The remaining 32 teams in the 2025/26 FA Cup will discover their fate in the fourth round when the draw is made by two former winners of the competition. Steven Gerrard and Joe Cole will decide the ties as a host of Premier League clubs aim to take another step towards this season's final. Liverpool legend Gerrard triumphed with Liverpool in 2001 and 2006, with Cole lifting the trophy as a Chelsea midfielder in 2007 and 2010.
Speaking to Ferdinand on the Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast, Gerrard says a lack of personal connection between players was ultimately the group's downfall, and how those relationships are now very different now. "I believe we had the football IQ and intelligence to adapt and make it work together," said Gerrard. "But there was a bigger problem with England in my opinion. I think we were all egotistical losers. "I watch the telly now and I see [Jamie] Carragher sitting next to Paul Scholes on this fan debate and they look like they've been best mates for 20 years.
Few footballer players have ever struck a ball quite like former Liverpool duo Steven Gerrard and John Arne Riise Gerrard with his thunderous right foot, Riise with his cannon of a left. Both are remembered for iconic goals: Gerrard's stoppage-time rocket in the 2006 FA Cup final, and Riise's unstoppable free-kick against Manchester United in 2001. But after years of debate over who really had the hardest shot, the two Reds legends finally put it to the test and Riise came out on top.
