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FA Cup fourth round: 10 talking points from the weekend's action

Michy Batshuayi might be just what Chelsea need, VAR creates fresh farce and Coventry’s on-field outlook brightens at lastCardiff are not the first team to irk Pep Guardiola this season with their aggressive style but the constant fouling and Lee Mason’s conservative use of cards meant Manchester City were lucky to get away with only one injury in their victory at Cardiff City Stadium. Leroy Sané was the victim of a heinous shin-high challenge from Joe Bennett at the end of the first half that was punished only with a yellow card, the Cardiff defender eventually being dismissed in the closing stages of the match for a late lunge on the teenager Brahim Díaz. Guardiola rightly lambasted Mason after the...

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Why I won’t be going to watch my beloved AFC Wimbledon at MK Dons | Daffydd Bynon

I went to the first meeting between the clubs four years ago, and found it a deeply upsetting experience. I told myself then that I would never return to Stadium MKI’m not going on Saturday. I follow AFC Wimbledon everywhere, but not on Saturday. Not when they’re playing them, the enemy, the club that shouldn’t be. MK Dons.I went to our first ever meeting – the FA Cup tie in December 2012. There were more than 3,000 of us and we were there to make a point – that here we were, AFC Wimbledon, a club born out of a horrible decision made 10 years earlier and who belonged to the fans and would never be victim of the whims...

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