FA Cup 2014/15

[ChesterDave]

Starts tomorrow with the extra preliminary round!

The first 368 teams (of 736) play 184 fixtures with the winners joined by 136 more teams in two weeks time.

Teams taking part tomorrow are from the 9th and 10th teir of the football pyramid and one team in particular?

Jarrow Roofing Boldon Community Association FC!

Richie McLoughlin is their founder, chairman, treasurer, manager, groundsman, chief scout, repairman and main sponsor. He built the stands, clubhouse, and the dressing rooms.

Oh, and his wife runs the tea bar too

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28734169

[Bender]

FA Cup football returns to BBC TV this season.....

FA Cup football is returning to BBC television this season after the broadcaster made a new four-year deal with BT Sport.

16 live matches will air on TV, while BBC Radio 5Live and local radio will broadcast live commentaries.

All the goals of the competition will be available to watch on the BBC Sport website.

Coverage starts this Monday, October 27 with Mark Chapman presenting the first round FA Cup draw live from St George's Park.

The draw will be shown on BBC Two and broadcast on 5Live at 7pm.


The deal for the BBC to broadcast the competition will last until 2018.

link

[ChesterDave]

7pm tonight on BBC 2 - first round proper draw

1 - Accrington Stanley
2 - AFC Wimbledon
3 - Barnsley
4 - Bradford
5 - Bristol City
6 - Burton Albion
7 - Bury
8 - Cambridge
9 - Carlisle
10 - Cheltenham
11 - Chesterfield
12 - Colchester
13 - Coventry
14 - Crawley
15 - Crewe
16 - Dagenham & Redbridge
17 - Doncaster
18 - Exeter
19 - Fleetwood
20 - Gillingham
21 - Hartlepool
22 - Leyton Orient
23 - Luton
24 - Mansfield
25 - MK Dons
26 - Morecambe
27 - Newport
28 - Northampton
29 - Notts County
30 - Oldham
31 - Oxford
32 - Peterborough
33 - Plymouth
34 - Port Vale
35 - Portsmouth
36 - Preston
37 - Rochdale
38 - Scunthorpe
39 - Sheffield United
40 - Shrewsbury
41 - Southend
42 - Stevenage
43 - Swindon
44 - Tranmere
45 - Walsall
46 - Wycombe
47 - Yeovil
48 - York City
49 - Spennymoor Town or AFC Telford
50 - AFC Fylde
51 - Grimsby
52 - Norton or Shildon
53 - Warrington Town
54 - Alfreton or Lincoln
55 - Macclesfield or Wrexham
56 - Chorley or Halifax
57 - Altrincham
58 - Blyth Spartans
59 - Chester
60 - Gateshead
61 - Tamworth or Southport
62 - Bristol Rovers
63 - East Thurrock
64 - Forest Green Rovers
65 - Dartford
66 - Maidstone
67 - Gosport Borough
68 - Weston-Super-Mare
69 - Eastbourne Borough or Dover Athletic
70 - Weymouth or Braintree
71 - Worcester City
72 - Canvey Island or Havant & Waterlooville
73 - Concord Rangers
74 - Basingstoke or Harrow Borough
75 - Aldershot
76 - Eastleigh
77 - Bromley
78 - Chelmsford or Barnet
79 - Nuneaton or Hemel Hempstead
80 - Woking

[Norbs]

Flippin Dartford

[Norbs]

Excited about this tomorrow. Bromley were bought for £2.8m last year and have big ambitions. Bromley is London's 5th most populous borough and has no one in the top 5 tiers represented.

If they make it in to the 2nd round it'll be the first time since 1945

[ChesterDave]

HT in Warrington v Exeter

Warrington are leading 1-0

For those that didn't know it is on BBC2

[BobTheCharmer]

What a great cup tie. More enjoyable than most top tier football.

[ChesterDave]

Body on the line defending! Throwing themselves in front of everything

[ChesterDave]

FA Cup

[BobTheCharmer]

That's why I fell in love with football all those years ago. If only our useless ****s were as commited in defence as those boys!

[Yozza]

Robbie Savage is a moron - how the **** does he get so much work as a pundit / commentator

[BobTheCharmer]

So how many people watched this? A real game of football. Some hard tackles. Mostly fair tackles. Defending for their lives, it was a courageous performance by Warrington. Not even savages commentary could ruin it. If you claim to love the game of football, last night was where the spirit of the game could be found. It highlighted for me what is missing with the overpaid soft ****es conning a living at the top end, integrity and desire. These lads train twice a week fitting around real work and family life. They could not to a man give any more effort for the cause. Why can't pros earning millions put in a fraction of the same effort week on week?

[Norbs]

Excited about this tomorrow. Bromley were bought for £2.8m last year and have big ambitions. Bromley is London's 5th most populous borough and has no one in the top 5 tiers represented.

If they make it in to the 2nd round it'll be the first time since 1945

Great game but ended up losing 3-4. Went ahead in the first few minutes but were sloppy from set pieces. Attendance was 4100, the biggest I've seen in 30 years of going there. I think it even eclipsed the conference playoff semi against AFC Wimbledon a few years back. That crowd was 75% Wimbledon, this one 75% Bromley

[Boogs]

Great game but ended up losing 3-4. Went ahead in the first few minutes but were sloppy from set pieces. Attendance was 4100, the biggest I've seen in 30 years of going there. I think it even eclipsed the conference playoff semi against AFC Wimbledon a few years back. That crowd was 75% Wimbledon, this one 75% Bromley

I bet it was murder around Bromley yesterday then. That width restriction has ****s slowing to a crawl any case but with that many people I bet it was grid lock for hours!

[ChesterDave]

Worcester have won away at Coventry. Another non-league team into the second round draw