The FA Cup
Fourth Round Proper
Saturday 29 January 2005 - 3.00pm
£60,000 to each winning club



Peter Crouch was delighted to grab the winner against his old team in the battle of the South coast.

"To the score the winner was obviously good," said Crouch.

"When you hear the fans as loud as they were today, it definitely gets to you and it felt like a real cup tie.Thank god we were on the right end of it."

The lanky striker shouldered responsibility for the spot-kick in the absence of Jamie Redknapp and Kevin Phillips: "I said before the game that I was confident and wanted to take a penalty - and I couldn't have hit it better really."

Harry Redknapp was left reflecting after his Southampton side beat his old club. "It was a strange day all round. Pompey have got great supporters and, all right they have the needle with me because of what happened, but one day maybe it will all come out and people will see that perhaps I don't deserve the stick I've been getting."

Redknapp admitted that he "thought both penalties were harsh" but praised Crouch's spot kick technique. He said: "I thought he was going to head it in!

"But if someone wanted to take it and he was confident, he had no fear and if someone is in that mood then you just let them get on with it."

Yeovil boss Gary Johnson was left pleased with his side's performance despite going down at the Valley. "The crowd gave us a standing ovation," he said.

"We played a very entertaining game which is what we set out to do. We have played quite well this season and that's why we are top of the league."

Johnson hopes that his side can learn from their FA Cup experience. He said: "We have learnt that we have the ability to upset Premiership teams, especially in the last 15 minutes when we had several chances. If we can do that against Charlton, then we should have the belief that we can do that in our next game against Macclesfield."

Charlton's Alan Curbishley also praised the Coca-Cola League Two leaders: "I thought that we had a few chances to get our fourth goal, but it was certainly game-on for the last 15 minutes as they threw caution to the wind. Great credit to Yeovil. We knew before the game that we had a difficult tie ahead of us."

Blackburn boss Mark Hughes was left full of praise for young striker Jemal Johnson. He said: "I'm delighted for Jemal. He's a young player who has come through the academy and who we think has got a good future here.

"It was an opportunity to get him on the pitch and give him some game time and he did very well. His movement was good, he was involved in most of our attacking work and also pinched a goal with a good strike."

Meanwhile, Colchester boss Phil Parkinson is confident that his goalkeeper will recover from the dreadful error which gave Rovers the lead. "It will no doubt be shown on Match of the Day, and probably on programmes in years to come," he said, "but he is an experienced keeper and he is a big enough character to live with that. We are not putting any blame on him at all, we are blaming the pitch. It got a bobble and bounced over his foot. These things happen in football."

Sunderland manager Mick McCarthy conceded that his side were simply not good enough in their 0-3 defeat against Everton. He said: "We got a good hiding from a very good outfit. No complaints - we got a real good doing out there.

"But I've got to praise my players for keeping going. I'm full of admiration for them, but we were beaten by a side who showed why they are doing so well."