Post by ITFC Dudette6 on Jan 6, 2007 11:20:18 GMT -1
Saunders Honda Stadium
Saturday 6 January
Third Round
Kick-off: 1500 GMT
Referee: Jon Moss (Yorkshire)
Replay date (if required) : Tues, 16 Jan, 1945 GMT
Coverage on the BBC Sport website, BBC Radio Five Live & highlights on MOTD
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Chester defender Ashley Westwood is a doubt with a hamstring injury and loanee Ryan Semple is back at Lincoln.
Striker Drewe Broughton is back from a loan spell at Boston but he cannot play as he is cup-tied, while Glenn Cronin and Rob Marsh-Evans are injured.
Ipswich could rest Gavin Williams as the midfielder is suffering pain following a hernia operation.
Jon Macken has returned to Crystal Palace and Simon Walton to Charlton after their loan spells ended.
BIG-MATCH FACTS
CHESTER CITY will make FA Cup history when they step out to play Ipswich in this third round tie. They are the first League club to have been re-instated having already been knocked out of the FA Cup. The club from the Roman walled city thought their Cup exploits were over for this season when Bury beat them 3-1 in the second round replay at the Saunders Honda Stadium. But Shakers manager Chris Casper admitted to fielding an ineligible player in Hartlepool's on-loan midfielder Stephen Turnbull, for whom they had not received written permission from the Teessiders to play. The Gigg Lane club were dumped out of the competition, and also lost a subsequent appeal. But Bury's loss is Chester's gain.
It would be totally in keeping with the unpredictable nature of the FA Cup, for Chester now to go and cause an upset by beating Ipswich for the first time in their history. They're competing in the third round for the third year running, but have not been beyond this stage since the 1986-87 season, when they took top flight Sheffield Wednesday to a fourth round replay.
Manager Mark Wright - who lifted the Cup as skipper of Liverpool in 1992 - has seen Chester win four of their last seven in all competitions. However they've also lost the last three on home soil. They followed the 1-3 defeat to Bury in the Cup with successive 0-3 League losses to Macclesfield and Milton Keynes Dons in front of their home supporters, with a play sent off in each.
IPSWICH TOWN are two divisions and 49 places higher on the League ladder than Chester, and are hoping to a berth in the fourth round for the first time in three years. The 1978 winners have not been beyond the last 32 since 1996.
Jim Magilton's side have won every other of their last five club fixtures, but are not due a win if that sequence is to continue, having pulled off a shock 1-0 home victory over Championship table toppers Birmingham last time out. Gavin Williams netted the winner in stoppage time on New Years Day.
The Suffolk club and Chester have never been in the same division in the same season, and their only previous meeting was in the fifth round of the FA Cup on 16 February 1980. John Wark and George Burley scored the goals in a 2-1 victory at Portman Road that ended Chester's club record equalling Cup run, and gave Ipswich a quarter-final tie against Everton at Goodison Park, which the Merseysiders won 2-1.
As well as cheering on Ipswich, I'll be going...
Saturday 6 January
Third Round
Kick-off: 1500 GMT
Referee: Jon Moss (Yorkshire)
Replay date (if required) : Tues, 16 Jan, 1945 GMT
Coverage on the BBC Sport website, BBC Radio Five Live & highlights on MOTD
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Chester defender Ashley Westwood is a doubt with a hamstring injury and loanee Ryan Semple is back at Lincoln.
Striker Drewe Broughton is back from a loan spell at Boston but he cannot play as he is cup-tied, while Glenn Cronin and Rob Marsh-Evans are injured.
Ipswich could rest Gavin Williams as the midfielder is suffering pain following a hernia operation.
Jon Macken has returned to Crystal Palace and Simon Walton to Charlton after their loan spells ended.
BIG-MATCH FACTS
CHESTER CITY will make FA Cup history when they step out to play Ipswich in this third round tie. They are the first League club to have been re-instated having already been knocked out of the FA Cup. The club from the Roman walled city thought their Cup exploits were over for this season when Bury beat them 3-1 in the second round replay at the Saunders Honda Stadium. But Shakers manager Chris Casper admitted to fielding an ineligible player in Hartlepool's on-loan midfielder Stephen Turnbull, for whom they had not received written permission from the Teessiders to play. The Gigg Lane club were dumped out of the competition, and also lost a subsequent appeal. But Bury's loss is Chester's gain.
It would be totally in keeping with the unpredictable nature of the FA Cup, for Chester now to go and cause an upset by beating Ipswich for the first time in their history. They're competing in the third round for the third year running, but have not been beyond this stage since the 1986-87 season, when they took top flight Sheffield Wednesday to a fourth round replay.
Manager Mark Wright - who lifted the Cup as skipper of Liverpool in 1992 - has seen Chester win four of their last seven in all competitions. However they've also lost the last three on home soil. They followed the 1-3 defeat to Bury in the Cup with successive 0-3 League losses to Macclesfield and Milton Keynes Dons in front of their home supporters, with a play sent off in each.
IPSWICH TOWN are two divisions and 49 places higher on the League ladder than Chester, and are hoping to a berth in the fourth round for the first time in three years. The 1978 winners have not been beyond the last 32 since 1996.
Jim Magilton's side have won every other of their last five club fixtures, but are not due a win if that sequence is to continue, having pulled off a shock 1-0 home victory over Championship table toppers Birmingham last time out. Gavin Williams netted the winner in stoppage time on New Years Day.
The Suffolk club and Chester have never been in the same division in the same season, and their only previous meeting was in the fifth round of the FA Cup on 16 February 1980. John Wark and George Burley scored the goals in a 2-1 victory at Portman Road that ended Chester's club record equalling Cup run, and gave Ipswich a quarter-final tie against Everton at Goodison Park, which the Merseysiders won 2-1.
As well as cheering on Ipswich, I'll be going...
Roll on the Twenty20 though! ;D