Although the date has not been set as yet, the way things are working this season it looks very likely to be on the Sunday (10th March). The BBC and Sky will probably screen 2 of the 4 matches each. With 4 London teams in the draw there could have been problems with having them all on the Sunday, but it turns out that there's only one match in London (Chelsea's trip to Tottenham). Don't book the trains just yet though, as it's possible that one of the games will be an early kick-off on the Saturday.

The Toon trip was the hardest draw we could have got, the only consolation being that we're the hardest draw they could have got too. We should be happy if we can get them back to Highbury for a replay.

Arsenal are through thanks to a comfortable but slightly late win over Gillingham. Twice we went ahead and twice they equalised with spectacular goals, before Tony Adams forced home our third (with an unidentified part of his body) and Wiltord and Parlour sealed the 5-2 victory with late strikes.

Parlour's was as spectacular as the Gill's second (a looping strike from former Arsenal trainee Ty Gooden). Ray met a falling ricochet near the edge of the box on the volley with the outside of his right foot and it rocketed into the net.

Our others weren't bad either. Wiltord opened things with a classy finish, scoring from beyond the penalty spot with a flick from the outside of his right boot. I wonder if he's going to keep doing these kind of finishes until people start believing his goal against Everton was deliberate.

Kanu's came from a rebound after Vince Bartram failed to hold a shot. The ball went quite wide of goal but Kanu wrapped one of his size 19s round the ball and fired it high into tthe net.

Wiltord's second was nicely taken too. He was set up by Pires (coming on with Henry in a second half change of personnel which was testament to how far Gillingham pushed us) and when his first shot came back he did well to get the ball out from under his feet to prod it past Bartram.