FA Cup

This page collects FA Cup previews for selected matches, each one a full breakdown of a single fixture rather than a quick note. Not every round is covered here, but where a preview appears it comes with a predicted scoreline, a headline tip and team news for both sides.

The FA Cup is a cup competition played in England. Its standings and fixtures are tracked on their own pages, since both move round by round and don't belong in a page meant to stay accurate for months.

Each preview is built the same way: a predicted scoreline, a headline tip, five further picks across other markets, a three-leg bet builder, a predicted line-up for both sides and details of where to watch. It's prepared roughly 22 hours before kick-off and updated if team news changes before the game. The page for that match doesn't disappear once the whistle goes either, it switches to show how the tips actually did. Every preview carries a byline, and the full list of writers sits on the authors page.

Grading follows one rule throughout: each tip is marked hit or miss, misses are never quietly dropped, and results are calculated at a flat £10 stake using the odds printed when the preview went up, not whatever price is available now. For the numbers that come out of that process, and the full explanation of how they're worked out, see the tip record and the methodology page.