FA Cup 4th round draw - Palace (a)

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

How do you think they pulled off this deception then ?

Top teams excluding us , freezing cold balls

Us , red hot ball

Slightly shit premier league teams , Luke warm balls

All other teams normal temp balls ?

I'm of the opinion that football is corrupt at some level but you are either joking or very sad to believe that

I think when there is a human element directly involved in the draw (althought I could be argued that Keown & Owen aren't actually human), then it is possible that there could be some from of skulduggery. Heat, cold, weight, and surface finish are all easily detectable by touch. The numbers on the balls is also detectable. We were ball number 8, and Bloton/Palace were ball 28. It would have been easy to differentiate between 1 or 2 numbers on the balls remaining.

Not saying that is what happened, but it is possible.

 

[Burtonblue]

Last ball out
Definitely the one that went in the freezer!

 

[BLS]

Is this a joke. Prior to the draw every man and his dog was saying we're getting those teams away.

Now we haven't its because they didn't really want us too in case we beat them

Jeez really

Eggsactly

 

[BLS]

Does anyone think that someone fired a shot at the 8 ball from the grassy knoll? We have a right to know......................

 

[uptheblues]

Hope it's Bolton, we've not played them for years now!Lot closer than the Ethiad for me- last time I was there I remember Mark Kennedy's screamer and half the home end going up, including me. Reckon they'd give us a huge allocation too to get the coffers in, not like they're going to sell it out

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

Can't see Bolton beating Palace tbh.

 

[St.Pauli support]

Yeah, it's fixed. But you know, Pep was asking for a bottom PL side away match to have more space up front...
Let's do another "West Ham" :)

Just a side note concerning draw odds:
The German cup final takes place in Olympic Stadium of Berlin, home soil of Hertha BSC.
Between 1997 and 2015 they had 45 cup matches - and 4 of them have been at home... but never in a final.

The draw is okay. Good enough to give Pep several options for the line-up in terms of rotation.
Last match of Dinhos ban.

Palace, Selhurst Park : 25,000
Bolton, Macron Stadium: 28,700

 

[Ric]

Not that bad a draw really as we're arguably better away from home at the moment. Hopefully Bolton can win the replay, but even if they don't I doubt Allardyce will go full strength given Palace's perilous league position.

 

[The Riot Club]

Well who'd have believed that, we're drawn away again while the shit and the cockney wankers get easy home ties.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

How do you think they pulled off this deception then ?

Top teams excluding us , freezing cold balls

Us , red hot ball

Slightly shit premier league teams , Luke warm balls

All other teams normal temp balls ?

I'm of the opinion that football is corrupt at some level but you are either joking or very sad to believe that

Wouldn't the red hot ball have rendered the freezing balls redundant?