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FA CUP THIRD ROUND
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Completely deserved win for Macclesfield, remarkable that they are only 14th in National League South. Palace awful, complacency ?
Has to be ranked as one of the biggest ever shocks in FA Cup history. Another reminder as well of how average the EPL is at the moment. |
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Last fa cup winner to lose to a no league team
Palace Thats symentry  |
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The magic of the cup
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The kids that came on for the toffees did well so hope for the future.
Unfortunately having done well to get to penalties they then proceeded to miss their first three, two of which were very poor efforts (Beto and Barry of course  ) , just put your ruddy laces through it ffs ! Sunderland pen takers on the other hand did hammer all three they took in to the net, an object lesson in how to do so. |
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Villa by far the better team here. Only a matter of time before they score again...
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Porro poor turning his back on the Rogers goal instead of going to the man.
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Do Macclesfield get the trophy now until they get beat?
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Palace got what they deserved, no complaints from me.
It was borderline surreal watching them play so badly. |
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Well Palace can concentrate on the League and Europa Conference League now. mesmerised tipped them to win the PL
The ECL is shocking. Mainz are bottom of the Bundesliga. Fiorentina are 2nd bottom of Serie A. Rayo are 6th from bottom of La Liga. Palace have been awful in that so far, losing at home to Larnaca and drawing at home to Kups (who prolly aren't much better than Macclesfield), showing a severe lack of squad depth. Hopefully they can take a leaf out of Spurs and Man U's book and prioritise it as they've got nothing else to play for, and the ECL this year is the weakest version of the new tournament by far. |
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Slippy how many of the first team league team didn't start ?
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Portsmouth lead ARSE
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1-0 pompey arsenal make 10 changes
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I am sorry but Palace losing to the Macc Lads is nowhere near the biggest upset in FA Cup history.
Palace are a mid-table Prem team struggling with a small squad in a season in which they have to play 2 games a week. Macclesfield are really a football league team who have fallen on hard times, which is not unusual I am sad to say. For my money Walsall beating Herbert Chapman's Arsenal in 1933 or Colchester beating Don Revie's Leeds in 1971 are bigger upsets. There is a quantum leap from beating a top division side to beating the team which is the best in the land. Dominating English football as both the Ersenal and Leeds were. And if you go North of the border you have Souness all conquering Rangers team losing to Hamilton Academicals or indeed the infamous 'Super Caley go ballistic Celtic are atrocious' game when Caley Thistle saw off Celtic in 2000. |
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The son of a Spurs player scores for Arsenal
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"Macclesfield are really a football league team" stretching it a bit says my Alty mate ...but yeah I agree
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I hear Martinelli has scored.
Can't keep a good man down I suppose....  |
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It's certainly stretching it a bit - they are 14th in National League North ffs ! They do have a couple of games in hand on those above so could make the play offs with a good run but are currently 22 points off the team in first place.
Yesterdays result certainly IS one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history but such things are subjective of course, however i would certainly say that Colchester beating the mighty Leeds in 71 was the one the whole country was talking about and would get my vote as the biggest ever upset. If you are looking at cold hard facts though , the only real metric you can use is the difference in league placings (117 in Maccs case) between teams which is why the BBC (and others) are describing Macclesfield's win as the biggest shock ever. |
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im surprised ive heard no mention of hereford beating newcastle the last couple of days
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TTT - i've seen Ronnie Radford's goal half a dozen times on the tv since yesterdays result !
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Palace players dont like the cold
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what I had forgot about the hereford match was it was after a draw at Newc
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Manu losing
Must be 1999 |
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Gateshead v Liverpool FC, January 10th 1953
F.A Cup Match info Match:Gateshead vs Liverpool FC Match Score:1-0 (Gateshead wins) Berwick Rangers 1-0 Rangers Scottish Cup First Round Sheilfield Park 28 January, 1967 |
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WELBECK
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1-2.
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Outstanding fight by Man Utd here. They should give the full time job to Fergie's son, Fletcher.
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Worst commentary team in football. Fletcher drains the life out of a game with the endless stats. He even missed the sending off due to another stat that nobody cares about.
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Yeah. I was wondering what was going on when Lacey got the red and the comms didn't react, just made note of it 20 seconds after he had been given the second yellow.
Brighton deserved the win, brilliant goal by Wellbeck. Bizarre United defending. |
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Manchester United have been eliminated from their opening tie in both the FA Cup and League Cup in the same season for the first time since the 1981-82 campaign.
40 game season... Long term benefits. |
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Yep
Can have a PROPER LONG summer Holiday |
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Prepare for yooessayh, and world Cup.
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Only one cup shock today with Mansfield winning at Sheffield United
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Wonder how strong Liverpool will go with today - league seems only playing it out for them this season, FA cup a key target potentially?
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for comparison in palace game the only real ? is where would that palace team yesterday be placed in the pyramid , as paul merson pointed out a month ago, some of these EPL under 21 teams are getting absolutely pummelled when they play EFL lg one and 2 sides in these cup comps,
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I think Liverpool will know they could lose this if they put out a 'junior' side - Barnsley are not that poor to be able to do that.
I'm expecting a fairly strong Liverpool side - they don't have too much distraction from the FA cup this year. |
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In his matchday programme column for the 7.45pm GMT kick-off, the head coach writes:
"Given our position in the Premier League is currently not what we would want it to be, the FA Cup is a competition that gives us a fresh opportunity to build something meaningful" I think he'll want to make certain of progressing, so would be surprised to see heavily weakened side playing. |