Brighouse to Wembley

**Lord Snooty** · (This post was last modified: 13-02-2015, 23:51 by Lord Snooty.)

Bristol City v West Ham United
The FA Cup 4th round
Sunday January 25th 2:00 ko
at Ashton Gate

The story of Brighouse to Wembley so far:

1st Qualifying round: Brighouse Town 1-2 Ashton Utd
2nd Qualifying round: Ashton United 1-1 Salford City
2nd Qualifying round replay: Salford City 0-1 Ashton United
3rd Qualifying round: Spennymoor Town 1-0 Ashton United
4th Qualifying round: Spennymoor Town 2-2 AFC Telford United
4th Qualifying round replay: AFC Telford United 3-0 Spennymoor Town
1st round: Basingstoke Town 1-1 AFC Telford United
1st round replay: AFC Telford 2-1 Basingstoke Town
2nd round: Bristol City 1-0 AFC Telford
3rd round: Doncaster Rovers 1-1 Bristol City
3rd round replay: Bristol City 2-0 Doncaster Rovers

The FA Cup trail stays in Bristol for the fourth round and along with visitors from East London in the guise of three time Cup winners West Ham United there will be the BBC cameras for the live Sunday afternoon match.
They may have won it three times, but it's 35 years since a Trevor Brooking headed goal beat Arsenal. City have only made it to the final once and that was way back in 1909 when they lost to Manchester United.
This is League One verses the Premier League, but following yesterday's shocks though with Bradford City winning at Chelsea and Middlesbrough winning at Manchester City, the Robins would have to win handsomely for this even to register as a shock on this weekend when the romance of the FA Cup has well and truly been resurrected.

City have injury doubts over forwards Aaron Wilbraham and Kieran Agard and defender James Tavernier is cup-tied after playing for Wigan in the previous round.

West Ham defender James Collins is expected to miss out with a back problem. Striker Diafra Sakho also has a back injury and remains sidelined.

Bristol City squad: Frank Fielding, Mark Little, Derrick Williams, Aden Flint, Karleigh Osborne, Korey Smith, Wade Elliott ©, Matt Smith, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, Scott Wagstaff, Dave Richards, Bobby Reid, Luke Freeman, Jordan Wynter, Greg Cunningham, Aaron Wilbraham, Kieran Agard, Marlon Pack, Luke Aylin, Joe Bryan, George Saville, James Tavernier.

West Ham United squad: Winston Reid, Aaron Cresswell, Kevin Nolan ©, James Tomkins, Matt Jarvis, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Andy Carroll, Stewart Downing, Adrián, Ravel Morrison, Diafra Sakho, Mark Noble, Joey O'Brien, Carl Jenkinson, James Collins, Guy Demel, Morgan Amalfitano, Jussi Jääskeläinen, Diego Poyet, Carlton Cole, Doneil Henry, Alex Song, Enner Valencia, Reece Burke, Dan Potts, Elliot Lee.

**Lord Snooty** · 25-01-2015, 15:51

Bristol City
01 Fielding
22 Ayling
04 Flint
03 Williams
02 Little
07 Smith
12 Saville
23 Bryan
15 Freeman
09 Smith
10 Emmanuel-Thomas

Substitutes
05 Osborne
08 Elliott
11 Wagstaff
13 Richards
17 Cunningham
19 Agard
21 Pack

West Ham United
13 Adrián
18 Jenkinson
02 Reid
05 Tomkins
03 Cresswell
30 Song
16 Noble
11 Downing
04 Nolan
31 E Valencia
09 Carroll

Substitutes
07 Jarvis
15 Sakho
20 Demel
21 Amalfitano
22 Jääskeläinen
23 Poyet
24 Cole

**Lord Snooty** · (This post was last modified: 25-01-2015, 18:00 by Lord Snooty.)

Sakho wins it for the Hammers.

Ft Bristol City 0-1 West Ham

Not bad for a lad who was supposed to be out with a back injury.

**St Charles Owl** · 25-01-2015, 20:18

So the journey finally reaches a team that could actually go all the way this year and win it!!

theo_luddite · 25-01-2015, 20:47

Pathetic turn out of the weekend award goes to Blackburn. Couldn't muster 6000 for a home match. The Chickens took more to Chelski.

**Lord Snooty** · 03-02-2015, 21:43

So our next round will be West Bromwich Albion v West Ham United. Or will it?
FIFA are objecting to the boy Sakho, who scored the goal to knock out Brizzle City, playing in that match when he was allegedly injured and not representing his country at the Africa Cup.

Amelia Chaffinch · 03-02-2015, 21:51

So, if West Ham are kicked out, do Bristol get reinstated or do the Baggies get a bye?

**Ska'dForLife-WBA** · 03-02-2015, 22:11

Good question. In all fairness, Bristol City should get to play us.

**St Charles Owl** · 03-02-2015, 22:35

Or if earlier precedence is applied the WHU v Bristol City game could be replayed like MK Dons v Chezzie!!

**Lord Snooty** · 04-02-2015, 00:01

I think FIFA want them expelled, so that would probably mean Bristol back in. But they will have to make their minds up soon.