By Ian Chadband LONDON (Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur negotiated a potentially tricky FA Cup trip to lowly Colchester United on Saturday with relative ease, winning their fourth-round tie 4-1 thanks largely to a double from Nacer Chadli. Colchester, bottom of the third tier League One, had been hoping to rekindle memories of one of the […]
Aston Villa forgot their Premier League woes and moved into the fourth round of the FA Cup with an unconvincing win over fourth tier Wycombe Wanderers.
REUTERS – Manager Arsene Wenger believes Arsenal’s heavy schedule has helped the side maintain a rich vein of form that continued with a 3-1 victory over Sunderland in an FA Cup third round tie on Saturday. The packed fixture list in England over the Christmas and New Year period has come under fire from several […]
REUTERS – Manager Claudio Ranieri believes he can confidently rotate his thin squad following Sunday’s 2-2 FA Cup draw with Tottenham Hotspur despite eight changes to their starting line-up. Leicester are now winless in four games in all competitions but the Foxes, despite being without Premier League’s joint top scorer Jamie Vardy and midfielder Riyad […]
A cracker of a match between Spurs and Leicester City in a FA Cup tie, 2-2 is how it ended but an event full match. A controversial penalty was awarded to Spurs and Harry Kane converted it to force a replay with Leicester. Twitter reacted in a mix fraction. Here are the tweets https://twitter.com/ScottCK66/status/686244112236941313 There's […]
By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) – It was not a day for FA Cup romantics as Manchester United scrambled past Sheffield United and minor league Eastleigh came within a whisker of causing the third round’s only genuine shock on Saturday. Old Trafford fans endured more than 90 minutes of insipid stalemate before Wayne Rooney’s stoppage-time […]
