Saturday, January 3, 2009

Giant-killers await FA Cup draw

FA Cup

Hartlepool and Nottingham Forest will find out who their FA Cup fourth-round opponents will be when the draw is made on Sunday.

The two sides were the biggest winners in Saturday's third round games.

Forest knocked out big-spending Premier League side Manchester City, while Hartlepool defeated Stoke.

They will be joined in the hat by four non-league sides for the draw at Soho Square, which follows the Gillingham-Aston Villa tie at about 1525 GMT.

The bad weather in England saw four of Saturday's third-round ties postponed, including non-league side Histon's planned game at home to Swansea.

They will be in the hat along with minnows Torquay, Kettering and Blyth, who do not play their game against Blackburn until Monday.

Torquay knocked out Championship side Blackpool and Kettering beat fellow non-leaguers Eastwood Town.

Southend also earned themselves a place in the draw after securing a 1-1 draw away to Chelsea.


Numbers of the teams involved in the fourth-round draw:

1 - Portsmouth or Bristol City
2 - Fulham
3 - Liverpool
4 - Birmingham City or Wolverhampton Wanderers
5 - West Ham United
6 - Middlesbrough
7 - Hull City or Newcastle United
8 - Hartlepool United
9 - Chelsea or Southend United
10 - Nottingham Forest
11 - Cardiff City
12 - Ipswich Town
13 - Charlton Athletic or Norwich City
14 - West Brom or Peterborough United
15 - Torquay United
16 - Leyton Orient or Sheffield United
17 - Southampton or Manchester United
18 - Millwall or Crewe Alexandra
19 - Histon or Swansea City
20 - Derby County
21 - Queens Park Rangers or Burnley
22 - Leicester City or Crystal Palace
23 - Tottenham Hotspur
24 - Cheltenham Town or Doncaster Rovers
25 - Arsenal
26 - Kettering Town
27 - Blyth Spartans or Blackburn Rovers
28 - Everton
29 - Watford
30 - Sunderland
31 - Coventry City
32 - Gillingham or Aston Villa

Fourth-round ties to be played on the weekend of 24 January

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