While that short price is unlikely to tempt too many punters into a straight up bet on Arsenal in the match odds market, Betfair have a choice of two enhanced new customer offers which offer a couple of tempting options to back Arsene Wenger’s side.
Wenger’s pampered Premier League players will receive a culture shock when they enter the Sutton away dressing-room with it’s basic facilities with toilets that haven’t been upgraded since the 1940’s.
Bailey, now 32, has seen it all and done it all.
Millwall, who also caused an upset in beating Premier League champions Leicester face Tottenham in a mouth-watering London derby at White Hart Lane, while a similar adjective can be used to describe Chelsea clash with Manchester United.
It’s just one of the precautions teams at the highest level take in order to look after their players and ensure they can build their way up to, and maintain, peak fitness.
“One time they had Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, Robin Van Persie and Jose Reyes, all playing. They’ve been incredible, it’s them that have carried us, it’s been fantastic”.
“That was like a welcome into what proper football was all about”. We need to take that into Friday night’s game’.
“I remember that one because of the scoreline”. It’s the biggest game of my career and I just can’t wait for it to come.
Tomorrow evening will be quite different. United are alive and in strong position in Europa League as well as the two domestic cups. “It’s a football miracle for a non-league team to be in the last eight”.
“Yeah, definitely. They’ve got one over us“, he added.
But Arsenal will need to match Sutton’s whole-hearted commitment to this competition for the gulf in class to show – and a fixture with a non-league ground, with cramped (chocolate) changing rooms and an artificial pitch is likely to do little to inspire them out of their recent mini-slump.
“At this stage of the competition, we are going to be coming up against top quality opposition no matter where you go”. “They had an wonderful attitude and belief, they gave us a really good match and with a different attitude we could have lost this match”.
“[But] Before the Wimbledon game [in the third round] we were more than comfortable in the league and looking like maybe pushing for a play-off place”.
“The boiler is absolutely shot to pieces, which is why at best they will get lukewarm showers”, manager Paul Doswell said on Thursday in a modest hospitality room with a leaky roof.
I didn’t feel in any danger of slipping.
“I have so many things to think about”, said the United manager.