FA Cup round 3 TV matches are...

Friday 4 January 2019
Tranmere Rovers or Southport v Tottenham Hotspur (7.45pm)

Saturday 5 January 2019
Manchester United v Reading (12.30pm)
Solihull Moors or Blackpool v Arsenal (5.30pm)

Sunday 6 January 2019
Woking v Watford (2pm)
Wrexham or Newport County v Leicester City (4.30pm)

Monday 7 January 2019
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Liverpool (7.45pm)
 
So it’s us, Forest, Leeds and Oldham all in West London on the same day then, hmmm....
 
They couldn't pick a more unimaginative game than the all PL tie Wolves vs Liverpool either. Whilst both teams will be attacking there must have been another tie that is more representative of what the 3rd Round of the FA Cup means.
probably be a number of each clubs U23 squads playing... thatll give the television pundits something extra to wax lyrical about
 
They couldn't pick a more unimaginative game than the all PL tie Wolves vs Liverpool either. Whilst both teams will be attacking there must have been another tie that is more representative of what the 3rd Round of the FA Cup means.

Except there isn't really, is there?

The only other Premiership teams away to lower league opposition are Cardiff & Huddersfield (neither of whom is exactly a giant to be killed) and Southampton (who are away to Derby, in what is really - given the league placings - a game between equals).

All the other Premiership teams are at home, playing games you would expect them to win comfortably (or there's Bournemouth vs. Brighton).

I actually think, with the exception of the annual pointless Man U-in-the-3rd-Round love in, they've picked the right games this time round.
 
Except there isn't really, is there?

The only other Premiership teams away to lower league opposition are Cardiff & Huddersfield (neither of whom is exactly a giant to be killed) and Southampton (who are away to Derby, in what is really - given the league placings - a game between equals).

All the other Premiership teams are at home, playing games you would expect them to win comfortably (or there's Bournemouth vs. Brighton).

I actually think, with the exception of the annual pointless Man U-in-the-3rd-Round love in, they've picked the right games this time round.

Lower league team Vs Cardiff or Huddersfield is far better than Wolves 2nd XI Vs Liverpool 2nd XI.
 
Why show PL v PL? Are they not on TV every week? Surely showing games that only happen in the FA cup is the better option?

Yes they are ..... if you have sky. The BBC / BT will nearly always pick an all-PL cup game for that reason (& Man U v whoever or course). Can understand why BT do it because they are a subscription channel and they obviously think it will improve ratings, but to my mind, the BBC should always show the lowest ranked teams in the completion up to Round 4 at least.
 
why show a club in decline every time against a relegation threatened side from a lower league

i would imagine gills v cardiff will be on bbc wales?
 
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