Get up for the Cup!

It's often said that the FA Cup is the most famous cup competition in the world. Well we all know it’s the return of real football - when the Premier League meet the Football League and where we, the fans get to enjoy clashes of yesteryear!

This year, Setanta will have all the best FA Cup action and it all kicks off this weekend with three great ties- an all Premiership clash this Friday night (January 2nd), a battle between rich and poor on Sunday and then a clash between a minnow from Northumberland and a giant from Lancashire to finish it all off on Monday night.

White Hart Lane will be the place to be on Friday night to watch Harry's Spurs take on Steve Bruce's Wigan.
The question that we all want answering is can Harry take his Cup luck from Pompey to Spurs where he desperately needs to rediscover winning ways with Spurs going the wrong way down the table at the moment.

Then on Sunday, it's a replay of the 1976 FA Cup Final as Manchester United, fresh from their World Club Championship victory head South to take on a very young, inexeperienced and yet exciting Southampton team. Knowing Fergie, he won't want to be embarrassed but he will be looking to play a mixture of youth and experience and with Saints relying on a very young team to play free flowing football, it promises to be an entertaining match and one which I'm sure will have lots of goals in especially if United wear those Grey shirts!

Finally on Monday, we're off up North to see Sam Allardyce's Blackburn Rovers make the tricky trip to Blyth to take on Blyth Spartans fresh from their victory against AFC Bournemouth. Big Sam will want a smooth ride through this game, which has banana skin written all over it- particularly as Rovers have been questionable in defence in their last two matches.

The great thing about the Cup is that you just can't be sure what's going to happen and you can guarantee upsets so stay tuned as Setanta's cameras will be there to capture the highs and the lows from now to the Final.

You can't argue with that!