Pink Balls - FA Cup 2014

Just glanced up at the TV as Blackburn equalised and thought they were playing with a balloon at first

q offensive to lower-league & non-league teams who will be playing in the FA Cup 2014/15 in the year 2014

good

Who said this thread wasn't open to them?

Burn NBS

Accrington have just tweeted that four of their fans travelled down to Portsmouth yesterday, only for the game to be called off, so Stanley boss James Beattie has sorted them out with four tickets for Southampton v Burnley.

Now that's a gesture.

Paul Robinson's first game for over a year!

shame that only big s/e clubs like southend have the set-up to put a game on today after the weather

Apparently the only games we're getting in the US are Leeds/Rochdale and Grimsby/Huddersfield, good work FOX.

tsk i was hoping for one last look at julio cesar :/

Forgot all about that guy. What is he going to do between losing his Champo place to Rob Green and winning the World Cup with Brazil?

my head keeps singing "Pink Balls" to the tune of "Blurred Lines"

oh that'll help no end, will that

xxp presumably continue to sit around and not accept any generous loan offers idk

quite funny this isnt on telly anywhere really as jc hasnt been on the bench for us nor has ever even once been seen training with the first team anytime to my knowledge - p much the most 'shop window' appearance of all time

gonna have to be a preposterous 0-1 smash and grab alamo classic

Rochdale vs Leeds
Grimsby Town vs Huddersfield Town
Macclesfield Town vs Sheffield Wednesday

appear to be the only games on "tv"

blades 1 up at villa

lambo excuses in early so no worries

see ur mind tells u cupset there but actually look at the teamsheets, whats the fucking difference between the sides

suppose one side does have the budding seeds of young raw talent there at least... long, maguire, baxter...

not like Karl Henry to concede possession leading to a soft goal

no, quite

never seen a cretin like him in all my days

if we do sign jelavic i bet that'll still be the only pass karl ever makes to him

Burnley have just equalised vs Southampton.

...and Solksjaer has won it! (possibly)

Rochdale now two-up against Leeds

can only imagine how numbing Norwich 1 Fulham 1 must've been to watch

slightly less numbing than Villa 1 Sheff Utd 2, fyi

i can see an entertaining side to that one, soz

are you reaching the Deal or No Deal stage yet with Benteke where you're wishing you'd took the banker's last offer?

eh still not really. no reason to suspect Lambert wouldn't have spent the money on arseholes and incompetents. Benteke still not the problem, it's everyone else. Like literally, everyone else. And that's accounting for his poor form and dodgy attitude atm. At least we know for a fact that he can play football quite well, which is more than you can say for any of the rest of them

itv finally showing live footy in ireland (or maybe its just fa cup) oh welp who cares.

Lack of Capoue concerns me.

Yeah midfield is gonna be easy to ruj through and centre halves easy to run behind. Walcott has had so much joy against us these past few years and thatll continue today imo

Does that count as a ruj through by Walcott just then?

Rujful yes

Good match tho

Oooohh

I like benteleb but get him off quick imo

Arsenal looking like a canny unit while we struggle to knit the front four at all, lennon not the player he used be three days ago

Arsenal can fuck right off over the reduced ticket allocation. If there are concerns about segregation they should have built the fucking stadium differently, it's not as if they were unaware of the FA Cup.

just realized i don't need to stream this. didn't know a spurs team could contain so much running

Soldado, cant be more than three inches from a red there

Adebayor isnt gonna play focal point today is he....

Gnabry rose interesting test of each

No fuckin way i just heard that

Never a foul there tbh

This is so much better than what we were watching last month its untrue.

Walker miles out of position.

Arah walker where the fuck do you be lad ffs

Lucky if eriksen gets away with that

Every one of the back four has answers to give on that one really

Does anyone shield it on the run like dembele

spurs passing still glacial

Careless more than the pace of it, which has definitely improved (as has the ambition on the ball)

Back to questioning if a coach has ever asked walker to defend or dawson to stand off the opponent.

That extra man in midfield is really showing.

Not a yellow there?

Clatteburg letting plenty go tbf

xp yeah supply is fitful to our front two now and they're keeping it very easily

Soldado kinda snapping at things now :(

jfc Rose.

vorm.

ah here not the finger lads fuck off

wtf is going on at bramall lane?

4 goals in 3 games for Ideye.

Sweet header from Kramaric but Schwarzer has handed this to Villa.

Enjoyed Pearce and Savage's overlong spiel about how brilliant Given had been, prolonged further by them awkwardly realising the video editors were repeatedly replaying Given almost giving away a goal by fumbling a tame cross, and having to gradually adjust to say he may have been disappointed to have not held the first save because he held himself to such high standards

The only other notable things he did in the match were make a great save and pass the ball to a Leicester player inside the Villa 6 yard area

Feelinng super retro watching Bradford leading Sunderland on a shonky stream on a pitch of almost no green

It isn't the first time Steadinho has made Sunderland look shit against lower league opposition. Bradford have got a very good deal with him, he has been a pivotal player in their money spinning cup run and we were so keen to get shut of him we generously agreed to continue paying the bulk of his wage.

That was the first time I've seen Benteke play in ages. He looks rubbish now.

Wouldn't fancy being a steward at that one

never mind the stewards, what about the poor journalists who have to witness and describe such stomach-churningly horrific scenes

this sort of thing is simply not on :(

Not seen it, but twitter comments suggest it's just a standard celebration pitch invasion. What's wrong with that?

Or did something else happen?

60-odd particularly dense Villa fans invaded the corner of the Holte End after the second goal and were rightly criticised and booed by the other supporters as they were being shepherded back off

There was a full pitch invasion on the final whistle, which is a stupid thing to do for winning a quarter final, but seemingly everyone who works for the BBC appeared to be witnessing a pitch invasion for the first time ever and assumed it was some sort of attempted massacre

http://gyazo.com/587c0a9aeb6e4cac2538f8b800cf93a4

Nult is on the scene and has described the atmosphere as "toxic", and also feels that "sad that would had"

Xpost ffs tho its still only the semi final. Journalist outrage was as OTT as fans reaction, true.

Fabian Delph said he got bit by an overexcited fan I read on Twitter somewhere (McNulty?).

It was the pre-final whistle invasion that I think made the suits nervous. Although none of it seemed too "bad old days". Fuck, they've had a shitsucking season, let them have a release ffs.

thank fuck Nult didn't witness us and Rotherham last year

well how would he tbf

I just imagine a single tear rolling down Nult's face as he watches the fans pouring onto the pitch, repeating the words "will have known" while shaking his head sadly.

was seeing tweets about a pitch invasion, forgot what games where on the day so i had a wee look. fuck me you beat the baggies at home in the cup and youre pitch invasioning. that's about the only thing wrong with it, the proportionality.

lol, fair

I should state before anyone else that in their defence there's no DVD releases yet so ye without sin etc

during a particularly shit period of rangers form in maybe 2006 or so Celtic beat them 2-0 then 3-0 at home, in the league and cup, or the league and league cup, and actually released a DVD "remember, remember our two wins in november". which is sort of beyond parody.

odd that celtic would reference a toast to the burning of a catholic

"a club open to all"

jesus what has happened to skrtel

I'm guessing just a bit of concussion, hoping anyway.

http://www.umaxit.com/index.php/columns/why-aston-villa-fans-are-the-scum-of-the-earth

a sport festooned by irksome scallywags.

All in favour of this statement for new board title say aye

this is great

ref has been flawless except for not sending off Roja and fellaini too

is this Danny Murphy thats a few times he's been a shit cunt on commentary I think I hope he dies

Jamie Carragher @Carra23 · 8m
This is what happens when Fergie is not the manager anymore.

I don't get van Gaal

fellaini and smalling need more time to gel up front

Me neither (xp)

Keane claims van gaal in the door "literally two minutes"

It's come to something when I find myself actually thinking Robbie fucking Savage, Alan Shearer and Phil Neville are talking sense. PN pointing out the obvious there, that the half-time switch of Herrera for Carrick lost the match.

have long insisted michael oliver is the best english referee, seems everyone's catching on

He was amazing tonight, the look to di Maria before second yellowing the fucker was mint

I think that's about the 8th time I've seen Federici do that.

lol

arsenal making a habit of epic semi-final heartbreakings of lower-league opposition

federici presumably will now commit seppuku, or receive an order of exile from berkshire

Iconic shots of a dejected Gerrard enhanced by a huge gobbet of spit stubbornly clinging to his lower lip.

Detestable as Sherwood is, this is sweet.

Honestly I don't think I could cope with watching an Arsenal v Sherwood final.

Detestable as Sherwood is, this is sweet.

YYYYYEP

wdn't want to be a Cheshire-area DJ tonight

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/512/mcs/media/images/82414000/jpg/_82414103_7628a876-6254-43e6-955f-b13a42c9a74b.jpg

I mean, you tell me mate to be honest

Liverpool would've been favourites when the draw was made, but it wasn't a surprise they lost today. Especially with Gerrard starting

Honestly I don't think I could cope with watching an Arsenal v Sherwood final.

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