Doncaster Rovers 0-2 Crystal Palace: FA Cup fourth round – as it happened

Goals from Daniel Muñoz and Justin Devenny earned Crystal Palace a 2-0 win at Doncaster and a last-16 tie at home to Millwall

1 min: The Palace fans have travelled up the M1 and M18 in numbers. It looks freezing cold. Doncaster engage the old high press and forced Matt Turner to lose the ball.

Oliver Glasner’s turtle-neck jumper rather unfortunately reminds of the U-Boat captain in Dad’s Army. Don’t tell him, Pike.

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Real Madrid v Manchester City ‘seems like a clásico’ now, says Carlo Ancelotti

  • Two teams meet again in Champions League playoffs
  • City have faced Madrid five times in past six years

On the eve of Real Madrid’s Champions League playoff first leg at Manchester City, Carlo Ancelotti billed the clash between the sides as a “clásico”.

Madrid’s trip to the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday night and the return at the Santiago Bernabéu on Wednesday next week will be the fifth time in six years the sides have played each other in the knockout phase. While the Spanish and English champions have each previously progressed twice, Ancelotti was clear about how he rates encounters between them.

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Plymouth fan savours a second win over Liverpool, 69 years after the first

Lifelong Argyle fan Jed Griffiths was at Home Park for the victory over Liverpool in 1956 and Sunday’s FA Cup shock

As snapshots of a lifetime spent following Plymouth Argyle, two wins against Liverpool, almost 70 years apart, stand out for Jed Griffiths. Few among the Home Park faithful attended both but Griffiths, a proud member of the Green Army since 1953, was there for the 4-0 win on 11 February 1956 in the old Second Division, his beloved club’s previous defeat of Liverpool. As for the FA Cup fourth-round giantkilling on Sunday, when the Championship strugglers sank the Premier League leaders, it was “one of the highlights of my footballing life”.

In 1956, Griffiths was a schoolboy at Devonport High school, watching the game from the old “Pop Side” of the old Home Park. “No seats in those days,” he says. “We were opposite the grandstand, and we younger kids would get passed down the front, and we hung on the railings for a closeup view.”

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