FA Cup TV games CONFIRMED with Plymouth fans facing nightmare journey home from Man City clash

PLYMOUTH ARGYLE fans face a nightmare journey home from Manchester after the next round of FA Cup TV games were confirmed.

The remaining eight fixtures are set to take place on the first weekend of March.

And the FA Cup fifth round games have now been divvied up between national broadcasters ITV and the BBC.

But Argyle fans will be feeling hard done by after their trip to Manchester City, a reward for KO’ing Liverpool, was given a 5.45pm kick-off time by ITV4 on Saturday March 1.

The journey up from the south west alone will take nearly six hours.

And supporters face being stranded in Manchester overnight, with the final train back to Plymouth leaving at 6.25pm — 40 minutes after kick-off.

The train doesn’t even get back to Devon until nearly midnight.

And it means any fan who wants to catch it will likely be unlikely to see more than a few minutes of the game, given the 1.4 mile distance between the Etihad and Manchester Piccadilly station.

Man City vs Plymouth is just one of FOUR matches taking place on Saturday March 1.

Crystal Palace vs Millwall kicks off at 12.15pm on BBC One.

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While Preston vs Burnley starts at the same time on BBC iPlayer.

Bournemouth vs Wolves is also taking place at 3pm.

But it is the one game of the weekend that will NOT be on TV, and has instead been selected as the featured broadcast for BBC Radio 5 Live.

The day before, Friday February 28, sees Aston Villa host Cardiff at 8pm on ITV1.

Sunday March 2 then boasts Newcastle vs Brighton, which kicks off at 1.45pm on ITV1.

That game is later followed by Man United vs Fulham at 4.30pm on BBC One.

And the last match of the round features Nottingham Forest vs Ipswich on Monday March 3, which kicks off at 7.30pm on ITV4.

Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk