FA Cup 3rd Round Draw | Chelsea (H) | 4:30pm, Sun 8 Jan

[oddfellows]

Crazy

Chavs away 5th Jan League
Chavs home 8th Jan FA Cup
W/c 9th Jan -> Carabao 5th round
Rags away 14th Jan League
Spursy home 19th Jan League
Wolves home 22nd Jan League
W/c 23rd Jan -> Carabao SF 1st leg
28th Jan -> FA Cup 4th round
W/c 30th Jan -> Carabao SF 2nd leg
Spursy away 4th Feb League

 

[deano ou812]

I seem to remember we once beat Birmingham City in both league games and both cups in the same season, was it around the Sven/Hughes era? Or maybe Mancini?

Yeah you could well be right,seem to remember we kept getting Middlesbrough in both cups or maybe my mind is playing tricks again..

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

Nice work for the dippers, either us or Chelsea go out, while their two hated rivals clash at the swamp. They get a home draw against mediocre opposition. Would love to win the fa cup a competition we have not dominated. Not a good draw for us but worse for Chelsea.

 

[LongsightM13]

Yeah you could well be right,seem to remember we kept getting Middlesbrough in both cups or maybe my mind is playing tricks again..

We seemed to play Boro and/or Leicester every season in the cups for a while

 

[bluesmith]

Crazy

Chavs away 5th Jan League
Chavs home 8th Jan FA Cup
W/c 9th Jan -> Carabao 5th round
Rags away 14th Jan League
Spursy home 19th Jan League
Wolves home 22nd Jan League
W/c 23rd Jan -> Carabao SF 1st leg
W/c 30th Jan -> Carabao SF 2nd leg
Spursy away 4th Feb League (or FA Cup 4th round)

Fa Cup 4th round is the 28th Jan.

 

[Cricket Blue]

I think the next thing perhaps is to have a seeding system for future years in rounds 3 and 4 to avoid this situation.
Maybe not all the Premier league clubs but certainly the ones in European competitions.
We will no doubt put a 2nd string side out as will Chelsea so in essence your short changing the competition a little and the fans and some of the matches are rubbish.

 

[Zapcity]

Agree it' not the most exciting of draws.
All Premier League ties in the early rounds (apart from actual derbies maybe) don't really get the adrenaline pumping do they!
Over the past decade we must have played Chelsea in the various Cups more than anyone else(especially the last 4 or 5 seasons in particular)

 

[bluemoon32]

Might as well throw a 3rd round game than play a load of games and then throw the semi final.
Play the kids and tea ladies

 

[xgorton]

Crazy

Chavs away 5th Jan League
Chavs home 8th Jan FA Cup
W/c 9th Jan -> Carabao 5th round
Rags away 14th Jan League
Spursy home 19th Jan League
Wolves home 22nd Jan League
W/c 23rd Jan -> Carabao SF 1st leg
W/c 30th Jan -> Carabao SF 2nd leg
Spursy away 4th Feb League (or FA Cup 4th round)

4th round is 28th January not in February.

 

[Cricket Blue]

Might as well throw a 3rd round game than play a load of games and then throw the semi final.
Play the kids and tea ladies

No thanks be nice to get to Wembley