Still magical Cup or lost it's appeal ? To me , still best Cup competition there is , used to love watching the whole day when I was a kid , all the build up , Saint 'n Greavesy , the old Wembley . But screening games Friday night ? Big fat NO ! Chelsea v QPR , Liverpool v Man Utd , other good games no doubt ..
Has been allowed to lose some it's former glory as the bigger teams are more focused on top 4 finishes.
As a kid you would watch the coverage from 10am, teams leaving the hotel on their bus etc. Now you have 1 hour advance coverage of Jeff Stelling or the assorted clowns on the BBC.
Still a great day out as a fan, if you can't enjoy the Cup you shouldn't bother going.
We had very little 'live' football in those days and it was an event not just a football match. My old man always shut the curtains just before the game started. And then after the match all the kids on the estate went into the street and started huge games of football. Epic memories
Quote by VasqueWe had very little 'live' football in those days and it was an event not just a football match. My old man always shut the curtains just before the game started. And then after the match all the kids on the estate went into the street and started huge games of football. Epic memories
Quote by VasqueWe had very little 'live' football in those days and it was an event not just a football match. My old man always shut the curtains just before the game started. And then after the match all the kids on the estate went into the street and started huge games of football. Epic memories
I think the real football fans come out for the fa cup and that's my honest opinion, up the match for Cardiff 3rd round I saw faces I've not saw for 2 years and it actually felt like a football match, the fact it was a low crowd and we could all sit together was a bigger bonus, it's the highest point of football for me, I just wish we had managers who went for it and didn't see it as an annoying side from the league where we can hope for 10th place at the end of the season, blue had it right last year, win a cup and get relegated, I would happily take that, the premier league doesn't hold anything for me and the kind of supporters it attracts these days, I'm still waiting for football to go bump cash wise and we all get to slum it again and get rid of the modern football fan, then we'll see the magic of the cup again, the cup for me is the big one. Like most walks of life these days people want to make money instead of history, they want power instead of enjoyment, and when we look back on all those great moments in history the fa cup just joins a long list of modern day nothingness where making history and sharing glory is put aside.
Quote by Leicester_LoyalSwindon at home tomorrow. They are bringing around 5k fans. Should be a good day.
Should be a good atmosphere and good game that after your recent results against southampton and forest , Hopefully Leicester get in the next round pal
Fa Cup died for me years ago when Man United decided to play in a meaningless tournament on the other side of the world,i still enjoy seeing the smaller clubs knock bigger clubs out from time to time Wrexham beating Arsenal a few years back was a great game.
Quote by mkj1972Fa Cup died for me years ago when Man United decided to play in a meaningless tournament on the other side of the world,i still enjoy seeing the smaller clubs knock bigger clubs out from time to time Wrexham beating Arsenal a few years back was a great game.
You conveniently forget to add that United did it to help England's World cup bid. That little nugget always gets left out for some reason when this line is trotted out. It almost becomes fact that United ruined the FA Cup singlehandedly.
If United did it off their own back then why did the FA, yeah the cunts who actually run the FA cup, ask United to play in the World club championship to help with the World cup bid. The FA themselves and the government of the time fucked about with the FA cup for their own gains.
Not playing semi-finals at Villa Park and Hillsborough and doing away with replays ruined the FA cup.
Still love it. One of my highlights of the year is the 3rd round draw hoping Chelsea get a real juicy tie, away from the sterile environment of the modern day premiership. Often listened to it on the radio after trying for ages to get BBC Five Live on some frequency over here. The day Chelsea won the cup in 97 was one of the happiest days of my life, was sat near the half way line in the old Wembley with a ticket that had travelled all the way from Hong Kong! Not ashamed to say I cried like a baby on full time. And I wasn't alone in that.
And United didn't ruin the cup. The offered plenty of alternatives to the FA which were rejected, things like fielding a reserve side etc etc. And thank fuck they didn't play in it because Chelsea won it that year as well (whatya mean Chelsea won trophies before the Abramovich era??). Dislike United as much as the next guy but to say they ruined the competition is ludicrous. They are synonymous with the history of the FA Cup way back to the time of the Babes when the reached the final after the tragedy that was Munich. And from the ashes rose that phoenix.......
The lower leagues still turn out for it, looking forward to the barcodes in Brighton tomorrow !!!!
Eye's right, skin back tight, bollocks to the front, we're the boy's who make more noise when we're on the cunt, we're the riders of the night, and we'd rather fuck than fight, we're the riders of the Clock end Highbury
Quote by mkj1972Fa Cup died for me years ago when Man United decided to play in a meaningless tournament on the other side of the world,i still enjoy seeing the smaller clubs knock bigger clubs out from time to time Wrexham beating Arsenal a few years back was a great game.
You conveniently forget to add that United did it to help England's World cup bid. That little nugget always gets left out for some reason when this line is trotted out. It almost becomes fact that United ruined the FA Cup singlehandedly.
Quite simple for me really Man U could have just said no & not bowed to pressure.Instead they saw the money they could make boosting their profile abroad to sell more shirts.United did it for United not Englands world cup bid like all the top clubs they dont give a fuck about England just how much money they can make.
Quote by mkj1972Fa Cup died for me years ago when Man United decided to play in a meaningless tournament on the other side of the world,i still enjoy seeing the smaller clubs knock bigger clubs out from time to time Wrexham beating Arsenal a few years back was a great game.
You conveniently forget to add that United did it to help England's World cup bid. That little nugget always gets left out for some reason when this line is trotted out. It almost becomes fact that United ruined the FA Cup singlehandedly.
Quite simple for me really Man U could have just said no & not bowed to pressure.Instead they saw the money they could make boosting their profile abroad to sell more shirts.
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