The FA Cup Thread 2010/2011

[Starvinho]

City 1-0 vs Villa and Arsenal 1-0 vs Orient. Shitter.

[DavidMarrio]

Oooooh, I'm excited.

But we've never beaten Arsenal at home.

COOOOOME OOOOOOONNNN YOOOOU OOOOOO'S~!

Unlucky

I've got a theory that Yaya Toure is actually an attacking midfielder pretending to be a defensive mifielder

[MDK]

Wish he was more like NoNo Toure.

Still, 70 minutes left, its doable.

[Pesci]

YaYa is a tank. I don't think he was ever a strict DM, it's just that Barcelona's insaely attacking team made him look like one.

I hope Man City get like 10 or 11 here.

[Starvinho]

I guess we'll be seeing Arsenal in the Quarter's now then, it's 3-0 now.

[Lineker]

Yeah, fuck the FA Cup, the Old Firm has been great so far. No goals but a red for Whittaker, Diouf squaring up to Lennon, almost a brawl in the tunnel at half time....

[brenchill]

Houllier, in my opinion, has made a poor decision in putting such a weakened team out for this game. Using "the league is more important" as an excuse is absolute bollocks. We're 12th in the league, and although it's tight at the bottom realistically it's highly unlikely that we are going to go down. With a Quarter-Final match with Reading at stake, I would of liked to have seen Houllier put a stronger team out.

[brenchill]

Right, so we're resting our "best" players for the upcoming league matches. But lets bring Ashley Young and Downing on when we're 3-0 down for the last 20 minutes. Perfect sense (Y).

[hugobomb]

As a Brum fan can I say how much I've loved the last week

Of course you just watch us go down after this

[MDK]

Oh well, at least we earned some cash. Time for a beer, methinks.

[Lineker]

Arsenal will be missing Fabregas, Szczesny, Fabianski, Walcott, and Song this weekend, although van Persie has been ruled fit.

Cannot wait for them to get knocked out of the third competition in as many weeks. It's going to be magical.

[Baddar]

I fucking hope so - I've bought the rope in case United lose again.

[Guest viperlike]

With up must come the downs in life and i think even though we had a rough week last week that this weekend we can bounce back and once again as United fans become positive beings once again and bask in positivity all weekend after we win in this Quarter Final. Do it for us United, do it for your country but most of all, do it for your fuckin selves!

Arsenal.................just bring it!

[Colly]

With up must come the downs in life and i think even though we had a rough week last week that this weekend we can bounce back and once again as United fans become positive beings once again and bask in positivity all weekend after we win in this Quarter Final. Do it for us United, do it for your country but most of all, do it for your fuckin selves!

Arsenal.................just bring it!

You really are quite annoying aren't you?

[Meacon Keaton]

Stepping in gum is annoying. viperlike goes above and beyond.

[Guest viperlike]

Just speaking from the heart my dudes.

[stokeriño]

The United/Arsenal line-ups look relatively strong (various injuries considered)...although the United midfield has suffered the worst. Rafael - Gibson - O'Shea - Fabio? Bloody hell.

[Lineker]

7 defenders for Utd! Wtf?

Man Utd: Van der Sar, Brown, Smalling, Vidic, Evra, Rafael Da Silva, Gibson, O'Shea, Fabio Da Silva, Rooney, Hernandez. Subs: Kuszczak, Berbatov, Giggs, Scholes, Valencia, Obertan, King.

Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Koscielny, Djourou, Gibbs, Denilson, Diaby, Wilshere, Arshavin, van Persie, Nasri. Subs: Shea, Rosicky, Ramsey, Squillaci, Clichy, Eboue, Chamakh.

Referee: Chris Foy (Merseyside)

[stokeriño]

Three of those are in midfield, if ITV's formation is to be believed.

Or it could be a radical new 7-1-2 (or 7-1-1-1) formation, I suppose.

[Lineker]

Twin wingers, nice.

Valencia on the bench, great to see.