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PedroSpecialK

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Liverpool brought Thiago on and started playing through the middle, and the Villa legs understandably grew tired with ~15% possession.

They acquitted themselves incredibly well in a game that shouldn't have been close
 

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Sunny von Bulow
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Everton with a truly putrid display against Rotherham, currently at the bottom of the Championship. Bagged an early goal but from about 15’ to about 80’ Toffees were as bad as I’ve seen them. 1-1 after full time and Doucoure scored in extra time to salvage an undeserved advancement.
 

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Goal and an assist for Saman Ghoddos has Brentford up 2-1 against Middlesbrough, 81' - now FT
 
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Arsenal v Newcastle went to extra time. Newcastle should have won it in the second half but missed a couple of great chances. Arsenal took theirs in extra time to win 2-0. ESR wih a really neat finish from an acute angle. Auba finally got on the scoresheet, Tierney with the assist but Xhaka desrves credit for a slide rule pass to Tierney who just had to knock it into the six yard box for Auba to get the tap in.
 

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Tottenham visiting 8th-tier Marine AFC for this round, whose pitch can best be described as a park behind a row of two-family homes. The fans are watching from their gardens, sounding air horns during Spurs free kicks.

It's Marine's 2nd time making it to the third round of the FA Cup. After they won last round, their keeper was pictured, in uniform, buying packs of beer at the local grocery.
 

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Marine hit the crossbar on a shot Joe Hart gave up on from 25 yards out, and then a questionable handball appeal in the Spurs box shortly after. Come on, Marine!
 

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Marine looked like they weren't going to be able to train before this match, due to Covid closing training centers and freezing weather making outdoor options impractical, until both Liverpool and Everton made their training facilities available. So for a few days, these guys got to train like Premier League players. Good for them.
 

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Spurs now up 1-0 and have had the predictable advantage in possession and oppurtunity but Marine are giving them a game. That strike was real quality.

I didn't realize Joe Hart was still in the PL.
 

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Roger Bennett of Men in Blazers and native Liverpudlian:

View: https://twitter.com/rogbennett/status/1348313811909009409?s=20


We used to watch Marine as a kid when I was growing up. You would go to their matches because you knew the players - they were your geography teachers or the kids of your local shopkeeper. Thrilling to watch Spurs take the hallowed turf of Rossett Park now. Like a waking Dream


and

View: https://twitter.com/MenInBlazers/status/1348315732568899584?s=20

There are numbers around the Marine ground to show the groundsmen which house to run round to when the ball is kicked into their back garden
 

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Leeds got destroyed by Crawley. The 3-0 was not a misrepresentation of the relative performances.
 

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2-0 with Vinicius working a brace. Yes if course I’m rooting for Spurs... I‘ve been a Patriots fan too.

Edit: that said, the Chorley locker room video above is utterly charming.
 

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2-0 with Vinicius working a brace. Yes if course I’m rooting for Spurs... I‘ve been a Patriots fan too.

Edit: that said, the Chorley locker room video above is utterly charming.
Final was 5-0. Vinicius hat a hat trick, Moura bent in a free kick and 16 year old Alfie Devine became the youngest ever Tottenham player and goal scorer.

Dele Alli was really good this match (as he should be). Bale got some run and no one was injured.

One of the Marine players played for Liverpool 17 years ago and made his debut against Spurs. And they told another story of a Marine player that won the FA Youth Cup with Liverpool, beating ManU, and not a single player from that Liverpool team ever got PL minutes. A third player played for the Inverness Caledonian Thistle team that won the 2015 Scottish Cup, beating Celtic in the semis, although he missed that game due to injury.

Marine FC is one of the only English FA clubs not named for a geographical location--Marine was the name of the hotel where the founders met to form the club.
 
Newport County vs. Brighton was wild. Brighton scored the first goal of the game in the 90th minute, but Newport County (in League Two) equalized in the 6th of five minutes of injury time on an own goal. Wound up going to penalties, and when Brighton's keeper brilliantly saved the first two penalties he faced, that looked like game over. But a Newport save and a Brighton miss off the post levelled it; at 2-2 going into the last kicks, Newport had another one saved but Brighton's kick to win the game was also saved. Went to the 7th kick for each team, when Brighton's keeper made another diving save and his teammate finally scored to win the shootout 4-3.
 

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4th tier Newport County took Brighton to the 7th round of a penalty shootout before finally going out. It was scoreless until Brighton got one n the 90th minute, only for Newport to get a last-gasp OG in the 6th minute of stoppage time to send it to extra time.

EDIT: Or what CP just said.
 

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Draw done for both the 4th and 5th rounds. Fourth round matchups below paired by fifth round matchup.

United and Liverpool will play back-to-back on the 17th and 23th.

Arsenal will probably do the same with Southampton on the 23rd and 26th.

Arsenal's knockout opponents this year for all competitions: Leicester, Liverpool, City, Newcastle, Southampton, Benfica. Fuck me.


Cheltenham Town v Manchester City
Swansea City v Nottingham Forest

Southampton or Shrewsbury Town v Arsenal
Chorley v Wolverhampton Wanderers

Barnsley v Norwich City
Chelsea v Luton Town

Bournemouth v Crawley Town
Fulham v Burnley

Millwall v Bristol City
Sheffield United v Plymouth Argyle

Manchester United v Liverpool
Stockport County or West Ham United v Doncaster Rovers

Brighton & Hove Albion v Blackpool
Brentford v Leicester City

Wycombe Wanderers v Tottenham Hotspur
Everton v Sheffield Wednesday
 

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Pleased with West Ham here. Abysmal conditions, got the win and no one drowned.
It was a classic Moyes match. The opponent didn't allow him to sit deep and counter and he flailed wildly because he has no idea what to do when his side have possession.
Also on display.... actual strikers are a good thing to have on the squad sheet
 

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FA novice here: How do they determine who the home team is? Certainly an intriguing tournament when you have Premier League teams playing on these quaint little neighborhood pitches.
 

swiftaw

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FA novice here: How do they determine who the home team is? Certainly an intriguing tournament when you have Premier League teams playing on these quaint little neighborhood pitches.
First team drawn of each pair is the home team.
 

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ESPN+ absolutely sucks when it comes to casting it onto another device. I have no problem casting Peacock, CBS All-Access, Netflix, etc. from my laptop to my television, but I get the shittiest quality from ESPN+.

Tottenham got a goal early against a sloppy Everton side, so you know what that means...
 

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ESPN+ absolutely sucks when it comes to casting it onto another device. I have no problem casting Peacock, CBS All-Access, Netflix, etc. from my laptop to my television, but I get the shittiest quality from ESPN+.

Tottenham got a goal early against a sloppy Everton side, so you know what that means...
Apparently not?

I don't know where Biesla got the Mission Impossible style Jose mask, but I am very much enjoying the resulting first half
 

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Richarlison seems intent on making me revise my previously held "Richarlison is really overrated" take.

Sanchez scored the equalizer and then pretty much gave away Everton's fourth ten minutes later with some horrific positioning and awareness.

Edit: 4-4!
 

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LOL I vainly wasted my time hoping for Jordan Morris to do something amazing against City when Swansea had less than a quarter of the ball. Picked the wrong match today!
 

Kliq

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I stopped watching due to my stream being ass and needed to get some work done...and I miss the most exciting game of the Jose era.
 

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Sunny von Bulow
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Everton might be spending some training time working on defending corners tomorrow.
It's been a strength all year but tonight has been an atrocity. Keane and Mina both look awful. Keane also was set up perfectly in the six yard box for a sitter and headed it right at Lloris.
 

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Sunny von Bulow
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now Bernard, whose sale to a team in Abu Dhabi fell through and doesn't even make the squad most games, scoes at 105' to put Everton up 5-4. Insane. Completely nuts.

This is like a Rocky fight where Rocky and Creed are standing toe to to and just pounding each other with haymakers. These teams are dead on their feet.
 

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I tend to have sympathy with Harry Winks because folks on the main Spurs blog I follow are 100% meaner about him than he deserves, but he was truly wretchedly awful in extra time. So many dangerous own-half giveaways.
 

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Sunny von Bulow
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Everton 5 - 4 Tottenham (aet)

D. Sanchez 3'
Calvert-Lewin 36'
Richarlison 38'
Sigurdsson 43' (pen)
Lamela 45' +2'
D.Sanchez 57'
Richarlison 68'
Kane 83'
Bernard 97'
 

Dummy Hoy

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I realize most of you root for clubs who don’t give a shit, but that was emotional seeing Leicester celebrate.

I love the FA Cup
 

Kliq

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Weekly reminder that Dummy is a better fan than you because he roots for a small club. Act is OLD dude.
 

Dummy Hoy

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Weekly reminder that Dummy is a better fan than you because he roots for a small club. Act is OLD dude.
Block me if you don’t like my shit.

Piss off calling me “an act”- never once in my time here have I suggested I was a better fan than anyone, and if that what you read, maybe you gotta check yourself. I root for a shitty club, not a small one, and it sucks. But I also root for football in general, and have pretty traditionalist views when it comes to sport. That includes a love of the FA Cup that I don’t see reciprocated around here very often (we all love the AFC Marine stories of course).

This thread dies on a vine every year...why? Because the biggest clubs in England (you know, the ones who tried to jump to the super league) don’t give a shit about this competition generally, and therefore they prioritize other competitions. Fans of those teams understandably follow suit.

All I said was (while bumping this months old thread) this seemingly may not be as interesting to many of you on the board, but I think it’s great. Sorry you got offended

Edit: upon reflection, it’s also just me giving shit the only way I can, because that’s all I’ve got. Point remains though, fuckoff and block me if “my act” is OLD
 
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coremiller

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I root for a big club, and I got a bit emotional when Leicester won the cup this year. The Foxes really are the €$£ antidote.
This is not really true, LCFC are owned by the family that controls a Thai conglomerate with close ties to the ruling Thai regime. They're not that different from City or Chelsea, just not quite as rich.