FA Cup Review: Shocks, thrillers and hammerings

Football Daily

BBC

Sports, Soccer

4.3 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Former England goalkeepers Rob Green and David James — an FA Cup winner with Portsmouth in 2009 — are joined by journalist Luke Edwards to dissect a fantastic Cup quarter-final weekend.

Arsenal were shocked by second-tier Southampton, Premier League relegation battlers West Ham and Leeds played out a thriller on Sunday afternoon, while Manchester City continued their confident run by humbling Liverpool at the Etihad to put Arne Slot under pressure.

Chelsea did a professional job to put 7 past Port Vale, but a lot of the focus was on Enzo Fernandez’s off-the-pitch comments. Has Liam Rosenior got his approach to it all correct?

Timecodes:

02:46 West Ham v Leeds thriller 04:00 How special is this for Leeds? 08:22 Southampton stun Quadruple-chasing Arsenal 11:00 Southampton's perfect gameplan 12:30 When do players really start to believe within a Cupset? 14:52 Tonda Eckert's incredible story 17:30 How coaches with data backgrounds can convince players 19:40 Are Arsenal in a full-on slide? 22:00 What will it be like in the Arsenal dressing room now? 28:40 Have opponents worked Arteta out? Is there a blueprint to beat Arsenal? 30:00 How can you stop Erling Haaland? Is it possible? 33:10 Why City look 'ominous' again 34:40 Do City look stronger with James Trafford than Donnarumma?! 36:30 Are Liverpool lost under Arne Slot, and is there any way back? 44:40 Half-time teaser 46:40 A good week for Liam Rosenior? 50:40 Port Vale's memorable run

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.2	Welcome to the Wayne Rooney show.
0:09.3	Wayne Rooney, Kay Curd and me, Kelly Somers,
0:11.8	break down the biggest stories in the Premier League and beyond.
0:14.9	He's gone in quite quick, but he hasn't caught him high.
0:18.1	I just don't think it's the red card.
0:19.6	Plus, we'll hear the funniest and most outrageous stories from Wayne's career. I was going into positions and doing things that shouldn't have really been doing, but you do it because you feel like you have to and I helped us drive on and win the FA Club. The Wayne Rooney show. Watch an eye player, listen on Towns. On the Football Daily podcast, FA Cup review. Listen on Sounds. On the Football Daily podcast, FAA Cup Review.
0:40.5	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:43.1	Hello and welcome to the FAC Cup review.
0:45.4	There were two thumpings, a thriller and a shock in amongst the quarterfinals,
0:50.0	and our semi-finalists are confirmed.
0:52.1	Manchester City, Chelsea, second-tier Southampton and Premier League
0:56.4	relegation battlers leads. So many stories in this round, including a dramatic shootout win for
1:02.2	leads on Sunday evening and Southampton's humbling of Premier League leaders Arsenal. But there's
1:08.0	so much more to get into. Even when Chelsea score seven at home,
1:12.8	a player not involved, Enzo Fernandez makes the headline, and Arnie Slot is under increasing
1:19.4	pressure after a humbling for Liverpool at City and a small matter of PSG looming. And for City,
1:27.3	what might this form mean to the Premier League title race?
1:30.3	Joining me to a dissectus hall, FA Cup winning goalkeeper David James and the Telegraph's Northern
1:35.6	Football Writer Luke Edwards. Good evening, guys. How we doing? Very well. David, before we start,
1:43.5	I just wanted to say we represented five-eight of the teams in the quarterfinals, but only one win of the tournament between us, which is, of course, yourself with Portsmouth.
1:54.7	And I've done a little digging.
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