Midweek Football - 22nd - 24th September - EFL Cup

[biggeordiedave]

Tuesday 22nd September

Leyton Orient vs Spurs (postponed)
Newport vs Watford
West Brom vs Brentford
West Ham vs Hull
Luton vs Man Utd (Sky)

Wednesday 23rd September
Fulham vs Sheff Wed
Millwall vs Burnley
Preston vs Brighton
Stoke vs Gillingham
Chelsea vs Barnsley
Fleetwood vs Everton (Sky)
Leicester vs Arsenal
Morecambe vs Newcastle

Thursday 24th September

Bristol City vs Aston Villa
Lincoln vs Liverpool (Sky)
Man City vs Bournemouth

[biggeordiedave]

Newport beating Watford 2-0 at HT. That means that we need to beat Morecambe and most likely Newport to secure a place in the quarter finals!

[biggeordiedave]

2 - 1

[Blue & Maroon]

3 1 Newport cant wait to f*** up tomorrow !

[UlversToon]

3 1 Newport cant wait to **** up tomorrow !

Even if we don't f*** up tomorrow we probably will next week!

[beatski]

It would be just my luck for Newcastle to play Newport and there not be fans allowed in, considering I live about 20 mins from their ground.
Still, they could always save me that particular disappointment and dissapoint me tomorrow instead.

[krully]

It would be just my luck for Newcastle to play Newport and there not be fans allowed in, considering I live about 20 mins from their ground.
Still, they could always save me that particular disappointment and dissapoint me tomorrow instead.

You can go to the grounds and set off a few fireworks as Newcastle marches towards domestic silverware

[biggeordiedave]

If we won the EFL Cup I can just imagine the headlines.

NEWCASTLE FINALLY WIN TROPHY AFTER EASY CUP RUN

[bodacious benny]

I'm still basking in the glory of last years run to the FA Cup QF, it's what fans dream of

[beatski]

I'm still basking in the glory of last years run to the FA Cup QF, it's what fans dream of

At least we went out in style

[bodacious benny]

I'm still basking in the glory of last years run to the FA Cup QF, it's what fans dream of

At least we went out in style

Technically we played the required amount of games to consider ourselves finalists

3rd round - Game 1
3rd round replay - Game 2
4th round - Game 3
4th round replay - Game 4
5th round - Game 5
Quarter Final - Game 6

The winners (Arsenal) played 6 games too so we were pretty much finalists

SpoilerShow

Lets forget that some sides have to play about 5-6 games just to get to Round 1

[overseasTOON]

Hopefully we can keep a clean sheet for the first 7 minutes tonight.

[bodacious benny]

Wouldn’t mind a few PL clubs going out but Chelsea, Everton, Brighton and Burnley all winning. And Fulham too.

[bodacious benny]

Pickford fuckup again for Everton

[biggeordiedave]

Pickford fuckup again for Everton

3-2 now

[bodacious benny]

Hahaha his tiny t-Rex arms flapping aimlessly!

[ALF]

Liam Delap(son of Rory) has scored for Man City. I feel old.

[bodacious benny]

Liam Delap(son of Rory) has scored for Man City. I feel old.

Saw he was on the bench v wolves. Bet he doesn’t take throws like His old man. Liverpool currently four nil up against Lincoln heading into half-time, they better not be trying to beat our seven goals from last night…

[UlversToon]

Tottenham have been given a bye into the Carabao Cup fourth round after their tie with Leyton Orient was called off when a number of Orient's players tested positive for Covid-19.

The English Football League decided the League Two club must forfeit the tie having been unable to play the fixture, in line with competition rules.

[bodacious benny]

That’s fair enough. I don’t know the details but apparently spurs offered to pay for testing?

The crazy thing is, clubs in the lower leagues have different (less frequent) testing requirements to PL clubs...how stupid having 2 sets of rules for one competition where sides are very likely to draw each other. There’s enough money in the game to cover testing for lower league clubs.