London: Stoke ousted Arsenal from the FA Cup with a 3-1 victory in the fourth round on Sunday, leaving Chelsea as the only member of the Premier League traditional "Big Four" remaining in the world's oldest knockout competition.
Liverpool and Manchester United had been eliminated in the third round.
Just 70 seconds into Sol Campbell's second Arsenal debut, Rory Delap's trademark long throw-in flew over the 35-year-old defender and Ricardo Fuller headed powerfully past Lukasz Fabianski.
The visitors tied it 1-1 just before the break through Denilson's deflected strike, but Fuller headed in from Delap again in the 78th and Dean Whitehead sealed Stoke's fourth-round win.
Manchester City were drawn to play Stoke after Roberto Mancini's side beat Scunthorpe in Sunday's other match, with Robinho rounding off a 4-2 victory before departing on a likely loan move to Brazilian side Santos.
City's match at Scunthorpe could be Brazil forward Robinho's last match in England for now. Robinho told Brazilian radio ahead of the match he wanted to return to his former club Santos - probably on loan - because of his lack of action at City.
He started Sunday and set up Martin Petrov on the left, with the Bulgarian sending a powerful left-foot shot into the top corner to give City the lead after just three minutes.
Paul Hayes volleyed a 29th-minute equalizer for second-tier Scunthorpe, but Nedum Onuoha restored City's lead at the end of the first half.
Sylvinho extended City's lead in the 57th, but Scunthorpe had renewed hope of an upset when Grant McCann floated in a corner from the right and captain Cliff Byrne's shot went in off defender Dedryk Boyata in the 69th.
But Robinho sealed the win by firing the ball into the roof of the net from inside the area after being put through by Petrov with six minutes to go.
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