FA Cup Reports

burnley 4 grimsby 0
By J Bateman
January 14 2003

Reports on our Nationwide League Division One teams in the FA Cup tonight.

FA Cup Third Round (rearranged)

Norwich 3  Mulryne 57 , 81 McVeigh 71   Brighton 1  Pethick 49 Att: 17,205

Norwich booked a fourth round tie against Dagenham and Redbrigde after getting over an early shock to comfotable overcome fellow Division One side Brighton , it all looked doom and gloom just after the break for Norwich as Brighton stole the lead on 49 minutes , a free kick was sent over from Richard Carpenter but to the horror of Robert Green he fumbled it which dropped to the feet of Robert Pethick who tapped in from almost on the line , the lead didn't last long and it was scored by Phil Mulryne he smashed home the leveller after a great knock down from Iwan Roberts , it was easy street for Norwich now and Brighton had no answer to there second from Paul Mcveigh the top scorer buried a ball into the net from the edge of the area , the game was wrapped up on 81 as Phil Mulryhe grabbed his second and Norwich's third he his free kick was deflected horribly into the net.

FA Cup Third Round  (replays)

Burnley 4  Moore 25 90, Little 79, Blake 86(pen) Grimsby 0 Att: 5,436

Burnley cruised into the next round of the cup with a 4 goal demolision of a poor Grimsby side , Burnley got off the mark on 25 minutes Ian Moore from a goal kick was sent clear and lashed home an unstoppable right foot drive from 25 yards , Grimsby were well in the game into the second half and created a few chances to get themselves level but with 11 minutes left Burnley turned on the style , Glenn Little scored there second he tapped in a easy chance after magical work from Robbie Blake who walked around the Town defence to set Little's chance up , Burnley made it safe on 86 from the penalty spot  -  Dimitrios Papadopoulos was sent sprawling in the box by a clumsy Steve Livingstone and Robbie Blake converted the spot kick  , the rout was finished off when Ian Moore grabbed his second when provided with a one on one he made no mistake to send Burnley through to.

Millwall 3  Claridge 60 pen Robinson 70  Ifill 77 Cambridge 2  Kitson 58 Youngs 61 Att: 7,031

Millwall had to overcome a major scare to progress throught to the fourth round of the FA Cup , a mad three minutes in the second half made this game one of the watchable one's of the evening , Cambridge took the lead from Dave Kitson on 58 minutes he headed home from close range after his first header cannoned off the cross bar , two minutes later Millwall were level when Stevland Angus sent Steve Claridge sprawling in the box , the latter brushed himself down and narrowly beat the Cambridge keeper from the spot , bizzarely The U's were infront again within a minute of Claridge's spot kick a great pass from Kitson found an unmarked Tom Youngs on the back stick and slotted home with ease , but the shock was not going to be as two goals on 70 and 77 sealed the win for The Lions , the first of those two was a Paul Robinson header and the winner was scored from the ever lively Paul Ifill who headed home a Paul Sweeney free kick. 

Reading 1  Aranalde 32 og. Walsall 1  Wrack 7 AET Walsall win 4-1 on pens Att: 8,767

Walsall booked a fourth round tie at home to Wimbledon and are still dreaming of a good cup run which could actually buy them a new pitch ,  the Saddlers got of to a great start on 7 minutes when Darren Wrack headed home from a Darren Bazeley cross , both teams were playing well and chances were few and far between as the defences had the upper hand , Reading finally broke through on 32 minutes when Zigor Aranalde put into his own net when a shot from Newman was on it's way in , Reading went in search of a winner in the second half but Walsall held strong even with 10 men when Ian Roper was strechered off and Walsall had already made 3 subs , extra time came and went and both teams had to suffer the agony of a penalty shoot out.

Penalty Shoot Out - Kick By Kick

Walsall 1-0 Aranalde   (scored)

Walsall 1-0  Butler   (missed)

Walsall 2-0  Zdrilic   (scored)

Walsall 2-1  Cureton  (scored)

Walsall 3-1  Simpson (scored)

Walsall 3-1   Harper  (saved)

Walsall 4-1   Bazeley  (scored)