FA Cup 4th Round draw

[Shaggy]

It will be Saturday 28th January, 12:45 kickoff. If not midday.

It obviously wont be 3pm

Hasn't there been the odd 11am/11.30am kick-off down the years? Sure there has? Wouldn't surprise me if it was that early.

[Liverpool]

best not ill have no chance of making ko

itv hold the cards so it will be sunday and when theyll get decent viewing figures so wont be that early, same as the mancs last weel

[Craig_H]

Hasn't there been the odd 11am/11.30am kick-off down the years? Sure there has? Wouldn't surprise me if it was that early.

Yep, there was the infamous 11:15am kickoff a few years back. Cant remember what happened in the game because i was like a zombie from lack of sleep.

[Craig_H]

best not ill have no chance of making ko

itv hold the cards so it will be sunday and when theyll get decent viewing figures so wont be that early, same as the mancs last weel

Both us and the mancs play on the tuesday after - neither of us will be happy to play sunday.

[Liverpool]

do itv care?
have other teams played within the same time frame this season?

[Craig_H]

Whether they care, i'm not sure. But after the fuss we made over playing City 2 days after our previous game, hopefully that might hold some kind of sway.

If ITV have the option of a Saturday slot, i'm convinced they'll use it. Not sure if they do though.

[Cormack74]

Bloke on YNWA thinks the FA are considering having the tie played behind closed doors....

John Motson said something like "the FA would probably like this game played behind closed doors" on radio 5's monday night club yesterday which is probably where it's come from.

He then went on to say it wont happen (in his opinion obviously).

[Liverpool]

havent shown any games on a Saturday in previous rounds, I doubt espn will be kind enough to swap

[Craig_H]

John Motson said something like "the FA would probably like this game played behind closed doors" on radio 5's monday night club yesterday which is probably where it's come from.

He then went on to say it wont happen (in his opinion obviously).

Hardly sounds like a description of Motson....

I have been just been told by someone who i trust implicitily as telling the truth, and he's in a position to know this.

[Cormack74]

Hardly sounds like a description of Motson....

No but it does sound like the germ of an idea regurgitated in a different form which is what half the internet is about.

[Liverpel]

Yep, there was the infamous 11:15am kickoff a few years back. Cant remember what happened in the game because i was like a zombie from lack of sleep.

Was that the one where Carra scored a brace of own goals?

[Craig_H]

Genuinely cant remember.

[Exiled_red]

Was that the one where Carra scored a brace of own goals?

Yeah September 1999, the day Sami scored his first goal for us and Carragher got 2 OG's

[fah-q]

Hardly sounds like a description of Motson....

Rumour has it that Motty has an enormous wang.

[Cormack74]

Rumour has it that Motty has an enormous wang.

That's the kind of insider information that I was happy to pay for on koptalk.