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EMIRATES FA CUP FOURTH ROUND REPLAYS BIRMINGHM (0) 2 COVENTRY (0) Dean 90 Bakayoko 50 Bela 120 Biamou 114
Att: 11,680
AET – Score after 90 mins 1-1. Birmingham win 4-1 on penalties. Birmingham away to Leicester in 5th rd CARDIFF (1) 3 READING (0) 3 Murphy 19, 93 Richards 69 Glatzel 54 Rinomhota 79 Meite 116
Att: 4,832
AET – Score after 90 mins 2-2. Reading win 4-1 on penalties.
Reading at home to Sheffield Utd DERBY (2) 4 NORTHMPTN (0) 2 Wisdom 28 Adams 47 Holmes 35 Hoskins 84 (pen) Marriott 51 Att: 15,860 Rooney 77 (pen)
Derby at home to Manchester Utd LIVERPOOL (0) 1 SHRWSBURY (0) 0 Williams 75 (og)
Liverpool away to Chelsea OXFORD UTD (0) 2 NEWCASTLE (2) 3 Kelly 84 S Longstaff 15 Holland 90 Joelinton 30 Saint-Maximin 116 Att: 11,520
AET – Score after 90 mins 2-2. Newcastle away to West Brom
SKY BET LEAGUE ONE TRANMERE (0) 0 DONCASTER (0)3 Ramsey 54, 75 Okenabirhie 84
P W D L F A Pts Rotherham 29 16 5 8 53 30 53 Wycombe 29 14 8 7 36 34 50 Peterborough 30 14 7 9 56 37 49 Ipswich 29 13 9 7 41 29 48 Coventry 27 12 12 3 38 27 48 Portsmouth 27 13 8 6 41 29 47 Sunderland 28 12 9 7 37 26 45 Oxford Utd 27 12 8 7 45 27 44 Doncaster 28 12 8 8 43 27 44 Fleetwood 27 11 9 7 41 33 42 Burton Albion 28 11 8 9 39 36 41 Gillingham 28 9 12 7 33 27 39 Bristol Rovers 28 10 8 10 32 38 38 Lincoln City 30 11 4 15 37 38 37 Blackpool 27 8 10 9 34 33 34 Shrewsbury 27 8 10 9 24 31 34 Accrington 29 8 9 12 39 43 33 Rochdale 29 9 5 15 34 47 32 MK Dons 29 9 4 16 31 40 31 AFC Wimbledon 28 7 7 14 34 42 28 Tranmere 28 5 7 16 28 51 22 Southend 28 3 7 18 32 70 16 Bolton 26 5 8 13 22 55 11 LEASING.COM TROPHY
QUARTER-FINAL NEWPORT (1) 1 LEICESTER U21 (0)0 Bennett 13 Att: 1,357
VANARAMA NATIONAL LGE DOVER (1) 2 BARROW (0)
De Havilland 18 Rooney 81 (pen) Woods 88 Att: 972
TOP 8 P W D L F A Pts Barrow 33 19 6 8 63 34 63 Harrogate 33 16 8 9 50 40 56 FC Halifax 33 16 7 10 49 45 55 Yeovil 33 15 9 9 57 40 54 Boreham Wood 32 14 10 8 48 34 52 Notts County 32 13 11 8 49 33 50 Bromley 33 14 8 11 54 45 50 Dover 33 14 8 11 43 42 50 North: Altrincham 5 Telford 2. South: Hungerford 0 Dorking 1.
(7.45 unless stated)
Coral World Grand Prix (Cheltenham, 1pm). 2 1
ONE-DAY MATCH, Carrara Cricket Australia XI 179 (46.4 overs, Crone 66, Lawrence 4-28); England Lions 180-6 (41 overs). England Lions win by 4 wickets.
CORAL WORLD GRAND PRIX, Cheltenham, 1st Round: G Wilson (Eng) bt Y Zhou (Chn) 4-1, X Guodong (Chn) bt M Selby (Eng) 4-3, S Donaldson (Sco) bt D Junhui (Chn) 4-0; J Perry (Eng) bt A Carter (Eng) 4-2, G Dott (Sco) bt K Maflin (Nor) 4-1, N Robertson (Aus) bt M Holt (Eng) 4-3, J Trump (Eng) bt H Li (Chn) 4-1, L Wenbo (Chn) bt M Allen (Nir) 4-2.
One-Day Match: Cricket Australia XI v England Lions (Carrara, 11.30pm).
The Emirates FA Cup Fourth Round Replay Tottenham v Southampton Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership Aberdeen v St Johnstone Hearts v Kilmarnock Motherwell v Celtic Rangers v Hibernian
Ross County v Livingston St Mirren v Hamilton Vanarama National South Havant & W v Weymouth
Kelly 84, Holland 90+4
IN the city of dreaming spires, Steve Bruce’s reverie turned into a nightmare – and then to fantasy.
Two up inside half an hour, the Toon boss was cruising towards the Toon’s first trip to Wembley in 20 years.
But Oxford hit back and it took a thunderous winner, four minutes from the end of extratime, by sub Allan SaintMaximin to send the Magpies into the fifth round for the first time in 14 years.
From Hereford to Stevenage
S Longstaff 15, Joelinton 30, Saint-Maximin 116 and Oxford – as recently as three years ago under Rafa Benitez there was 3-0 humiliation by League One opposition at the Kassam – the Toon arrived in the land of Varsity swots with a cup record which read like a threatening letter.
Normally, when Wembley beckons, no one veers as hopelessly off-road or does a trip down Misery Lane quite like the Geordie nation.
Maybe, just maybe, the penny – stuck in the fruit machine for so long – has finally dropped.
Newcastle had not gone beyond the fourth round since 2006, a backhanded tribute to Mike Ashley’s ownership if ever there was one.
And the Kassam – its three stands and a car park will look nice when it is finished – is the sort of minefield where they have turned embarrassment into an art form.
Irrespective of his overtures to sell the club, the noisy legions of pilgrims from Tyneside continue to cut Ashley no slack.
They still plead with him to sell up by belting out an unflattering refrain about his girth, London roots and
OXFORD:
NEWCASTLE:
REFEREE: parentage. And in all likelihood, until a Saudi prince – or any other gilded suitor – finds £350million down the back of the sofa, Newcastle will remain a club tethered to mediocrity.
But they have, at least, heeded their manager’s call to give the cup a full swing of the bat this time.
They were assertive, aggressive and the Magpies’ endeavour was rewarded inside 15 minutes.
Miguel Almiron’s left-wing cross was reeled in by £40m Joelinton and, although the Brazilian enigma was crowded out, Sean Longstaff managed to manufacture half a yard of space to unleash a fierce shot into the top corner from 18 yards.
Newcastle should have doubled their advantage within 90 seconds, only for Joelinton to lift his finish wastefully over the top from Nabil Bentaleb’s cross.
But the Toon’s record signing was not to be denied for long, racing clear on to Bentaleb’s long ball over the top to beat the retreating Simon Eastwood comfortably.
You know it’s not going to be your night when an expensive
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