UP FOR THE CUP PART 4: (Sour Kraut edition)

As of now, Man City are clear favourites to win the cup (2/1) - that seems incredibly disrespectful to Bournemouth (13/2), let alone us (9/2).

Bournemouth aren't in great form and City have the pedigree.

I am feeling a Forest v Villa final

Citeh leading after taking that big lump Haaland out.

I would like this to be a meat grinder into extra time but Muff seems to have run out of steam.

Arse Buckets.

Chicago: Still playing the numbers.

If anyone wants to get sone additional enjoyment out of yesterday’s game can recommend Hurzeler’s sulky teenager act in his post match pores conference. Loads of mono-syllabic answers to perfectly reasonable questions.

McAtee booked, which I think means he is suspended for the semi.

You're really grasping here. Well done.

When do we find out what day the semi is?

I wouldn't book anything you can't cancel but Villa still being in the CL, with a potential semi the following week (even though they probably won't beat PSG) means it's almost certainly Sunday. (Clashing with the marathon those cockney wankers never let you enter.)

Last year dates seem to have been confirmed on the Friday following the qf.

Kick off of the Sunday game was 1530.

It's not shown in that video but I assume Elanga and Aina will be getting life stadium bans for picking up the pyro? Could make team selection a bit tricky for the rest of the season.

I'm sure they'll chuck in a points deduction too.

BBC website is listing our FA Cup semi-final as being the Saturday at 3pm. Is that an announcement I've missed or more likely just a placeholder on the fixtures page?

I thought I'd read somewhere we were anticipating the Sunday because of a Villa game in Europe the following week or something.

Both are listed as 3pm Saturday which I assume is just a place holder.

We're bound to be Sunday because:

Saturday would be much better
We're the bigger game
Villa have a champions league semi final they won't be in on the following Tuesday.

If the Saturday game is 3pm I'll eat my bobble hat.

It's showing both games at 3pm on Saturday. Which would certainly make for an interesting couple of hours but seems unlikely.