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Should we give the FA Cup 7 or even 8 on the magic scale?

Not quite Paul Daniels, but great suprendo vibes at least.

Bottom of League 1, Port Vale in vintage kit beat Sunderland on a sandy old pitch to get to the quarterfinals for the first time since 1954. Newcastle fan Ben Wayne with the crucial goal. Championship Southampton win at Craven Cottage, full of making nine changes, not quite sure why. Elsewhere, Mansfield push Arsenal, Chelsea win at Wrexham, Man City a better than Newcastle, Liverpool

beat Wolves and Leeds East Pass Norwich. Also today we haven't had a pod since Tottenham 1, Crystal Padis 3. The day everyone realised Spurs are getting relegated, still sounds weird to say it out loud. In Fitbar Celtic win the Cup quarterfinal, Ibrox, queues some pretty tense scenes afterwards. the toughest of us wear blue like probalaclavas,

then some EFL, five wins in a row for Coventry with Middlesburg just ahead of the chasing pack. Two wins in a row for Oxford means it's very tight at the bottom. In League one, Lincoln when at Cardiff to go top, there's a five-way bun fight at the top of League two and a very stressful time at the bottom. We'll answer your questions, and that's today's Guardian Football Weekly.

On the panel today, Barry Glendinning, welcome.

Hi, Max.

Sani Richard Vagelo, hello.

Hello.

And from not the top 20, George Ehrlich, all right, George.

Hello.

Let's start then at Vale Park Park. It is still Vail Park, isn't it? It is to me. Anyway, Paul Vail won. Sondland Nill. Paul Vail getting to the quarterfinals for the first time in decades and decades. Sannie, you were there. And sort of quite nice, almost all the ingredients for an upset.

Yeah, I think it was all the ingredients because, yeah, Port Vale Bottom of League 1,

no one expected them to be here in the first place. The match against Bristol City,

which got rearranged because the pitch was deemed unplayable. That got played on Tuesday.

It was at that game as well.

And when it got to extra time, I think everyone in the stadium's heart just sank. Like, you know, we all just wanted this game to end one way or another. So to get through that, Ben Wayne was a scorer there. And then to take it to Sunderland in the way they did was, was brilliant. I spoke to Reggie LaBriess afterwards and he said how the pitch was a leveler, which is, you know, it wasn't level. It was definitely bobbly. But I don't, and this is kind of a wider point, really, because this also feeds into the Mansfield game I was out as well, because he basically said that that kind of made things even. And I'm not sure that Premier League players on a pitch that's a bit patchy and bubbly then means that you're what, the same standard

as of League One, which is kind of where he was coming with. Only two changes from that Sunderland

side. So it was a full strength, pretty much, team. And yeah, Port Vale were fantastic. And it

only had a few days to turn it around as far as getting like the tickets sold and everything. I think they were still selling tickets on like the website for the Peterborough game that was supposed to be that day up until like the Thursday or something. So they were really kind of playing catch up with it. And, you know, a brilliant atmosphere. And you know what it's like when you're not one of those games. There'll be youngsters there. It's the first ever time.

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