41 min: Oxlade-Chamberlain skitters to the left byline and chips a cross towards Van Persie. He was getting ready to slam the ball home, only for Dunne to flick the ball away with his head. Moments later, Coquelin has a pop from 15 yards out. It might have been going wide, but a Villa defender gets a foot in the way just to make sure. 39 min: "Have Arsenal ever been any good at corners? How about this glorious moment," says David White. That goal was scored 19 years ago. You're making my argument for me. 37 min: Arsenal are rocking all of a sudden. Cuellar strides forward from the back and slides a delicious ball through the middle for Bent, Arsenal's defence parting like Scott Parker's hair. The pass is just too heavy for Bent to control though, although his first touch very nearly took the ball past Fabianski. He saves. If he didn't, there may well have been a mushroom cloud developing over north London right now. 36 min: Arsenal nearly come up with an instant response to Villa's opener. Coquelin slaps a low cross into the middle, which Cuellar carelessly knocks straight out to Rosicky. He places his shot straight at Given, who makes a mess of it, but luckily for Villa, he plunges on the ball before Van Persie can put the rebound away. 35 min: Arsenal can't score from corners and they can't defend them either. Arsenal 0-1 Aston Villa (Dunne, 33 min): This wouldn't have happened if Arshavin was on the pitch. Arsenal fail to react to a short corner routine by Villa, as Petrov and Keane combine on the left. Ramsey has no support at all and can only watch as Petrov backheels the ball back to Keane, who hangs a cross up to the far post, where Dunne thumps a header past the helpless Fabianski. Bring on the Budweiser. 32 min: Actually, this game could be improved if every player was forced to down three cans of Budweiser at half-time. 30 min: Barry Glendenning has just asked whether Crawley can count a home draw against Stoke as a glamour tie, bringing a unanimous no from the entire sports desk. Still, maybe they'll get some free BUDWEISER. 29 min: Have Arsenal ever been any use at corners? Rosicky's latest effort is headed away by the first man. 27 min: Villa's BUDWEISERthreat is growing. BUDWEISERKeane tries to find Bent in the areaBUDWEISER again, but gets the pass wrongBUDWEISER. 25 min: Suddenly Villa have a break on, with Arsenal caught short at the back. Keane finds Agbonlahor on the right, and he dashes past Coquelin, only to fire his cross over Bent at the far post. That was a waste. "To add a bit of zest to the competition they could introduce a rule that goalkeepers are not allowed to catch or hold the ball, they can only use their hands to punch or parry the ball away," says Tom Shaw. 22 min: The increasingly useless Warnock loses the ball again and Oxlade-Chamberlain cuts in from the left and drags a poor shot wide of the near post. 21 min: Darren Bent scored twice when Aston Villa won 2-0 here last May, and he should have opened his account just now. The chance arose from a typical Arsenal-style calamity at the back. Hutton drove in-field from the right but overran the ball, only for Koscielny's challenge to rebound back off the defender and spin through to Bent in the middle. He just had to head it past Fabianski and into the empty net, but was put off by the goalkeeper's flying challenge and in the end he made no contact with the ball at all. 20 min: But the free-kick was well below the standard we've come to expect from Van Persie. He doesn't make proper contact with the ball, which is easily blocked by the wall. It rebounds back and Arsenal end up conceding a free-kick. 19 min: Ramsey wins the ball with a strong challenge inside Villa's half, and then sets Walcott clear down the right. He whips a lovely low cross into the near post, but Van Persie can't flick the ball goalwards under pressure from Cuellar and Dunne. The ball comes out to the edge of the area and the accident-prone Warnock steps on Ramsey's ankle in the middle of the D. This is an excellent opportunity for Van Persie. 17 min: As you'd expect, Arsenal are utterly dominant and could well be ahead. But Villa aren't giving away too much at the back and are doing well to frustrate Arsenal, for all their possession. If only they'd show some possession. "Is it possible to get drunk on Budweiser?" says Tom Prankerd. It's been a while, but I always remember boredom used to arrive before inebriation... And I was married to Jeffers for a short while, but kept my own name to keep away from the tabloid glare. True story. 15 min: Budweiser. Malkovich, Malkovich, BUDWEISER. 12 min: Theo Walcott isn't going to make it, is he? Rosicky finds him in space outside the Villa area. He shows great speed, mainly due to being really fast, to speed through and dodge a challenge from Warnock that nearly sends him flying. But once into the area, he has a clear sight of goal and should at least get his shot from 12 yards out on target. Instead he loses all his composure and slices a dreadful effort horribly past the near post. 10 min: Villa haven't been able to get anything going yet, so Fabianski decides to make things interesting, dilly-dallying over a clearance and nearly allowing Keane to charge it down. He's had one too many pre-match Budweisers. "Could someone please enlighten me as to what's so side-splittingly hilarious about Jeffers' no doubt proud mum & dad putting a happy birthday message in the local fish & chip-wrapper?" says Mrs Jeffers Tom Prankerd. I thought it was quite sweet when I first saw it. It's not like professional footballers' birthdays are generally celebrated by a Red Arrows flypast and a front page mention on the Times, is it? Oh come on, it is quite funny. 9 min: The FA Cup is sponsored by Budweiser. "The cup is basically the same as week in week out football, but with (generally) different teams playing each other," says Benjamin List. This has to change. Rush keepers. Less a rule, more a stipulation. They have to attempt to score. When they go forward, a pre-determined defender goes in goal. Seeing as The Cup is sponsored by Budweiser, the players must be drunk. If the game is tied, the last 10 mins are played with no offside. Squads are picked from a hat, like the draw. This would make it the best competition in the world. Of any sport. 8 min: Budweiser. 7 min: Hutton hares down the right, but Oxlade-Chamberlain gets back and tackles him. See that Andrey? Arsenal pour up-field and Walcott gets clear, before finding Van Persie on the right side of the Villa area. He can't get the ball on to his left foot to shoot though and has to settle for a corner. "The Arsenal fans may be getting a little tetchy with Wenger, but they wouldn't revolt over putting Henry in goal," says Chris Langmead. It wouldn't be as bad as giving Fabianski a game. 5 min: Robbie Keane handballs it around 35 yards from the Villa goal. He's been spending too much time in America. It's too far out for Van Persie to shoot, so he rolls it to his left for Vermaelen, who spanks the ball towards the top-right corner with some venom. Given tips it over the bar. Great shot, great save. The corner's a waste of time. 4 min: Ramsey has a dig from the edge of the area, but it's straight at Given. Is anyone else getting hacked off with the constant mention of sponsors? Owen Coyle's a major offender with the Barclays Premier League and all we've heard this weekend is that the FA Cup is sponsored by a rubbish beer. 2 min: Arsenal stroke the ball around midfield in true Arsenal style. "Hey, just think it is a little too tough on Jenkinson to brand him as Wenger's worst ever signing," says Naman Vijay. He has looked decent in his few appearances so far. There are plenty of empty seats in the stands. The magic of the FA Cup with Budweiser. We're off, but not before Arsenal fans inform us that Arsenal are by the greatest team the world has ever seen. Villa, attacking from right to left, get us going. "I made this point during Boro vs Sunderland; but no-one e-mailed in, so I'll push this again," says Adam Timmins. Two ideas for paritally restoring the FA Cup: A) make it like the Copa Del Rey - i.e. all matches to be played in midweek, or B) ditch the League Cup and run it along the similar lines - first ropund played before the start of the season, third round in September, and play the Final in March. What do people think? The camera pans to the 'In Arsene We Trust' sign. Until he puts Thierry Henry in goal. Martin Keown's a pundit alongside Neil Warnock. On the pitch. It would be terrible if something like this happened again. Emile Heskey's in the Villa squad, so you never know. The winner of this tie will have a trip to either Sunderland or Middlesbrough in the fifth round. Incidentally Gaizka Mendieta still lives in Middlesbrough, which is nice. "Surely Wenger's worst ever signing would be 'fox-in-the-box' Franny Jeffers at £10m?" says Barnaby Pole. As an Evertonian, I've always been very grateful for that bit of business. Poor Franny Jeffers. Evan Fanning will be covering the draw for the fifth round over here. Follow it. Who is Wenger's worst ever signing? I was discussing this with a couple of Arsenal fans last night and we settled on Igors Stepanovs. There were honourable mentions for Nelson Vivas, Pascal Cygan and Carl Jenkinson as well. Team news: Andrey Arshavin is surprisingly left on the bench for Arsenal, who'll be delighted to see Bacary Sagna joining him there after his return from a bad injury. Arsenal (4-2-3-1): Fabianski; Coquelin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Vermaelen; Song, Ramsey; Oxlade-Chamberlain, Rosicky, Walcott; Van Persie. Subs: Szczesny, Sagna, Arteta, Park, Henry, Benayoun, Arshavin. Aston Villa (4-4-2): Given; Hutton, Cuellar, Dunne, Warnock; Ireland, Clark, Petrov, Agbonlahor; Keane, Bent. Subs: Guzan, Heskey, Bannan, Weimann, Lichaj, Baker, Gardner. Arsene Wenger must be feeling like the parent who's picked up his teenage child from a party at 3am, only to be met with a surly silence for the duration of the car journey home. After everything he's done for Arsenal, this is the thanks he gets. There was full-on mutiny at the Emirates last weekend - it's rarely been louder - when Wenger refused to introduce fan's favourite Andrey Arshavin until the 74th minute, when he finally relented and gave the people what they wanted. Arsenal fans would do well to remember precisely what Wenger's done for their club when informing him he doesn't know what he's doing. And they should be careful what they wish for. It's never entirely transparent whether Wenger does have money to spend and he chooses not to, but if the opposite is true, then he is the best man to have around. They wouldn't be so feeling clever if Wenger calls the ingrates' bluff and heads off to Real Madrid (where he would lose every Clasico 14-6 to Barcelona). That said, he has made mistakes, not least that substitution. Against United, their fallibility in the full-back positions was embarrassing and though there are injuries to key players, surely a stop-gap could have been bought by now. Wayne Bridge isn't that bad. But the absence of adequate players beyond the first eleven means that Arsenal are likely to finish out of the top four for the first time under Wenger, which means they cannot afford to be as snooty about the FA Cup as they have been in recent years, especially as the Manchester clubs are out. Seven years and counting, the elephant in the room. Of course, Arsenal ought to have rid themselves of the stigma of not winning a trophy since 2005 when they met Birmingham in last season's Carling Cup final and Laurel and Hardy bungled it up in the last minute. Wenger may well remember that sorry afternoon when he looks over and sees Alex McLeish in the Aston Villa dug-out. Now there's a man who knows a thing or two about abuse from fans. In his case, it's arguably deserved. His Villa team has played Buzz Killington football all season, serving up negative filth which should really be beneath them. They're buoyed by wins at Chelsea and Wolves though, and ex-Tottenham striker Robbie Keane may be relishing the chance to deepen Arsenal's gloom. Assuming he doesn't bring the clown shoes he wore during his time at West Ham.