Arsenal Beat Huddersfield 2-1, Fulham Prepare for Tottenham Clash

It’s gone from bad to worse to worser for Tottenham Hotspur, as the visitors are now down three goals and a man against Fulham at Craven Cottage. At least this time the goal wasn’t a penalty kick, but it still hasn’t come from open play.

Brede Hangeland was the scorer, putting in the goal with his head from a corner. Danny Murphy is now having the greatest day in the history of football from dead balls, which might be a slight exaggeration. I’m going to pretend I’m not old enough to have seen Juninho play for Lyon.

They took it in the 66th minute, thanks to an Alan Lee header. All of their good work was undone, however, when with less than five minutes to play Bendtner tumbled dramatically over Jamie McCombe, and Fabregas was on hand to fire the Gunners into the fifth round.

Since going down for the second time in the match, the Terriers have had a few chances, including a gorgeous free kick that skimmed the roof of the net, but time is very much running out for the League One side against the Premier League giants here at the Emirates.

For Southampton, Chaplow was the standout, but Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was impressive as well, although he didn’t quite justify the supposed £10M that half the teams in the Premier League are supposedly willing to pay to acquire his services. The Saints played well, and fought hard, but were eventually outclassed, and they only have themselves to blame for an awful error in the buildup to Hernadnez’s goal. Still, Southampton did League One reasonably proud against their illustrious opponents. While the team and fans are contemplating a moral victory, Untied advance to the 5th round on the back of their actual one.

Southampton would have loved a win, but they’ll definitely take a replay at Old Trafford. They’re not out of this game, either, especially considering how poor United’s back four have been, generating two great chances within minutes of Owen’s goal, both from crosses fizzed through the area. The tie is now totally up for grabs - who’s going to be the one to take it?

We have a delayed second half kickoff because Keiran Westwood’s net is broken. This is thrilling stuff. But never fear, the fourth official is on hand to patch up the offending material with some magical tape and we can get back underway.

And now I wish we hadn’t. Birmingham have ‘dominated’ the first ten minutes of the second half, but that’s only because their hideous mistakes are coming higher up the pitch than Coventry’s hideous mistakes. David Bentley is looking pretty lively on the left but Jean Beausejour is having one of the worst games I’ve ever seen from any professional footballer, and I regularly watch Major League Soccer. As I write this, Beausejour nods well wide from ten yards out whilst under no pressure. Nice.

Watford 0-1 Brighton & Hove Albion: A goalkeeping blunder in the first half has League One’s Brighton up on Watford, Ashley Barnes with the goal after Rene Gilmartin failed to deal with his 20-yard shot.

Bolton 0-0 Wigan: The only active Premier League-versus-Premier League match sees a near-full-strength Trotters side hosting a change crew from Roberto Martínez. David Wheater got the start for Owen Coyle.