The Budweiser FA Cup

[Chazz Rheinhold]

It seems the FA are thinking of a name change for their own competition. Interesting.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...Everton-look-appealing-Manchester-United.html

The Budweiser FA Cup? Please stop
Bringing us the FA Cup in association with Budweiser has proved as appealing as a flat half-pint.
Nobody beyond broadcasters mentions the sponsorship link and most football fans would not even know the identity of the FA’s partner. Now renaming the competition in its entirety is being discussed: the Budweiser FA Cup. Please stop.
It will always be the FA Cup or, to most of us, just the Cup. The only way a sponsor would get value for money is if the FA removed itself from the name, meaning teams would compete for a miserable nonentity: the Budweiser Cup.
A truly radical idea would be for the FA to accept that some family silver is simply too valuable to be sold but that ship appears to have sailed.

 

[Quill]

I thought it was The FA Cup With Budweiser?

 

[johnfirth]

Selling England by the pound what a shame :-(

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

I thought it was The FA Cup With Budweiser?

Try reading it macca.

 

[Quill]

Try reading it macca.

I did, and I pointed out the error in the article.

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

So when the article says

Bringing us the FA Cup in association with Budweiser

you think what??

 

[Quill]

So when the article says

Bringing us the FA Cup in association with Budweiser

you think what??

There's no 'in association'.


To be honest i'm bored and fancied winding someone up.

 

[TygerTyger]

Selling England by the pound what a shame :-(

Stop Drinking Budweiser. We should form a pressure group to stop it. Football Association Till We Abstain. (FATWA).

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

Stop Drinking Budweiser. We should form a pressure group to stop it. Football Association Till We Abstain. (FATWA).

I hate Budweiser, tastes ****, but will still be watching the FA Cup. Go figure.

 

[The FRENCH TICKLER]

The FA Cup is the FA Cup regardless.

 

[Amin Arrears]

The FA Cup is the FA Cup regardless.

No it's not. If it's renamed to the Budweiser Cup it's a brand new competition. The FA cup will no longer exist.

 

[Sir Cheshire Ben]

The FA Cup is the FA Cup regardless.

If that's the case why do you always refer to The League Cup as The COC?

 

[WhittlingStick]

I wonder id Allam would point to the FAs own name change for a bit of moola as an example .
Personally i dont care what they call the FA cup anymore - nowhere else in my life does time stand still , we will all pop our clogs

 

[ellewoods]

I hate Budweiser, tastes ****, but will still be watching the FA Cup. Go figure.

No one likes Budweiser. If it werent for ping pong balls no one would drink it anymore.

 

[The FRENCH TICKLER]

If that's the case why do you always refer to The League Cup as The COC?

It has not been the league cup in yonks.

COC = Capital One Cup. Hope your fog clears a little.

 

[SuitedandBooted]

No it's not. If it's renamed to the Budweiser Cup it's a brand new competition. The FA cup will no longer exist.

So by changing the name they're doing away with all past history and tradition?

 

[Sir Cheshire Ben]

It has not been the league cup in yonks.

COC = Capital One Cup. Hope your fog clears a little.

I knew what COC stands for, as I also know COCK stands for Tickler.

It's still The League Cup yet you refer to it by it's sponsor's name, will you not start to do the same with the FA Cup?

 

[John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.]

Carling cup is better than Budweiser, the beers better, slightly.

 

[Happy Tiger]

It's just a name...it's still the same cup...

 

[Erik]

It's the Football Association Challenge Cup