FA Cup Round Up

Hull, Everton, Newcastle, West Brom, out while Arsenal hang on

Well the joy of the FA Cup like every other knockout competition is the ‘rare’ occurrence of the smaller teams beating the supposed bigger ones. I called the rest of the fixtures ‘just fixtures’ yesterday and they proved me wrong. All I know about Stevenage is on Wikipedia yet they beat Newcastle. It seems Chris Hughton wasn’t their only problem after all. Reading beating West Brom didn’t come as much of a surprise cos it could have gone either way.

Stevenage beating Newcastle wouldn’t have been news had Leeds overcome Arsenal at the Emirates. What I thought would be a walkover for the Gunners became a hill which they are yet to overcome. A replay at Elland Road against former giants and current giant killers Leeds United would be the deciding factor. I definitely would not be putting my money on who would go through eventually. Theo Walcott has apologized on his earlier claims for a penalty, it (the penalty) wasn’t given so I wonder what he is trying to prove. If he is doing this so penalty decisions could go his way in the future then good luck to him. If he is trying to become a role model figure for younger footballers I wish him more luck. In the end he got a legitimate penalty which if allowed I think his effort would still

have been saved by Kasper Schmeichel.

Well, that’s all for now, today we expect the big match Manchester United vs Liverpool. Steven Gerrard would be breathing a sigh of relief because the clueless Roy Hodgson would not be in the stadium. He lost his job to Kenny Dalglish who would be in charge of the team till the end of the season. Of course the last sentence is full of clauses which were not public but we wish Mr Dalglish all the luck he’ll need pulling a rolling car uphill. The highlights for yesterday’s matches come in straight away.