The Athletic. You know, make no mistake, if this ends up being a real sort of tempestuous encounter with a red card or two and a bit of needle in it, then that will carry over to the league game.

It should be a brilliant game to watch for anyone who enjoys watching kind of David and Goliath cup games.

If they stay in the cup, you know, there's no reason why they can't go on a cup to run and

give their fans something to cheer about.

Hello and welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast I'm Dan Bardell and this is the

weekend preview it's time for the Premier League to take a backseat as the

FA Cup fourth round takes centre stage and we're here to look at Manchester

City against Arsenal. Is there a potential giant killing as Leeds travel to

Atkinson Stanley? Preston take on Tottenham and we're also going to have a look

at Brighton and Liverpool as well as a

little look at all the other games there is in the FA Cup fourth round.

As ever I'm joined by George Ellick and Tim Spears and we've got Richard Mofut with us again as well to look at the

FA Cup and everyone okay? Yeah really really good yeah good man excited for the

FA Cup this is where I feel George Ella comes alive because you've got a

mixture of Premier League in

EFL and this is what it is all about. Definitely this year as well because there are

so many EFL teams still in it. We've had a combination of lots of Premier League

teams playing against each other and loads of shocks.

So normally by this stage it's getting a bit boring where it's just Premier League teams against each other,

but we've got non-league sides still in it we've got plenty of you know

League one and League two sides taking on the Premier League so and then you know if

that's not enough loads of League one league two fixtures as well so I'm in

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