It was a mixed day for the local sides in the FA Cup 3rd round. Full results as follows:-
Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Manchester City
Crawley Town P-P Bristol Rovers
Bournemouth P-P Burton Albion
Aston Villa 1-2 Sheffield United
Barnsley 1-2 Coventry City
Bolton 2-1 Blackpool
Brighton 1-0 Reading
Bristol City 1-1 Watford
Charlton P-P Oxford United
Doncaster Rovers 2-3 Stevenage
Everton 4-0 QPR
Grimsby Town 2-3 Huddersfield
Ipswich 1-1 Preston
Kidderminster 0-0 Peteborough
Macclesfield 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday
Middlesbrough 0-2 Hull City
Newcastle United 1-2 Cardiff City
Norwich City 1-1 Fulham
Rochdale 2-0 Leeds United
Southampton 4-3 Burnley
Southend United 4-1 Millwall
Stoke City 2-1 Leicester City
West Bromwich Albion 0-2 Crystal Palace
Wigan Athletic 3-3 MK Dons
Yeovil Town 4-0 Leyton Orient
Arsenal 2-0 Tottenham
The scores were coming in thick and fast in all the matches, with real interest in the Southampton v Burnley game and respect to MK Dons, earning a home replay to Wigan in the 6 goal thriller. Cardiff’s first match under new management saw them take the spoils and entry into the 4th round at St James’ Park.
The match that had us talking most was the game at Roots Hall. Floodlight failure and late threats of abandoning the game due to the weather didn’t stop Southend beating opposition from 2 leagues above in the match which ended after the Arsenal SPurs match started.
Leyton Orient didn’t manage to grab any headlines at Yeovil.
The Ryman League programme had very few fixtures surviving the weather, but both Brentwood and Billericay didn’t come home empty handed as they earnt hard fought draws.
Maidstone United 1-1 Hendon
Thamesmead Town 3-3 Billericay Town
Dereham Town 2-2 Brentwood Town
Soham Town Rangers 4-1 Redbridge
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