The FA has also ruled out any possibility of a friendly match between England and Scotland until at least 2011.
Bracewell led the London club on two creditable cup runs - only losing to Tranmere in the fifth round of the FA Cup and going out of the Worthington Cup in the semi-final to the eventual winners, Leicester.
It is possible that Leicester can knock us out of the FA Cup if we don't play well, but we can't risk a stupid rule knocking us out.
Norwich wasn't the only Premier League club dumped out of the FA Cup by lower-level opposition.
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Leeds have slipped outside the League One play-off places and were knocked out of the FA Cup by non-league Histon.
The misery continued on Wednesday night when Reading dumped them out of the FA Cup after extra time in front of their home supporters.
But City boss Hughes believes Adebayor has a good case to contest the additional charge dished out by the FA for improper conduct.
Robin van Persie scored twice from the penalty spot as Arsenal staged a remarkable comeback to knock Aston Villa out of the FA Cup.
The club are only one point above the relegation zone and were dumped out of the FA Cup last month, losing to Championship side Swansea City.
Last year, Arsenal was trounced by AC Milan in the Champions League and knocked out of the FA Cup by Sunderland in the space of four days.
And even though they bowed out of the FA Trophy last weekend with a 4-1 defeat at Chippenham Town, Smith believes that was very much down to cup fever.
But he has struggled to convince with The Rams, who are currently 19th in the Championship and were dumped out of the FA Cup by League One side Colchester.
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In addition to the defeat by United, the Gunners were knocked out of the FA Cup at the semi-final stage by Chelsea and are currently fourth in the Premier League.
Football Association spokesman Adrian Bevington said his organisation "would obviously like to see the game broadcast to as many people as possible" but insisted the matter was out of the FA's hands.
Having been dumped out of the FA Cup by Blue Square Bet Premier side Darlington last month, the defeat by Exeter in Tuesday night's southern area semi-final was the final straw for the Rovers board.
And it looked as if their season was getting worse as they appeared to be heading out of the FA Cup when Frank Lampard put Chelsea ahead in the first half of extra time and the Toffees still trailed with only two minutes remaining.
Knocked out of the FA Cup by Barnsley, a League Cup final defeat at the hands of Tottenham and being pipped to the title by Manchester United for the second year running are not the sort of results demanded by this most ambitious of oligarchs.
In the Ryman Premier league Hastings United will be looking for a much-improved display at Kingstonian, after last Saturday's horror show at the Pilot Field that saw them concede six goals in the opening 45 minutes as they crashed out of the FA Trophy to Merstham.
"Over a period of time, Roy emerged as a stand-out candidate, " FA chairman David Bernstein said.
Those two meetings were both in the FA Cup, with Vale running out the victors on both occasions.
Fifteen weeks later, they are 16th, a point above relegation, and have crashed out of both the FA and Uefa Cups.
The club have received notification of the automatic punishment handed out by the Scottish FA after Laszlo was reported by referee Steve Conroy.
And, as both Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore and FA counterpart Ian Watmore have spoken out against the reaction, leniency cannot be guaranteed.
Former England striker Alan Shearer ruled out the possibility of the FA appointing a part-time coach.
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Singling out the Football Association (FA), he accused it of an abject failure to do enough to tackle the issue.
Bournemouth had on-loan goalkeeper Chris Tardif to thank for his penalty shoot-out heroics after their dramatic FA Cup replay win at Crewe.
Vauxhall Motors caused the upset of the FA Cup first round as they dumped out Second Division QPR on penalties at Loftus Road.
The games remaining matches got a bit out of kilter this weekend with FA Cup play.
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Cotterill was in charge of the Robins between 1997 and 2002 and led Town to promotion three times and an FA Trophy win, but he has been out of work since leaving Burnley in 2007.
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