/1/06 - Derby County 2 - 1 Burnley
7/1/06 - Ipswich Town 0 - 1 Portsmouth
7/1/06 - Manchester City 3 - 1 Scunthorpe United
7/1/06 - Millwall 1 - 1 Everton
7/1/06 - Newcastle United 1 - 0 Mansfield Town
7/1/06 - Norwich City 1 - 2 West Ham United
7/1/06 - Nuneaton Borough 1 - 1 Middlesbrough
7/1/06 - Preston North End 2 - 1 Crewe Alexandra
7/1/06 - Sheffield United 1 - 2 Colchester United
7/1/06 - Sheffield Wednesday 2 - 4 Charlton Athletic
7/1/06 - Southampton 4 - 3 Milton Keynes Dons
7/1/06 - Stockport County 2 - 3 Brentford
7/1/06 - Stoke City 0 - 0 Tamworth
7/1/06 - Torquay United 0 - 0 Birmingham City
7/1/06 - Watford 0 - 3 Bolton Wanderers
7/1/06 - West Bromwich Albion 1 - 1 Reading
7/1/06 - Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 - 0 Plymouth Argyle
7/1/06 (late kick-off) - Luton Town 3 - 5 Liverpool
8/1/06 - Fulham 1 - 2 Leyton Orient
8/1/06 - Sunderland 3 - 0 Northwich Victoria
8/1/06 - Burton Albion 0 - 0 Manchester United
8/1/06 - Leicester City 3 - 2 Tottenham Hotspur
Round Three Replays
17/1/06 - Leeds United 3 - 3 Wigan Athletic
17/1/06 - Reading 3 - 2 West Bromwich Albion
17/1/06 - Birmingham City 2 - 0 Torquay United
17/1/06 - Tamworth 1 - 1 Stoke City (after Extra Time; Stoke City win 4-2 on penalties)
17/1/06 - Middlesbrough 5 - 2 Nuneaton Borough
17/1/06 - Chester City 0 - 1 Cheltenham Town
17/1/06 - Warsaw 2 - 0 Barnsley
18/1/06 - Everton 1 - 0 Millwall
18/1/06 - Manchester United 5 - 0 Burton Albion

Round Four
28/1/06 (early kick-off) - Cheltenham Town 0 - 2 Newcastle United
28/1/06 - Aston Villa 3 - 1 Port Vale
28/1/06 - Brentford 2 - 1 Sunderland
28/1/06 - Charlton Athletic 2 - 1 Leyton Orient
28/1/06 - Colchester United 3 - 1 Derby County
28/1/06 - Coventry City 1 - 1 Middlesbrough
28/1/06 - Everton 1 - 1 Chelsea
28/1/06 - Leicester City 0 - 1 Southampton
28/1/06 - Manchester City 1 - 0 Wigan Athletic
28/1/06 - Preston North End 1 - 1 Crystal Palace
28/1/06 - Reading 1 - 1 Birmingham City
28/1/06 - Stoke City 2 - 1 Warsaw
28/1/06 - West Ham United 4 - 2 Blackburn Rovers
28/1/06 (late kick-off) - Bolton Wanderers 1 - 0 Arsenal
29/1/06 - Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 - 3 Manchester United
29/1/06 - Portsmouth 1 - 2 Liverpool
Round Four Replays
7/2/06 - Birmingham City 2 - 1 Reading
7/2/06 - Crystal Palace 1 - 2 Preston North End
8/2/06 - Chelsea 4 - 1 Everton
8/2/06 - Middlesbrough 1 - 0 Coventry City

Round Five
18/2/06 (early kick-off) - Liverpool 1 - 0 Manchester United
18/2/06 - Bolton Wanderers 0 - 0 West Ham United
18/2/06 - Charlton Athletic 3 - 1 Brentford
18/2/06 (late kick-off) - Newcastle United 1 - 0 Southampton
19/2/06 (early kick-off) - Preston North End 0 - 2 Middlesbrough
19/2/06 (early kick-off) - Stoke City 0 - 1 Birmingham City
19/2/06 - Chelsea 3 - 1 Colchester United
19/2/06 (late kick-off) - Aston Villa 1 - 1 Manchester City
Round Five Replays
14/3/06 Manchester City 2 - 1 Aston Villa
15/3/06 West Ham United 2 - 1 Bolton Wanderers

Round 6 (Quarter-Final)
20/3/06 Manchester City 1 - 2 West Ham United
21/3/06 Birmingham City 0 - 7 Liverpool
22/3/06 Chelsea 1 - 0 Newcastle United
23/3/06 Charlton Athletic 0 - 0 Middlesbrough
Round 6 (Quarter-Final) Replay
12/4/06 Middlesbrough 4 - 2 Charlton Athletic

Semi-Finals
22/4/06 Chelsea 1 - 2 Liverpool (at Old Trafford)
23/4/06 Middlesbrough 0 - 1 West Ham United (at Villa Park)

Final
13/5/06
Liverpool 3 - 3 West Ham United
(Liverpool win 3-1 on penalties, After Extra Time)
(at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff)​

(unexpected results underlined for clarity/foreigners)

 

[ExigeEvan]

COME ON LUTON!

3-1 at 53 mins!

[EDIT]
3-4

"3-1 And you ****ed it up"- Liverpool fans

 

[Famine]

I'm still laughing at the Liverpool game.

5th goal (5th Liverpool one - 8th total)... Luton keeper goes up for the play, presumably to assist in getting the score to 4-4 from 3-4, and gets caught out. Xabi Alonso picks the ball up and hoofs it upfield from 15 yards inside his own half. Steven Gerrard is infuriated - he's hopping mad, waving his arms around, angry that Alonso didn't pass to him - until he sees the ball trickle into the back of the unguarded Luton net, then he turns and claps Alonso.

Qual-i-ty...

 

[Mr. Boy]

OMG! Liverpool almost lost! Those two goals from Xabi Alonso were classic.

 

[ExigeEvan]

I'm still laughing at the Liverpool game.

5th goal (5th Liverpool one - 8th total)... Luton keeper goes up for the play, presumably to assist in getting the score to 4-4 from 3-4, and gets caught out. Xabi Alonso picks the ball up and hoofs it upfield from 15 yards inside his own half. Steven Gerrard is infuriated - he's hopping mad, waving his arms around, angry that Alonso didn't pass to him - until he sees the ball trickle into the back of the unguarded Luton net, then he turns and claps Alonso.

Qual-i-ty...

It was his double-take on it that made me laugh.

 

[Race Idiot]

The best part was when Gerrard fell over during the interview, that made me laugh almost as much as Arry being phoned by 'the wife' during one.

 

[el flexo]

im a liverpool fan, and sinama-pon-GOAL needs some praise, he rescued it for us with king xabi, by the way, it just shows how confident he is. you have just beaten the keeper insiede your OWN half, you have got one of the best players in the world breaking free infront of you, you are -what, 70 yards out? but i tell you what, he shoots! totally ignores stevie g, and that DOES require alot of confidence, but then again, gerrard's goal was pure class. and alonso's first goal the one from 38 yards out (his shortest goal) was just fantastic. xabi deserves the key to liverpool for that. COME ON RAFA'S REDMEN! LETS GO ALL THE WAY!

 

[Dave A]

Well Man U won 5-0, was pretty much a straight forward game, we had time to run around them. To Burton's credit they never put their head's down and kept fighting till the end even though the gulf in class was blatantly obvious this time around. Man of the match was Josepi Rossi, and very well deserved, he had a blinder of a game, Saha was ****e, to be kind. He scored at the start but that's it, he lost the ball I don't know how many time's and if he was having a good day he'd have easilly scored a hat-trick.

Also Everton won 1-0 with a goal from Cahill.

 

[Race Idiot]

Josepi Rossi,

Giuseppe Rossi

He looks pretty good tho, although I can't see him getting in the Italy team playing in England.

 

[Dave A]

That's the one. He's only young, it's too early to say how he'll develop as he mature's as a player but he's showing great promise.

 

[Race Idiot]

That's the one. He's only young, it's too early to say how he'll develop as he mature's as a player but he's showing great promise.

He's got great touch and fantastic skill, but yeah he's only 18 and he's gonna get bullied by most prem defences. He'll just have to bulk up over the years.

That final half volley was a sweet strike though.

 

[Dave A]

Yeah, I hope he does toughen up, he showed good command of the ball and very good observation in that game but like you said against Premiership defenses it's a lot tougher, they're a lot wiser and they will bully younger players off the ball. In a couple of season's we'll know.

 

[Dave A]

Well it's a United v Wigan final, bit a shock defeat for Arsenal last night, they lost Henry as well with a hamstring injury. Gigg's wen't off early with the same problem in our match which ended 2-0, Ruud missed a penalty and a sitter, but besides that Friedel made a few great save's.

 

[Famine]

(wrong cup)

 

[el flexo]

yeah, thats the carling cup

 

[Dave A]

Ooops, I knew it was the Carling cup, just mustn't have paid attention to the thread last night.

 

[Famine]

Update with today's results - go Brentford and Colchester!

 

[daan]

Why have you got Brentford beating Sunderland as unexpected?

 

[el flexo]

Why have you got Brentford beating Sunderland as unexpected?

lol!, 👍 well sunderland are pathetic!

 

[Dave A]

I agree with the Sunderland point, it wasn't really unexpected. And United's 3-0 win was pretty tidy, there was a very, very noticable gulf in class. Sometimes a lower division team can really up their game when they play a top level club but Wolve's didn't.

 

[Famine]

It's true, but it detracts a little from what Brentford did.

However you cut it, they DID beat a team who play at least 24 league places above them, and who managed, with roughly the same personnel, to gain promotion convincingly last year...

 

[el flexo]

liverpool cruised past pompey easily, JAR'S goal was brilliant

 

[Race Idiot]

liverpool cruised past pompey easily, JAR'S goal was brilliant

You didn't deserve to get that penalty, but Riise has a damn bullet shot sometimes. It was pretty even until the penalty and pompey put you under a fair amount of pressure in the second half.

Mind you the first half was a bit boring.

 

[DQuaN]

Brentford is just round the corner from me. I was at the cashpoint on Saturday afternoon and a bunch of skinheads in red and white walked past. I saw them and said "What was the score lads?", one looked at me and said "2-1 to Brentford man", I said an enthusiastic "Awesome" just as I realised he had a kind of Jeordie twang to his accent. So there I was with 10 furious Sunderland skinheads staring at me. Luckily I was 2ft away from my car that was not locked. I made a hasty exit!

 

[Dave A]

If harry had two up front in the first half, the Liverpool - Portsmouth game could have been very different. I don't think Liverpool played close to their best, but Pmpey never really looked like a proper threat. The penalty shouldn't have been given, it was ball to arm and the ball wasn't going to any liverpool players, but with decisions like that, you win some you lose some.

 

[Touring Mars]

5th Round Draw

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/4660090.stm

Aston Villa v Man City
Bolton v West Ham
Charlton v Brentford
Everton or Chelsea v Colchester
Liverpool v Man Utd
Newcastle v Southampton
Preston or Crystal Palace v Coventry or Middlesbrough
Stoke v Reading or Birmingham

 

[el flexo]

LIVERPOOL V. MAN UTD
EVERTON/CHELSEA V. COLCHESTER
ASTON VILLA V. MAN CITY
and loads of other whihc i dont care bout!

COME ON LIVERPOOL!

 

[Dave A]

COME ON MAN U

I think we'll win.

 

[el flexo]

you wanna fight about that? !!!!!

it'll be a good game whatever heppens, as long as liverpool win!

 

[Dave A]

If yer man enough drop a fiver on the floor an I'll fight ya for it.

Yeah, if both teams come out on form who know's what'll happen, either way it'll be an entertaining game.