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Cup Fever!

D djb38 I have never had an inplay bet so I'm afraid your inplay stats would be gobblydegook to me. 90% of the time the favoured team wins in the cup, less so in the league, Man utd didn't beat Cambridge because they fielded not only a weakened team but a team that was unfamiliar to each other, Chelsea & ManCity also did the same. West Ham tomorrow will I think field close to their full strength side as will Bristol City, WH will not go down, will not win the league so have nothing else to play for, Bristol City on the other hand are fighting for automatic promotion from their division, a cup run would benefit them only montarily, I'm sure they dont think they can actually win the cup but they are probably odds on for an automatic promotion IF they dont have too many other distractions, I believe they are 1 game away from the JPT Final with a 4-2 lead to take into the 2nd leg at home. They'll have a big day out at Wembley in the JPT Final so why jeopodise promotion with a prolonged but ultimately fruitless FA Cup run. Arsenal wont/cant win the premiership, but can win the CL & the FA Cup last thing they want is being dragged into cup replays so they'll want to beat Brighton 1st time of asking, Brighton on the other hand are 6 points above the relegation zone but a probable 20 points from safety with only 19 games remaining & theyre only averaging just over 1point a game so unless they get a league run together theyre in trouble & an FA Cup run would make things more difficult. I'd honestly be willing to bet the club chairman have made veiled comments to managers along the lines "cup runs are nice but the league is more important". Of course for Brighton & Bristol as you say in the cold light of day players will fancy roughing up the big boys so may cause an upset but I honestly dont think they will.
Sorry for sounding like a MOTD pundit
 
btw my thoughts on Man City were more because of their midweek jaunt then travelling arrangements, I honestly would never have thought Man Utd would draw or Chelsea would lose. I explained my Liverpool thoughts but I will say if they lose on Tuesday & West Ham win comfortably tomorrow, I wouldn't bet on a Liverpool win next Saturday obviously subject to injuries & suspensions. I will give you my views on Spurs after wednesdays game but at the moment it would veer towards WBA not winning as Spurs are a very good counter attacking side & still foolishly think they can make top 4
 
It appears I was right with my thoughts, West Ham are playing a full strength team BECAUSE of yesterdays upsets. Sam Allardyce has admitted he would have selected a different team had it not been for yesterdays results.
No team from the top10 has so far won in the 4th round so now instead of being also rans WHU will now be 3rd or 4th favs a major scalp for Bristol City but a major incentive for WHU
 
Glad to see that this thread is getting plenty of positive feedback and some great shouts Larry in particular with the reason why I should lay man City thanks made me a few bob in a game I would have swerved. To all please carry on posting it is what I wanted when I started to exchange thoughts and ideas with people
 
tonyafc tonyafc you should be honoured as I'm a Spurs supporter I rarely converse with our south london rivals(woolwich arsenal). I'll participate where I can but I'm afraid I only know anything about the 4 english divisions
 
Its not the cup but tonight Cambridge play the best team in east london Dagenham & Redbridge :gotcha:, Cambridge played out of their skins on friday but now they've got to do their bread & butter stuff, on Saturday they play in a derby against Luton(I can't see how this is a derby but I'm reliably informed it is) then on following tuesday its up to Old Trafford for a replay against some little northern team:lol:. D & R are rubbish but Cambs aren't a lot better, they'll be cream crackered after friday & regardless of what Richard Money says all the players will be up for the next 2 games & will probably play on auto pilot tonight so its double result DRAW/Dag & Red in my very humble opinion
 
tonyafc tonyafc As much as I love a gooner losing money please don't follow my selections they're just me putting my thought in an open arena. Cambs will still be on cloud 9 & may still have too much for the daggers its just my personal opinion that they'll have their minds on the future instead of the present.
 
no need to say sorry larry you at least had the courage to post a well thought out argument we can't win them all no matter how hard we try anybody who say's otherwise is telling porkie pies,look forward to your future posts.
 
tonyafc tonyafc I don't do laying so you may have misunderstood my message above. I didn't bet it but I would have had 2 bets 1 on the draw the other on a Daggers win, so that bet would have won. As for the Bolton comment I mean't I should have put that up as they're probably in the same mindset as Cambridge
 
Well a small loss of 0.5 points as juve nicked it 1-0 at the death to be fair I thought this was nailed on for an easy juve victory with a high probability of a plus 2 victory for juve I hold my hands up I read this one wrong .
 
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