Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City? Joe Cole reveals his pick to win the FA Cup
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Manchester City are Joe Cole’s pick to win this year’s FA Cup (Picture: Getty) Ex-England and Chelsea star Joe Cole says he has a ‘sneaky feeling’ Manchester City will go all the way in this year’s FA Cup to lift the trophy for an eighth time. Your football fix Metro's Head of Sport James Goldman delivers punchy analysis, transfer talk and his take on the week's biggest stories direct to your inbox every week.
Sign up here, it's an open goal. Guardiola’s men saw off Newcastle to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals (Picture: Getty) Palace stunned City to win the cup last season (Picture: Getty) Ahead of the weekend’s fixtures, Joe Hart, Glenn Hoddle and Cole sat down with TNT Sport’s Darren Fletcher to discuss their thoughts after a rollercoaster few months in English football’s most famous competition. ‘I’ve just got a sneaky feeling for Joe [Hart]’s mob [Manchester City],’ former Chelsea, Liverpool and West Ham winger Cole said.
He was ready to scrap, he was fighting, he was living and breathing everything they were doing.’ Arsenal lock horns with Southampton for a place in the semi-finals (Picture: Getty) Irrespective of which clubs make it to this year’s final, Cole is anticipating an ‘incredible’ showpiece at Wembley. ‘Nostalgia is a big thing in this current age,’ the ex-England international – who won two FA Cups with Chelsea – explained. ‘There’s always been people harping on about the good old days, but now, music, fashion and football, all three things go hand in hand and the FA Cup encompasses all three things. Chelsea face League One outfit Port Vale in the quarter-finals (Picture: Getty) ‘I think there has been a big push back and this year’s FA Cup final, something incredible is going to happen, it has to.’ According to Hart, Palace’s historic victory over City last year will have ‘given hope to everyone’ of upsetting the odds and getting their hands on the trophy. ‘You look at the achievement of Palace last season, they beat Manchester City and, of course, I wanted Manchester City to win,’ the 2011 FA Cup winner said. ‘But it united them, gave them their medals and their flowers and that badge of honour that they had worked so hard for. ‘It was an incredible performance and that can only give hope to everyone left in the competition.’ Ex-England manager Hoddle agreed, adding: ‘That performance has given hope to everyone: if they can do it against the odds, against the very best, then we can do it.’ Who will win this year's FA Cup?