Arsenal at Nottingham Forest 2018 online streaming: Start time, TV schedule and how to watch FA Cup online

Happy Sunday, and happy FA Cup day! Arsenal trundle the two hours up the M1 to Nottingham this morning to take on Nottingham Forest. Not the actual forest, I guess, but the football team named after it, which is currently 14th in the Championship and on the very edges of a playoff place hunt - they’re 11 points off sixth place, so it’s a distant hope, but not out of the realm of possibility.

Arsenal go into this game managerless - well, temporarily, anyway, as Arsene Wenger sits out the first of his three game ban for abusing the officials a couple weeks ago. Steve Bould will probably be calling the shots, but I don’t expect that Arsenal will be too negatively affected by le absence of le boss.

As always when playing an English team with which I am basically unfamiliar, I looked over their roster, and there’s a few names that jumped out at me - their captain from last season Eric Lichaj being one. The US team regular and Forest’s player of the year last year moved to Nottingham after a stint at Aston Villa, and he’s both productive and well-loved in Nottingham.

There’s also Armand Traore, but the most familiar name to those with a sense of Forest’s history is Zack Clough. But! Even though he shares a surname with Forest and England legend Nigel, they are apparently not related. Other than that, I’m not familiar with any of the Forest players. But I will be after the match, at least until I forget about them again.

WHAT:
Arsenal vs. Nottingham Forest
FA Cup Third Round

WHERE:
City Ground, Nottingham

WHEN:
Sunday, January 7, 2018
8AM PT/11AM ET/4PM BT

HOW:
US TV: Fox Sports 1
Outside the US: check livesoccer.tv for all your streaming wants and needs

LINEUPS:
check back an hour before kickoff.