I watched City v Blackburn yesterday and noticed the ground was nowhere near full. Again today Forest v West Ham and the ground is only half full. A few years ago any third round tie with a premier league/division one(old style) club playing a lower league team at the lower league team's ground would be a sell out. Not any more apparently. Has the "magic" of the F. A Cup gone, or has the European Championship taken it's place ? Or is it just to expensive to go to every game now?
I think the fa cup really started to go downhill when Man U chose to pull out of it a few years back. That showed that the top clubs didn't really care about the fa cup any more. Its still a decent trophy to win but its not nearly as important as it used to be.
It's lost some of it's importance to fans which is sad but it needs new life a change to the prize money or as has been mentioned a CL spot.
I think it's a bit of everything you mention. The 'magic' has been eclipsed by Euro football and the expense makes it prohibitive especially the games this time of year just after Christmas. It's great cup to win still though
I've always liked the F. A. Cup, and results such as Forest today suggest it can still through up the odd upset. It is the fact that the gates are so low at the lower league grounds even when they have a top preier league side visiting. I remember a few years ago when LFC played Shrewsbury at Shrewsbury and it was impossible to get tickets for the game in Shrewsbury, I was lucky enough to get some via LFC as the company I was working for at the time had 4 season tickets for Anfield. Yesterday the Blackburn ground was half empty and they were playing Man city, a team of alstars put together at ridiculous cost.
The FA cup is being tarnished by some of the half arsed attitudes towards it from belters like Allardyce Momentum is massive in football & dolts like Allardyce are that consumed by their stats & printouts that they miss the simple fact that the prize athletes that they have in their squads would gain more from a morale boosting cup run than from being 'rested' from a 90 minutes match I love the FA cup, it's the best domestic cup on this planet
The problem is that the idea of actually winning things is tarnished by bitters who argue, for example, that finishing 7th is better than winning a League Cup and getting to an FA Cup final. You can't then blame Allardyce/Lambert etc. for following the same idea
I usually say I like it but over the last few years I cannot help but feel it gets in the way of the League.
Talking out your sizeable rear, as per The Mickey Mouse wasn't being discussed, is of no relevance to the conversation & doesn't hold a candle to the best domestic club competition on the planet, you daft twat
They're different competitions you beaut, second is nowhere in a cup competition, 7th in the league is only of any real value if it brings European football with it. Still, it obviously still hurts that we've finished ahead of you in it, for 2 years on the spin.
Second in the cup can bring European football too, sometimes at the expense of seventh depending on the outcome of the other cup
But Lambert and Allardyce don't say they want to sack off the FA Cup because it's worthless, they do so because they want to concentrate on the PL If getting to a FA Cup final isn't worth the difference between 7th and 8th in the PL how the **** can it be worth being distracted from the relegation battle? #doublestandards
They both haven't got a league game for a week, its bollocks excuse In any case Lambert only made 3 changes yesterday, they're just gash I didn't say anything of the sort btw, so don't try & put words in my mouth, you're nowhere near smart enough
This... The biggest perk of the competition these days is Europa qualification In my opinion. And I'm not sure that would really benefit us anyways
