The draw for the 5th round of the FA Cup, or last sixteen if you want to ramp up the numerics, takes place today at around 11:45 am on ITV, just ahead of the Liverpool v Cardiff tie. Hammers are number 9 in the ball selection, the other main numbers to look out for are: Chelsea number 7, Everton number 8, Tottingham number 11, Liverpool number 12 and Man City number 15.
You can all but guarantee Hammers will get one of those numbers, but for the record the other teams numbers are: 1 Palace, 2 Bournemouth or Borehamwood, 3 Huddersfield, 4 Peterborough, 5 Luton, 6 Southampton, 10 Middlesbrough, 13 Stoke, 14 Forest or Leicester and finally number 16 Norwich.
Hammers were incredibly fortunate NOT to have joined high profile Premier League casualties Arsenal AND Manchester United on football's naughty step, can you imagine the ignominy of NOT being in today's cup draw as a result of having been participants in the FA Cup's greatest EVER upset?
There are some who would say Hammers don't deserve to be in the draw and that plucky little Kiddermister should be there instead, especially those who did the BBC gubfest commentary, particularly ex- Manchester United, Coventry City and Aston Villa forward Dion Dublin, who probably would have got the program banned if the cameras had been on him during the game, such was his almost 'orgasmic' delight in watching Hammers being put to the sword.
In fact Dublin's commentary was SO annoying, that many fans have told us they resorted to watching the game with the volume muted just so they couldn't hear his sycophantic accolades! Kiddy DID do amazingly well, that is beyond contestation and they were rightly praised by both the Hammers players and David Moyes after the game. Hopefully those fans watching in silence will have turned the volume up in the last minutes of normal time and the last minute of extra time just so they could hear the Biased Beeb Clints choke on their own words!
7-8-11-12-15 are the draw numbers to look out for to match with Hammers number 9, a number with added connotations since the transfer window that never was! - Ed
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Still can't believe we got
Still can't believe we got through that round. Kidderminster played so well and our goal was soooo offside. Think that result now tops the defeat to that oft postponed game at Mansfield for sheer embarrassment.
I'm with you deluded
It was terrible but thank god we got through because we would have never heard the end of it....Saints in the next round that's fine,cos if we had of got Luton or Peterborough that would have been our lot!!;)