{"id":978,"date":"2026-01-14T08:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/?p=978"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:22:25","slug":"macclesfield-draw-brentford-after-fa-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"Macclesfield draw Brentford after FA Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Chelsea manager Liam Rosenior was handed a trip back to his old club Hull City in the FA Cup fourth round draw on Monday while non-league giant-slayers Macclesfield will welcome top-flight Brentford.<\/p>\n<p>Sixth-tier Macclesfield, coached by Wayne Rooney&#8217;s younger brother John, delivered the biggest upset in FA Cup history when they stunned holders Crystal Palace 2\u20131 at their Moss Rose ground last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>They will have to produce another huge upset against Brentford, punching above their weight in fifth in the Premier League standings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We said before that we would have liked to get Liverpool, Chelsea, or Arsenal but another Premier League side is incredible,&#8221; said Rooney after the draw at Liverpool&#8217;s Anfield ground.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenior played in the FA Cup final for Hull City against winners Arsenal in 2014 and also managed the club from 2022 to 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He kicked off his tenure as Chelsea boss last Saturday with a 5-1 FA Cup third round win at Championship (second tier) side Charlton Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>Premier League leaders Arsenal, the record 14-times winners of the FA Cup, will host League One (third tier) Wigan Athletic who won in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa, who beat Tottenham Hotspur in the third round, will be at home to Newcastle United in an all-Premier League clash.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool will also face Premier League opponents in Brighton &amp; Hove Albion if they beat League One Barnsley at home on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City will have fourth-tier opponents in either Salford City, in what would be a mismatched local game, or Swindon Town.<\/p>\n<p>The matches will be played around the weekend of February 14 and 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Chelsea manager Liam Rosenior was handed a trip back to his old club Hull City in the FA Cup fourth round draw on Monday while non-league giant-slayers Macclesfield will welcome top-flight Brentford. Sixth-tier Macclesfield, coached by Wayne Rooney&#8217;s younger brother John, delivered the biggest upset in FA Cup history when they stunned holders Crystal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}