It's Middlesbrough

Last updated : 17 January 2006 By Covsupport
Coventry City will face Middlesbrough at the Arena in the FA Cup fourth round after the Premiership side saw off Nuneaton Borough tonight with a 5-2 victory. It took 34 minutes for Chris Riggotts to put the North East side ahead. Yakubu scored twice with Stuart Parnaby and Mark Viduka also scoring for Steve McClaren's side. There was some consolation for Nuneaton who took five times their average home gate when Gez Murphy scored twice from a header and a late penalty.

Eleswhere in the FA Cup, Reading beat Premiership West Brom 3-2 after extra time, Tamworth lost to Stoke on penalties after a 1-1 draw at The Lamb., Birmingham beat Torquay 2-0 whilst Wigan needed penalties to beat Leeds after a 3-3 draw.

Locally, it was a bad night all round for our sides apart from Rugby Town who beat Tiverton Town 3-1 at home. Bedworth United lost 3-0 at Clevedeon and in the Alliance Leamington lost 4-1 at Malvern Town with Stratford losing 2-0 at home to Stourbridge.