Arsenal’s FA Cup 5th Round tie against Middlesbrough will be played on Sunday 15 February at 4pm.
The game has been selected for broadcast on BT Sport.
The Gunners haven’t faced Boro in the FA Cup since the Invincibles beat Steve McClaren’s outfit 4-1 at Highbury in January 2004.
On that day Dennis Bergkamp opened the scoring before Freddie Ljungberg, deployed as an unorthodox striker, bagged a brace.
Substitute David Bentley then drew the afternoon’s proceedings to a close with his first goal for the club, niftily chipping Mark Schwarzer from 20-yards. As he celebrated the Highbury crowd serenaded him with a revamped DB10 favourite…’Walking in a Bentley Wonderland.’
We were wrong to do that. Very wrong. On behalf of all Gooners who were there we apologise to Dennis.
FA Cup Fifth Round ties for live broadcast
Saturday 14 February
West Bromwich Albion v West Ham United (12.45pm) – BT Sport
Crystal Palace v Liverpool or Bolton Wanderers (5.30pm) – BT Sport
Sunday 15 February
Aston Villa v Leicester City (12.30pm) – BBC1
Arsenal v Middlesbrough (4pm) – BT Sport
Monday 16 February
Preston North End or Sheffield United v Cambridge United or Manchester United (7.45pm) – BBC1
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Nice i was busy on 14th.
due to work not anyother thing.
Never suspected you were busy with any other thing
You can’t fool me, you were up to any other thing.
3rd match in 8 days. Nobody will feel left out.
Sure feels good the bench is burning with class players we will utilise.
Still seems surreal having this winning streak with Ozil n Walcott fighting for a first team place.
COYG!
Great, we suffer the co commentary hell of either Savage or Owen….
That was my first thought
may be present Savage with a clattering, seeing as he likes it so much..
Far right of the picture, is that Jamie Carragher’s grandad?
That’ll be the Invincibles. No need for the grocer’s apostrophe. I thank you.
You’d think I’d not get that wrong having co-written a book about them. Doh!
You co-wrote a book about apostrophes?
It was brilliant.
Single or double ?
Was just watching the 2003-04 season review the other day. Bentley seemed such a nice promising guy then.
I still can’t get over the fact that Sp*rs paid us a fortune (£8m-ish) when they signed him from Blackburn – bet P-Diddy Hill-Wood cracked open the cigars for that deal.
Yet again TV companies didn’t give a monkeys about the fans.
Think about them poor Middlesbrough fans who will have to get home after the game for work on Monday.
What about those poor Cambridge fans who will have to make it up to Preston or Sheffield on a Monday!
When did TV companies ever care about fans? The issue lies with the FA allowing it, not tv.
So it was you Mr Hound, Well done for coming clean.
All I care about is a win without injury to our team, COYG.
Spare a thought for the Middlesborough folk… two away trips in a row to Eastlands and now to us… cup run of hell for them I suppose. (It will end for them, though) 😉
Savage or Owen = metal rims scrapping the road surface @ 100km/h or labored grunting of a 400 pound, pot bellied trucker in the men’s restroom.
We’ve been having our fixtures shifted to Sundays ever since Wenger started attending Church… Now is that a co-incidence.
😀 Brilliant.
If the quarter finals of the FA cup is also at home/london, then we wont have a fixture outside of london till 17th March (Monaco Away)
This is the second time someone is mentioning that here on Arseblog
Jake Humphrey, Michael Owen, Robbie Savage, Steve McManaman… Enough to bring up my Sunday lunch. Thank God for the mute button and Radio 5.
Fantastic news. Teaching all day on the 14th. The 4:00p start is 8:00a here, so the pub will be open. My whole weekend is set now. Teach on Saturday, drink and cheer Sunday morning, float around on a happy cloud Sunday afternoon. Doesn’t get any better.
Just a day after the election here in Nigeria, that is going to calm some nerves. I mean if we end up beating the boros