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Tom Coley

Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham set for FA Cup travel chaos amid planned New Year rail strikes

Rail strikes are set to disrupt to the FA Cup third round as fixtures are due to be played on dates that have been selected by RMT workers.

More than 40,000 staff over 14 different train operaters are preparing sets of 48-hour strikes over the Christmas and New Year period, including days that clash with one of the biggest days in the footballing calendar.

Not only will there be strikes on December 13 and 14 as well as 16 and 17, there will also be days of strike between January 3 and 4 as well as the first two days of the FA Cup third round on January 6 and 7.

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