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Live - FA Cup quarter-final draw

Premier League and European champions Manchester United will travel to either Swansea City or Fulham in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.

Chelsea face a home tie against either Blackburn Rovers or Coventry City.

Everton will host an all Premier League encounter against either West Ham or Middlesbrough.

The last quarter-final will see either Cardiff City or Arsenal play Sheffield United or Hull City on the weekend of 7 and 8 March.

Blackburn Rovers or Coventry City v Chelsea

Swansea City or Fulham v Manchester United

Cardiff City/Arsenal/Burnley v Sheffield United or Hull City

Everton v West Ham United or Middlesbrough

Ties to be played on 7/8 March

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We at COYI was hoping to the draw selection would give us a match against Sheffield United or Milwall, but we drew Barnsley.

The Draw was as Follows:

Full third round draw:

Games to be played Weekend Jan 3rd - Jan 4th 2008

Portsmouth v Bristol City

Sheffield Wednesday v Fulham

Preston v Liverpool

Birmingham City v Wolves

West Ham United v Barnsley

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Middlesbrough v Barrow

Hull City v Newcastle United

Hartlepool United v Stoke City

Chelsea v Southend

Manchester City v Nottingham Forest

Cardiff City v Reading

Ipswich v Chesterfield or Droylsden

Charlton Athletic v Norwich

West Brom v Peterborough or Tranmere

Torquay v Blackpool

Leyton Orient v Sheffield United

Southampton v Manchester United

Millwall v Carlisle or Crewe

Histon v Swansea City

Forest Green v Derby

QPR v Burnley

Leicester v Crystal Palace

Tottenham v Wigan

Morecambe or Cheltenham v Doncaster Rovers

Arsenal v Plymouth Argyle

Notts County or Kettering Town v Eastwood Town

Bournemouth or Blyth Spartans v Blackburn Rovers

Macclesfield Town v Everton

Watford v Scunthorpe United

Sunderland v Bolton

Coventry City v Kidderminster

Gillingham or Stockport County v Aston Villa

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Carling Cup 08/09 3rd round draw:

Arsenal v Sheffield United
Brighton or Man City v Derby County
Burnley v Fulham
Portsmouth v Chelsea
Blackburn Rovers v Everton
Rotherham United v Southampton
Swansea City v Cardiff City
Ipswich Town v Wigan Athletic
Stoke City v Reading
Leeds United v Hartlepool United
Watford v West Ham United
Manchester United v Middlesbrough
Liverpool v Crewe Alexandra
Aston Villa v Queens Park Rangers
Sunderland v Northampton Town
Newcastle United v Tottenham Hotspur

Matches will be played the week commencing September 22.

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By WSC

The FA Cup final is often said to have a global audience of some improbably huge figure – the current favourite guess is over a billion. In practice this simply means that a significant proportion of the population of each country that takes the live broadcast is presumed to be watching the match. Estimations of the total viewing statistics will be revised downwards this year because the final can’t be presented as a showpiece for some of the best players. Well, good.

In the recent past, the decade-long dominance of the Cup by the current Big Four had prompted concerns about the health of the competition, with attendances generally in decline. Now some at the FA are said to be worried about the diminished global viewing audience for the 2008 final while Sky have long been resigned to a falloff in advertising revenues ever since Manchester United and Chelsea were eliminated in the quarter-finals.
Concerns about profit – how much can be made and how much can be lost – seep into most public discussions about football now. Money’s corrosive influence is embodied by the increasingly absurd chief executive of the Premier League, Richard Scudamore, who continues to pop up with reminders, or warnings, about his Game 39 plan. Meanwhile, several Premier League clubs have justified fielding weakened teams in FA Cup ties on the basis that the first-choice team needs to be saved for League fixtures – avoiding relegation being deemed to be more important than a cup run..

Of course there is monetary value attached to reaching a cup final, not least in boosting the transfer value of the players involved, such as Cardiff’s Joe Ledley and Aaron Ramsey. Any manager who hasn’t taken the FA Cup seriously might feel that he was right if his team stayed Read more The Global Game? Portsmouth Cardiff City West Ham Liverpool

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