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FA Cup Replays

The third round of the FA Cup took place this weekend and it was a weekend full of shocks and thrills. Arsenal were knocked out of the competition, with a 4-2 loss to Nottingham Forest and the biggest shock came when Newport County beat Leeds United 2-1, with the winning goal coming just seconds before the end of the game.

Third round replays will take place Tuesday the 16th and Wednesday the 17th of January, with the following teams battling it out to head into the next round – but who is your money on?

Tuesdays fixtures:

⇒ West Ham v Shrewsbury kicks off at 19:45

⇒ Mansfield v Cardiff City kicks off at 19:45

⇒ Sheffield Wednesday v Carlisle kicks off at 19:45

⇒ Leicester City v Fleetwood kicks off at 19:45

⇒ Reading vs Stevenage kicks off at 20:00

⇒ Chelsea v Norwich City kicks off at 19:45

Wednesdays fixtures:

⇒ Wigan Athletic v Bournemouth kicks off at 19:45

⇒ Swansea City vs Wolves kicks off at 19:45

FA Cup fourth round

The fourth round of the FA Cup will see Manchester United travel to Hush Park, the home to Yeovil Tow the League Two club who have a stadium capacity of just 9,565. This draw, sees Manchester United facing Yeovil Town for the second time in just three years, with has seen the red devils win all three matches, but could it be Yeovil Town’s time to shine?

Manchester City have been drawn away to Cardiff City or Mansfield, two tough cookies that could just put the Premier League giants to the test.

The FA Cup fourth matches will take place on the weekend of the 26th to the 29th of January. The full FA Cup fourth round draw is as follows;

⇒ Sheffield United vs Preston North End

⇒ Norwich or Chelsea vs Newcastle United

⇒ Newport County vs Tottenham Hotspur

⇒ Liverpool vs West Bromwich Albion

⇒ Peterborough vs Fleetwood or Leicester City

⇒ Huddersfield vs Birmingham

⇒ Notts County vs Wolverhampton Wanderers or Swansea City

⇒ Yeovil vs Manchester United

⇒ Hull vs Nottingham Forest

⇒ Bournemouth or Wigan vs Shrewsbury or West Ham

⇒ Middlesbrough vs Brighton

⇒ Southampton vs Watford

⇒ Millwall vs Rochdale

⇒ Cardiff or Mansfield vs Manchester City

⇒ Carlisle or Sheffield Wednesday vs Stevenage or Reading

⇒ MK Dons vs Coventry

Football bets

If you think you know everything there is to know about the teams involved int he FA Cup, you can place your bets at many online sports betting sites, to try and cash in on your knowledge. There are a handful of sports betting sites that will provide plenty of betting markets and ways to win, our favourites being Betfair Sports, 888 Sports, Energy Bet UK and Guts Sports.

Sign up, receive a sports welcome offer of a free bet or a 100% bonus and place your football bets. Guts Sports have odds on the lower league teams to win of up to 3349/1 – this is for Yeovil Town. At the moment, Manchester City are favourites to win with odds of 13/4.

Busy week for betfair with new-advisors and brexit-odds

Betfair have quite a unique niche in the UK online gambling market. They are widely regarded as the UK’s leading betting exchange, and almost everybody in the sports betting industry has heard of them. This week, they are set to enter sports punter’s minds one more, following the announcement that Betfair have just appointed a new governance advisor, and that there have been some interesting wagers staked on Brexit.

The leading UK sportsbook recently announced that Jan Bolz would be taking over as a new Independent Director over at Paddy Power Betfair (PPB). From 2011 until 2016, Mr Bolz served as Chief Executive over at Tipico Sportwetten. In his past, he has always worked with video games developer Electronic Arts, and as Managing Director of the Bertelsmann Music Group in Munich, Germany.

The new Governance Advisor will surely be able to find a way to spice up gameplay over at Betfair, to enable them to continue to compete with other leading UK sportsbooks on the net. However, that isn’t the only piece of news to come out of this week.

Rather surprising set of bets on Brexit at Betfair

Earlier in the week, Betfair announced that they have received a rather surprising set of bets on Brexit. Punters at the UK sportsbook have taken no notice of the passage of the EU Withdrawal Bill and Brexit (which may have major ramifications for UK sports punters) and started wagering money on the UK not leaving the European Union by the March 2019 deadline. In fact, Betfair’s politics section has odds of 4/7, leading many to place bets that there will be a 63% chance that the UK remains part of the EU when the deadline passes.

Despite the sudden turn of events, Betfair spokesperson Katie Baylis commented that “it’s actually seen as more likely by punters that Theresa May will leave her post as Prime Minister before the UK leaves the EU, with odds of that happening currently at 1/2.”

You can get a slice of the action if you decide to sign up and play with Betfair, today, where the UK sportsbook is offering all new players a free £100 bet when they place 5 bets of £10 or more in sporting events (or political bets for that matter).

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