AOM
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And the Spanish Cup final was held in Saudi Arabia
FA Cup Replays / Too Many Games Argument (1 Viewer)
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And the Spanish Cup final was held in Saudi Arabia
MalcSB
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The moneymen seem to be doing just fine at the moment.
Houchens Head
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My personal feeling is that extra time should be scrapped. If teams are level at full time - 90 minutes - then go straight to penalties! But what do I know ( or care! 
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Irish Sky Blue
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Your feelings about the replay last season don’t seem to match those of most City fans as over 19k turned up at the CBS for the game. I think almost all would have gone home happy having seen an entertaining game and a 4-1 win for our team. Don’t forget that’s 19k customers all paying on the night, gate money plus all of the ancillary spend that has now disappeared with the replays.
I doubt that you were following football when the Cup as a competition was as important as the league. Therefore you wouldn’t have known the excitement generated by your team when they held the opposition away with a great cup fighting performance and earned the right to take them on at your place.Look at gates for Cup ties up until the advent of the PL. They were almost always higher than the average gate for a league game.
Unfortunately younger fans can’t compare the Cup now and then and see how it has been devalued. It’s all been done to appease the so called elite and so a great competition is continually downgraded.
Maybe it’s because you’ve never known what it once was that you continue to agree with everything that Pep, Jurgan and their friends at the FA do to damage the Cup.
shmmeee
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My personal feeling is that extra time should be scrapped. If teams are level at full time - 90 minutes - then go straight to penalties! But what do I know ( or care!
I hate pens. Maybe cos I tend to be on the losing side as a City and England fan, but just seems so against the spirit of the game.
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Hasn’t the devaluation come as a result of increased televised games?
I was born in 88 but I’m led to believe the final was a national event and was the only televised game all year. Or one of the rare ones?
every game is now available somewhere.
clint van damme
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It's hard to describe what a huge event the FA cup used to be.
It was 'FA cup day' not just the final. Coverage started at about 10am and the whole country tuned in regardless of whether your team was involved.
Being a rare televised live game was definitely part of it.
I'd wager if someone had done a survey at the time, win the league or win the cup, there'd be a surprisingly high number choose cup
I doubt anyone would now
Skybluedownunder
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If you want to win the tie as a smaller club, your best luck is in extra time.
If you get the replay you’ll lose the 2nd game as they will take it seriously.
Go to extra time, win the game and make your money in the next round.
No replays from me thanks
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If you get the replay you’ll lose the 2nd game as they will take it seriously.
Go to extra time, win the game and make your money in the next round.
No replays from me thanks
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Yeah at this point I’m taking promotion over the cup.
that being said those 2 minutes between Torp’s goal and it being disallowed are arguably in my top 3 football moments.
incredible scenes… instantly had the thought of how was I getting out of my wife’s birthday for the FA Cup final
SkyBluePower
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Works both ways too.. Orient now in the 4th round after beating Derby on Pens. A game they would have probably had little chance in at the return leg at Pride Park
clint van damme
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Good point.
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT
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It's been reported that non-league clubs are to ask the FA from next year if they get into the third round of the Cup and get drawn against a Premier League team at Home, they would like the choice to play it at the Premier League teams ground.
I think that's a fair solution, win win all round.
I think that's a fair solution, win win all round.
Legia Sky Blue
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While I understand non league clubs wanting the guaranteed extra money for playing games against PL teams away rather than at home, this idea detracts even more 'romance' from the cup, and would simply make progression even easier for the big PL clubs.
If ever a PL club is to get beat or made to struggle against a non league team it is going to come when PL 'superstars' are made to play away slumming it in facilities they see beneath them, and which they feel uncomfortable with, so I would rather keep things as they are and not allow clubs to give up home advantage.
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT
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Thanks to the FA and the Premier League big clubs the romance has gone out of the FA Cup already, they don't even play the first team until the quarter finals, just degrades the competition.
Irish Sky Blue
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Another backward step if that happens
I would have taken winning the FA Cup over promotion last season. I’m not daft and understand promotion would be transformational in terms of revenue, of course. I’m assuming there are many of a certain vintage on here who have 1987 in usernames/passwords. There was a better atmosphere on Saturday than at many league games and I also think Ipswich will be a decent occasion with a chance of an upset. There’s also the opportunity to play in Europe - the one bucket thing list left to do with Cov.
Old Warwickshire lad
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Yea but apparently they bought in a rule that the smaller clubs could not switch ties to make more money,then scrapped replays.
Need to now to scrap the first rule and let the little clubs who are drawn at home,choose to play it away and get a big pay day.
Need to now to scrap the first rule and let the little clubs who are drawn at home,choose to play it away and get a big pay day.
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT
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Agree the FA would sell their souls for the highest bidder.
MalcSB
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Especially as it was all according to current rules.
I think the top 6 should be encouraged to fuck off and help form a European Super League
MalcSB
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We have already played in Europe. Trakia Plovdiv and Bayern Munich
Of course, that was before Sky created football.
MalcSB
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It would be the “lower” club’s choice and not compulsory.
Obviously I’m aware of that but it has nothing to do with my point. I was talking about my bucket list which would involve watching Cov play in Europe. I’ve been going since ‘85.
MalcSB
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Fair enough, I re-read your original post before seeing this one and realised that’s probably what you meant. It wasn’t clear and unambiguous though. If you had put that it is “my one” bucket list rather than “the one” bucket list left then it would have been obvious.
My one bucket list thing left with Coventry City is promotion to the Premier League. My bucket list fantasy is, having achieved promotion, back to back victories over Man Utd, Man City and Liverpool. I’m not worried about in what order or even the score lines - 9 points will do.