Update - And FA Cup Weekend Once More!

Well Darren Bent had a wonderful start to his Aston Villa career, but without him scoring a hat-trick it meant my bet went by the wayside.

However my Goal-Rush coupon was quite simply exhilarating!  With Aston Villa's match against  Manchester City being the evening kick-off it meant I got to listen to all the action in the other games during our journey up to the ground.  With 20 minutes remaining all teams had scored, with the exception of Hartlepool against Peterborough (and of course the Aston Villa/Manchester City game which was still to kick-off). Sadly my luck was out and the champagn didn't flow.  Results were as follows.

Cardiff City 4-2 Watford City *
Ipswich Town 3-2 Doncaster Rovers *
Portsmouth 2-2 Leeds United *
Peterborough United 4-0 Hartlepool *
Blackpool 1-2 Sunderland
Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City
Reading 1-1 Hull City
Sheffield United 1-2 Norwich City

That leaves my current balance at £28 placed and £18 won.  Lets not forget I still have the Premier League/Championship doubles "still in play"!

And so we move onto this weekend, and its FA Cup action once more!  I'm truly unsure of how events might pan out, and so i'm going for a 3 game 'small' Goal-Rush which incorporates one FA Cup, one Championship and one League One match.  The 'big' Goal-Rush is a 9 game mammoth, as I cross my fingers that the magic of the FA Cup will be about once again.  My coupons will be completed as follows;

Watford v Brighton Hove Albion *
Hull City v Queens Park Rangers *
Rochdale v Charlton Athletic *
Birmingham City v Coventry City
Bolton Wanderers v Wigan Athletic
Sheffield Wednesday v Hereford
Torquay United v Crawley Town
Southampton v Manchester United
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Stoke City

With the FA Cup frequently throwing up bizarre surprise results I am going to place a small accululator, based on 6 matches this weekend.  My six predictions are as follows;

Burnley to beat Burton Albion
Crawley Town to beat Torquay United
Watford to beat Brighton Hove Albion
Tottenham Hotspurs to beat Fulham
Stoke City to beat Wolverhampton Wanderers
Nottingham Forest to beat West Ham United

The above accumulator offers odds of around 200/1.  As always, my fingers are crossed for a champagne filled weekend!