FA Cup Upsets Game – Round Four
One-off Weekend Game
Here’s a fun competition, and it’s a one-off game, so make a prediction and then sit back and enjoy! It’s a game orientated to your forum, but it’s a game orientated to a few special friendly forums, namely:
Reading - Royals Rendezvous
Blackpool - Back Henry Street
Peterborough – The Posh Forum
Sunderland – Black Cat Chat
Newcastle – Toon Forum
Watford – WFC Forums
WBA – Baggies Zone
Leeds – LUFC Talk
Liverpool – Talk the Reds
Bournemouth - CourtOffside
How do I play, you’ll ask?!
Well, have a look at the teams on the FA Cup Round FOUR programme below - I’d like to invite you to call for just FOUR matches where you see a possible upset on the cards! By upset, it must obviously be a lower league side winning (or at least drawing) against a higher league side. You haven't got to give any score, simply guess the match of the successful 'smaller clubs' or ‘minnow’ teams! If you get it wrong doesn’t matter at all, you don’t get awarded points for that particular game or games – and that will surely apply to all of us.
So … how do you get points?
If in your selected games a lower league side does indeed win you have 3 points. If the lower league side force a replay then it is 1 point (note - doesn’t matter if they later lose the replay). But ... bonus - if you choose an real ‘upset’ (win/draw) – a team from a league TWO tiers OR MORE lower their opponents then those points are DOUBLED.
To help you, use the asterisks by the games list to make an easy-peasy selection:
one asterisk (*) = one tier difference /
two asterisks (**) = two or more tier differences /
Meanwhile “ --- ” on the list of matches means this prediction is not valid, don’t include these options as it’s no cup upset if teams are from the same tier league!
This is the real betting man's stuff - the more you risk with tier difference the more points you get, but there again, an upset is much less likely!! So you need to weigh things up!!
+ NEW! Postponed or Abandoned? In this unlikely event the game is void, but you are awarded one point for the inconvenience!
FOURTH ROUND DRAW
FRIDAY - 29TH JANUARY
* Derby v Manchester United
SATURDAY - 30TH JANUARY
* Arsenal v Burnley
* Bury v Hull City
** Colchester v Tottenham
--- Crystal Palace v Stoke City
--- Bolton v Leeds United
--- Liverpool v West Ham
* Reading v Walsall
** Portsmouth v Bournemouth
* Nottingham Forest v Watford
** Oxford United v Blackburn
* Shrewsbury v Sheffield Wednesday
** West Bromwich v Peterborough
--- Aston Villa v Manchester City
SUNDAY – 31ST JANUARY
** Carlisle v Everton
* MK Dons v Chelsea
Have fun - answers on this thread please - CAREFUL closing time BEFORE KICK-OFF of the first match [ FRIDAY 29th January - 7.55 pm ]
Points and the placings for this comp will appear on this thread within a couple of days after the last match for this round has been played … I’ll give both the complete points for your forum, and the top dozen overall positions on all forums together for even more prestigious bragging rights!
Good luck!
daib0
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My selection is:
** Oxford United v Blackburn
* Derby v Manchester United
* Nottingham Forest v Watford
* Shrewsbury v Sheffield Wednesday
Likewise, you just give your FOUR upsets matches!
FA Cup Upsets Game – Round 4 (Jan 2016)
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FA Cup Upsets Game – Round 4 (Jan 2016)
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Re: FA Cup Upsets Game – Round 4 (Jan 2016)
Portsmouth V Bournemouth
Forest V Watford
Shrews v Wendies
MK Dons v Chelski
Forest V Watford
Shrews v Wendies
MK Dons v Chelski
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Re: FA Cup Upsets Game – Round 4 (Jan 2016)
Derby v Man Utd
Bury v Hull City
Nottingham Forest v Watford
Shrewsbury v Sheffield Wednesday
Bury v Hull City
Nottingham Forest v Watford
Shrewsbury v Sheffield Wednesday
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Re: FA Cup Upsets Game – Round 4 (Jan 2016)
Derby v Scum
Portsmouth v Bournemouth
Carlisle v Everton
Oxford V Blackburn
Portsmouth v Bournemouth
Carlisle v Everton
Oxford V Blackburn
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that's the stuff, keep 'em coming in!
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Re: FA Cup Upsets Game – Round 4 (Jan 2016)
* Reading v Walsall
* Nottingham Forest v Watford
** Oxford United v Blackburn
* Shrewsbury v Sheffield Wednesday
* Nottingham Forest v Watford
** Oxford United v Blackburn
* Shrewsbury v Sheffield Wednesday
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Re: FA Cup Upsets Game – Round 4 (Jan 2016)
my picks for 4th round of cup
** Oxford United v Blackburn
* Derby v Manchester United
* Bury v Hull City
** Portsmouth v Bournemouth
** Oxford United v Blackburn
* Derby v Manchester United
* Bury v Hull City
** Portsmouth v Bournemouth
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Update on entries …
Here’s the totting up at present, I really would like minimum of six per forum! If you’ve passed that, great and of course any other participants equally welcome - and statistically your site will then have more chances of carrying off the overall top placings, –
Watford – WFC Forums 13
Reading – Royals Rendezvous 8
Leeds – LUFC Talk 6
Newcastle – Toon Forum 6
Peterborough – Posh Forum 4
Blackpool – Back Henry Street 3
Liverpool – Talk the Reds 3
Bournemouth – CourtOffside 2
Sunderland – Black Cat Chat 2
W.B.A. - Baggies Zone 1
In your hands! Closing date is FRIDAY before the first kick-off !
Here’s the totting up at present, I really would like minimum of six per forum! If you’ve passed that, great and of course any other participants equally welcome - and statistically your site will then have more chances of carrying off the overall top placings, –
Watford – WFC Forums 13
Reading – Royals Rendezvous 8
Leeds – LUFC Talk 6
Newcastle – Toon Forum 6
Peterborough – Posh Forum 4
Blackpool – Back Henry Street 3
Liverpool – Talk the Reds 3
Bournemouth – CourtOffside 2
Sunderland – Black Cat Chat 2
W.B.A. - Baggies Zone 1
In your hands! Closing date is FRIDAY before the first kick-off !
A friendly Reading FC fan! He is a moderator here: http://www.extremefootballforum.com/forum
Re: FA Cup Upsets Game – Round 4 (Jan 2016)
** Portsmouth v Bournemouth
* Nottingham Forest v Watford
* Derby v Manchester United
* Shrewsbury v Sheffield Wednesday
* Nottingham Forest v Watford
* Derby v Manchester United
* Shrewsbury v Sheffield Wednesday
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Re: FA Cup Upsets Game – Round 4 (Jan 2016)
Bury v Hull
Reading v Walsall
Oxford v Blackburn
Shrewsbury v Sheff Wed
Reading v Walsall
Oxford v Blackburn
Shrewsbury v Sheff Wed