League Cup Third Round - Middlesbrough (H)

[ADVILLAFAN]

The game has not been selected for Sky Sports coverage.

I for one am shocked at this news

[cdbearsfan]

I very much doubt it was fixed, as some have suggested. However, it is still ludicrous that it wasn't actually televised, or at least streamed, live so as to avoid any such suspicion.

This competition has been so full of fuck ups, I'm starting to think Villa might win it!

I thought that the draw was streamed on the sponsor's website or Twitter feed

The ties were updated via Twitter but you couldn't actually see the live video of somebody picking balls out of a bag/hat, as far as I know.

[Dave Wall]

How about the classic Zenith Data Systems semi final clash vs Boro at a very wet VP.
Ah the memories.......

Never seen so much rain in my life 

[Clampy]

How about the classic Zenith Data Systems semi final clash vs Boro at a very wet VP.
Ah the memories.......

Never seen so much rain in my life 

I remember that game well. I was at the 2nd leg as well, there wasn't many of us.

[Hookeysmith]

No fear - our man Dr Toney was there to see over things

[Mortimer's Bear]

Did you make the pot?

I think I went in-off

[waynejames]

How about the classic Zenith Data Systems semi final clash vs Boro at a very wet VP.
Ah the memories.......

Never seen so much rain in my life 

I remember that game well. I was at the 2nd leg as well, there wasn't many of us.

Two wettest games at VP I can remember and I'd imagine there has been many.
Boro Zenith Data Systems
Port Vale FA Cup

[in exile]

I've had a season ticket since 1992 and the only thing I remember about any Boro game at VP is their fans smashing the Witton Arms up about 15 years ago. I was playing pool in there at the time as a paving slab came through the window and landed on the table.

I'm crap at pool too but I don't make up excuses like yours!

[Villa Lew]

We're going to be up against the Mighty Adama Traore, if he can get a game, not to mention Rudy.

[in exile]

We're going to be up against the Mighty Adama Traore, if he can get a game, not to mention Rudy.

Better deploy ball boys on the roof of The Holte and the North Stand then

[Drummond]

We're going to be up against the Mighty Adama Traore, if he can get a game, not to mention Rudy.

Nah, he'll be in Leeds by then.

[PeterWithesShin]

I very much doubt it was fixed, as some have suggested. However, it is still ludicrous that it wasn't actually televised, or at least streamed, live so as to avoid any such suspicion.

This competition has been so full of fuck ups, I'm starting to think Villa might win it!

I thought that the draw was streamed on the sponsor's website or Twitter feed

Nope, I 'watched' it on the Twitter feed. A 2-3 minute wait for each tie to be announced as someone had to knock up an image each time. Some going to do 3 draws and all of them are a mess.

[olaftab]

I think all of you who stayed up to follow the draw live should be given a free ticket  by the Club.

[UK Redsox]

I think all of you who stayed up to follow the draw live should be given a free ticket  by the Club.

Seeing as Mr Shin is basically nocturnal, I'm sure that supports Owls over Gibbons

[Villa75]

How about the classic Zenith Data Systems semi final clash vs Boro at a very wet VP.
Ah the memories.......

Never seen so much rain in my life 

Rain!

You should have been away at Southampton in the League Cup, Nov 1986!

Lost 2-1. Kept in the dog pen at the end, whilst the heavens continued to dump, what seemed like, a years worth of rain in one night.

The only time I had to pull over when driving home, due to torrential rain and, literally, not being able to see past the windscreen!

Some days I feel like I'm still drying out.

Ah. Those heady days before responsibilities and large mortgages.