Cup replay would be on Wednesday

GM Police have obviously liaised with Wigan and agreed that any potential replay would be the following Wednesday. Everton giving fans a heads up is sensible, as 15 years ago many of these games would've been cash on the door, but now there's ticketing to sort out.

I'm all for pointing out when the club falls short, but don't think this is one of those instances.

The fixture list on the website also contains slots for the Semi-Final and Final. I suppose you'll construe that one as sheer arrogance or something?

Mine was 1988. 3rd round drawn away to Sheff Wed. Went to 3 replays. First three games were 1-1, and obviously the 3rd replay was expected to be tight. I'd bunked off school for the afternoon (although the games teacher was a Blue, and gave me a nod and a wink, so I don't really count it as bunking off). Couple of mates fancied it, including a Red, so quick trips home to get changed, I got the tickets for Barnes Travel, and we met in the Brick for a couple of pints.

Got there late due to traffic in Manc - coppers told us we'd missed the first goal, coach dropped us right outside the turnstiles - straight into the child's concession, even though we were 17, and in just in time to see Adrian Heath add to Graeme Sharp's opener. 5-0 at half time with Sharp completing his hatrick and Snodin adding one just before the break.

Then the Amberline coaches arrived. The Hillsborough scoreboard was showing ads, and a fella who come in and stood by us refused to believe we were 5 up. 2nd half was a non-event.

If memory serves me right, the 4th round tie with Middlesborough went to 2 replays, so by the time we played and lost at home to Liverpool in the 5th round, we'd already played enough games to have won the thing.

Those were the days Matt, my memorable replay was Gillingham in 1984, we had to go down there twice following a 0-0 draw at Goodison, it was a Monday night, freezing and snow, terrible journey there and back but worth it when we eventually triumphed 3-0 and went on to win the cup at Wembley. The other replay that stuck out in my mind was when having drawn 0-0 at the Dell we replayed at Goodison where Eamon O'Keefe got the winner - I think it was in extra-time - the club said the crowd was around 35,000 but it seemed like a lot more than that.