Eastleigh 1-3 Newport, Bristol City 1-0 West Ham, and more: FA Cup replays – as it happened

Newport set up a fourth-round tie with Manchester United while Bristol City knocked out West Ham

The teams are out at Ashton Gate. I can see Bristol City and West Ham United. I’m not so privileged when it comes to Birmingham and Hull at St Andrews, Bolton and Luton at the Toughsheet Community Stadium, Eastleigh and Newport at Silverlake Stadium and the aforementioned Wolves and Brentford at Molineux. But we’ll do what we can do. Peep! And we’re off!

Purists and traditionalists will demur, and I’ll admit I’ve yet to think this through properly, but the early rounds of the FA Cup could do with a live goals show. I’ll level with you, I’m already jonesing for next season’s NFL RedZone, not to mention James Richardson’s Champions League goal-blasts on TNT. Top-drawer hectic entertainment. Anyway, it’s still goalless at Molineux.

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