2008-2009 FA Cup Thread

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Seeing as the draw has now been made for the Third Round, I guess I should really start the thread...

First Round: Surviving non-league clubs joined by 48 League 1 and League 2 clubs, for two-rounds of knockout games.

Second Round:

Third Round: Remaining teams joined by 44 Premiership and Championship clubs.

First Round Matches

First Round Replays


Second Round Matches
28th November 2008
Barrow 2 - 1 Brentford
Port Vale 1 - 3 Macclesfield Town

29th November 2008
Bournemouth 0 - 0 Blyth Spartans
Bradford City 1 - 2 Leyton Orient
Chesterfield - Droylsden - Match abandoned; to be restaged
Eastwood Town 2 - 0 Wycombe Wanderers
Fleetwood Town 2 - 3 Hartlepool United
Forest Green Rovers 2 - 0 Rochdale
Gillingham 0 - 0 Stockport County
Kidderminster Harriers 2 - 0 Curzon Ashton
Leicester City 3 - 2 Dagenham & Redbridge
Millwall 3 - 0 Aldershot Town
Morecambe - Cheltenham Town - Match abandoned; to be restaged
Peterborough United 0 - 0 Tranmere Rovers
Scunthorpe United 4 - 0 Alfreton Town
Southend United 3 - 1 Luton Town
Torquay United 2 - 0 Oxford United

30th November 2008
Histon 1 - 0 Leeds United
Notts County 1 - 1 Kettering Town

2nd December 2008
Morecambe 2 - 3 Cheltenham Town

3rd December 2008
Carlisle United 0 - 2 Crewe Alexandra

9th December 2008
Chesterfield 2 - 2 Droylsden

Second Round Replays
9th December 2008
Stockport County 1 - 2 Gillingham
Tranmere Rovers 1 - 2 Peterborough United

10th December 2008
Kettering Town 2 - 1 Notts County

16th December 2008
Blyth Spartans 1 - 0 Bournemouth
Droylsden 0 - 2 Chesterfield


Third Round Matches
2nd January 2009
Tottenham Hotspur 3 - 1 Wigan Athletic

3rd January 2009
Arsenal 3 - 1 Plymouth Argyle
Birmingham City - Wolverhampton Wanderers - Match postponed due to icy pitch
Cardiff City 2 - 0 Reading
Charlton Athletic 1 - 1 Norwich City
Chelsea 1 - 1 Southend United
Cheltenham Town - Doncaster Rovers - Match postponed due to icy pitch
Coventry City 2 - 0 Kidderminster Harriers
Forest Green Rovers 3 - 4 Derby County
Hartlepool United 2 - 0 Stoke City
Histon - Swansea City - Match postponed due to icy pitch
Hull City 0 - 0 Newcastle United
Ipswich Town 3 - 0 Chesterfield
Kettering Town 2 - 1 Eastwood Town
Leicester City 0 - 0 Crystal Palace
Leyton Orient - Sheffield United - Match postponed due to icy pitch
Macclesfield Town 0 - 1 Everton
Manchester City 0 - 3 Nottingham Forest
Middlesbrough 2 - 1 Barrow
Millwall 2 - 2 Crewe Alexandra
Portsmouth 0 - 0 Bristol City
Preston North End 0 - 2 Liverpool
Queens Park Rangers 0 - 0 Burnley
Sheffield Wednesday 1 - 2 Fulham
Sunderland 2 - 1 Bolton Wanderers
Torquay United 1 - 0 Blackpool
Watford 1 - 0 Scunthorpe United
West Bromwich Albion 1 - 1 Peterborough United
West Ham United 3 - 0 Barnsley

4th January 2009
Gillingham 1 - 2 Aston Villa
Southampton 0 - 3 Manchester United

5th January 2009
Blyth Spartans 0 - 1 Blackburn Rovers

13th January 2009
Birmingham City 0 - 2 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Cheltenham Town 0 - 0 Doncaster Rovers
Histon Town 1 - 2 Swansea City
Leyton Orient 1 - 4 Sheffield United

Third Round Replays
13th January 2009
Bristol City 0 - 2 Portsmouth
Burnley 2 - 1 Queen's Park Rangers - After Extra Time
Crewe Alexandra 2 - 3 Millwall
Norwich City 0 - 1 Charlton Athletic
Peterborough United 0 - 2 West Bromwich Albion

14th January 2009
Crystal Palace 2 - 1 Leicester City
Newcastle United 0 - 1 Hull City
Southend United 1 - 4 Chelsea

20th January 2009
Doncaster Rovers 3 - 0 Cheltenham Town


Fourth Round Matches
23rd January
Derby County 1 - 1 Nottingham Forest

24th January
Chelsea 3 - 1 Ipswich Town
Doncaster Rovers 0 - 0 Aston Villa
Hartlepool United 0 - 2 West Ham United
Hull City 2 - 0 Millwall
Kettering Town 2 - 4 Fulham
Manchester United 2 - 1 Tottenham Hotspur
Portsmouth 0 - 2 Swansea City
Sheffield United 2 - 1 Charlton Athletic
Sunderland 0 - 0 Blackburn Rovers
Torquay United 0 - 1 Coventry City
Watford 4 - 3 Crystal Palace
West Bromwich Albion 2 - 2 Burnley
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 - 2 Middlesbrough

25th January
Cardiff City 0 - 0 Arsenal
Liverpool 1 - 1 Everton


Fourth Round Replays
3rd February
Burnley 3 - 1 West Bromwich Albion

4th February
Aston Villa 3 - 1 Doncaster Rovers
Blackburn Rovers 2 - 1 Sunderland
Everton 1 - 0 Liverpool
Nottingham Forest 2 - 3 Derby County

16th February
Arsenal 4 - 0 Cardiff City


Fifth Round Matches
14th February
Blackburn Rovers 2 - 2 Coventry City
Sheffield United 1 - 1 Hull City
Swansea City 1 - 1 Fulham
Watford 1 - 3 Chelsea
West Ham United 1 - 1 Middlesbrough

14th February
Derby County 1 - 4 Manchester United
Everton 3 - 1 Aston Villa

8th March
Arsenal 3 - 0 Burnley


Fifth Round Replays
24th February
Coventry City 1 - 0 Blackburn Rovers
Fulham 2 - 1 Swansea City

25th February
Middlesbrough 2 - 0 West Ham United

25th February
Hull City 2 - 1 Sheffield United

Sixth Round Matches
7th March
Coventry City 0 - 2 Chelsea
Fulham 0 - 4 Manchester United

8th March
Everton 2 - 1 Middlesbrough

17th March
Arsenal 2 - 1 Hull City


Semi-Final Matches
18th April
Chelsea 2 - 1 Arsenal

19th April
Everton 0 - 0 Manchester United - Everton win 4-2 on Penalties, after Extra Time

2009 FA Cup Final - 30th May 2009
Chelsea 2 - 1 Everton
(Drogba 21', Lampard 72') - (Saha 1')​


(Eliminated teams highlighted in red; unusual results italicised)

Second Round highlights - League teams Leeds United, Brentford, Rochdale and Wycombe Wanderers, but particularly Leeds United as former winners, knocked out by non-league Histon, Barrow, Forest Green Rovers and Eastwood Town respectively.

Edit: Also non-league Kettering Town see off League team Notts County...

Edit edit: Also non-league Blyth Spartans knocking out League team Bournemouth...

Third Round highlights - The first Premiership scalp (Wigan Athletic) is taken, albeit by another Premiership club, in a Friday-night special. Shocks include Manchester City getting caned by Nottingham Forest, non-league Torquay taking out Blackpool and Hartlepool United beating Premiership Stoke City...

Fourth Round highlights - The non-League teams are all done now, along with the Cup holders Portsmouth, taken out, at home, 2-0 by Swansea!

Edit: In the replays, Burnley knock out Premiership West Brom and the "biggest" team to fall is Liverpool, taken out by city rivals Everton in the last minute of extra time...

Fifth Round highlights - None so far. A day full of draws, with Chelsea predictably going through. Only Championship Coventry beating Premiership Blackburn provides any kind of shock - and Blackburn losing a game isn't really much of a shock.
 
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Good win up at Sheffield for the team, now an interesting tie at Kettering to play, we SHOULD thump them and look to score at least 3 or 4. No offence to Kettering but as a Premiership club, that should be what our aims are.
 
Famine
You got lucky...

*grumpy*
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You really think so? I thought we deserved it, could have been more to be honest, Etuhu hitting the bar with his long-ranger, and Davies hitting the post late on....

Only_in_f1
I might pop down to Rockingham Road to watch that if I can nab a ticket
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You'll be extremely extremely lucky. We got an allocation of 1200, 350 sitting, 850 standing, had to be put in a ballot as we had 2800 season ticket holders applying. I missed out on my ticket. :grumpy: But I'm buying one off someone who's going to have to miss the match. :)

And Kettering tickets went to season ticket holders and then members, of which there are a couple thousand, and I think the rest have almost sold out through ballot again.

High demand for the match, especially as its not on telly, thank goodness. :)
 
Only_in_f1
Kettering wanted it on telly, said they would pass on the 160k fee to get it on tv. Nothing came of it.
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Yeh, I'm pleased about that though, don't want to be stuck in Kettering at 10pm on a Friday night or something like that, it's bad enough we have Sunderland away on the Tuesday after.

Saturday 3pm, when football should be played. 👍
 
United v Tottenham couldn't have been a much more boring game even if it ended 0-0. The positives are that berbatov played well, Fabio was impressive on his first team debut and Tosic looks like he will be a good player, great first touch and good movment but he looked unfit. Other than that, the game was rubbish. Somehow even playing at 50% or probably less, we still managed to get 2 more injuries to add to our list. And congratulations Arry, you've got Tottenham playing just like Portsmouth, 10 men in defence nearly all bleedin game.

Honestly I love watching teams that turn up to defend get slaughtered. Tonight we could have hammered Tottenham, but once we scored that second goal we took our feet right off the pedal. Probably because we have a game on Tuesday. But time and time again teams are coming out against us and putting 10 or 11 men behind the ball, it should be worth one or two of thoes teams players pointing out to the boss that we have been winning these games. If you lose and defend all game then what did they expenct. You don't often get hemmed back all game by a top team and not lose. If you lose but tried to close down fast and attack and play good football, then at least you can have some pride in your performance. Hell, teams that we far outclass have had a go and they've walked away with thier heads high. If Hull can give us a fight and Derby can give us a fight, why the hell do all these other bigger and much stronger clubs have to play with everyone defending all the time.

To be fair, my rant isn't about todays game. Todays game was never going to be a classic, we've got Tottenham who are all over the place mentally and in terms of team balance and United took a squad half of which play in the reserves and youth teams. We were never going to hit top gear unless we had to, and Tottenham were never going to make us. So neither team put much into tonights game imo. But games in general, take the United v Sunderland game, I don't think Sunderland had a single shot on target, I'm not sure if they even had a shot. How on earth can a team full of professional players walk out onto the pitch and play so defensively that they don't even have a shot on target in a 90 minute game. Then there's Bolton, again, 11 men behind the ball for most of the game. Bottom line is, if your up against a team like United or Arsenal, and you defend for most of the game, they are going to have enough chances that the only reason they won't win is if they blow it themselves.
 
I have to agree, after United took the lead they pretty much gave up trying to score and as for Tottenham, I don't know what they are doing, playing like they have against Burnley and now Manchester United for the rest of the season will get the relegated. Tottenham should be better than that, they have a job on just to survive and that can't be pleasing their fans, in a season they thought they would challenge the top four.


FA Cup fifth-round draw:

Sheff Utd v Hull
Watford v Chelsea
West Ham v Middlesbrough
Sunderland/Blackburn v Coventry
Derby/Nott'm For v Man Utd
Swansea v Fulham
Liverpool/Everton v Doncaster/Aston Villa
Cardiff/Arsenal v West Brom/Burnley

Ties to be played on 14/15/16 February

No really exciting ties, will be better once it is complete after the replays.
 
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Psst! I edited the draw into the first post as it was made...
 
Ok, never looked at the first post, just the last time someone posted, so I thought no could of had the chance to post it. If you are posting the draw, I'll leave you to it in the future.
 
Aye - and I'll torture then kill anyone who gets in my way.

Bing. Bong. Bing. Bong. Bing.
 
Well there is little to talk about from the replay's, a good win for Burnley, beating another Premiership team, ok it was only West Brom, but a good result anyway.
The Merseyside derby though was shocking, it was a bad game and not at all a good representation of the usual quality of these teams. Congratulations to Everton though, even if the goal was lucky. By the way, who told Liverpool fans it was funny or ok to throw things on the pitch, even if it was just socks. Doing that to insults your oppenents is just babyish and pathetic. Why do they do this and how come it is allowed and accepted.
 
West Ham v Middlesbrough IS a good tie. Seriously, what were you thinking when you said there weren't any good ties, Ash?
 
Was anyone else pissed having watched the entire Liverpool derby, only for it to cut to adverts just before a goal was scored?
 
I got the goal too, the adverts started but it cut back qucikly and I saw the cross and the goal.
 
I saw the goal too, I don't believe the excuse of automated adverts either, someone messed up, itv's coverage of this and the Champions League is a joke, this is not the first time adverts have come on during the game and it won't be the last.

C-ZETA, do you really think West Ham vs Middlesbrough will be a good match, what do you base that on? Mind you I would have picked Man Utd vs Tottenham and Liverpool vs Everton as the pick of the last round, they were both rubbish, so what do I know.
 

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