The FA Cup is still a priority for Charlton, says Peeters

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There is a magic about the FA cup but each year (or SKY years) it turns into another game. The BBC have lost interest in it.

I remember FA cup final day was like Xmas day. The BBC put on a show. You get up at 7am and there would be breakfast cup final programme, then 'its a knockout' involving the teams, then a mastermind, then at about noon, Road to Wembley, by which time you would have made up your mind who to support, then you got the game, with banners, and flags, and pissheads, it was fantastic telly. Now the BBC start the programme at 1.30pm , and it lacks any real interest. Its not personalised nor has it any real depth. I don't think I have watched an FA cup final in full for about 20 years.
 
Spot on Typical. Next To Xmas day and birthdays, there was nothing like the magic of Cup Final day. It was pure footballing viagra. Sky cheapened & devalued it, aided by ITV who are incapable of covering football properly (lets take a short break...') & the Beeb, who have replaced the genius of Lynam, Hill. Motson etc with a bunch of second raters.

One of the unforgettable, iconic memories of my youth was David Coleman and

"Clarke....1-0"

<cheers>
 
Jasper Carrott did an excellent song about FA Cup day. It just summed up the occasion perfectly. I cant find it anywhere but it went something like

It was on the very 1st of May to Wembley I did roam
I didn't have a ticket, so I had to go back home
I went round the Indian shop and bought some crisps and beer
I threw a toilet roll at next door's cat for atmosphere .......

x 7 verses

Which kinda reminds me, how much material comics got from attending football matches, Billy Connolly did a great sketch, the Two Ronnies, Jasper Carrot, Dave Allen and Michael Palin all did classic football sketches. I cannot think of a single worthwhile football sketch in the last twenty years from anyone. Why isn't football funny anymore?
 
It used to be the day not to get married on, because all the men would be looking for a telly. I was at a wedding when we played Northwich Victoria, and unfortunately I managed to find a telly.
 
In the 80s I used to watch the BBC Cup final build up, which started around 9am, and then turn over for Brian Moore's commentary on ITV.

Even in those days, ITV's coverage of the big day was awful. Lengthy, but awful. I have one memory of ITV hosting their pre match coverage in a Wembley Executive box, fronted by Dickie Davies (I imagine Dick Plumb looks like his twin...). They sang songs around a piano for some bizarre reason...Saint & Greavsie were joined by the likes of Cilla, and Christopher Biggins (who I understand is a good friend of Typicals....) <doh>
 
I miss the way Cup Finals used to be in my Mum and Dads house. At 11 o clock we all used to appear at my Parents house, my Brother and Brother in Law, with the beers, crisps and peanuts. The women would be banished from the house until the game was over. We would tuck into the comestibles and we would decide what team we would support. After a few beers we would have a heated discussion about nothing in particular and this would continue throughout the game. My Dad was the sort of person who could start an argument in a telephone box.

My Dad died ten years ago and I still miss him and those wonderful days.
 
Royston Vasey said:
In the 80s I used to watch the BBC Cup final build up, which started around 9am, and then turn over for Brian Moore's commentary on ITV.

Even in those days, ITV's coverage of the big day was awful. Lengthy, but awful. I have one memory of ITV hosting their pre match coverage in a Wembley Executive box, fronted by Dickie Davies (I imagine Dick Plumb looks like his twin...). They sang songs around a piano for some bizarre reason...Saint & Greavsie were joined by the likes of Cilla, and Christopher Biggins (who I understand is a good friend of Typicals....) <doh>
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The rumours about Christopher Biggins and myself are totally false. We have not spoken since he left RentaGhost and then he got aladin (geddit)
 
When I first became aware of football in the immediate post-war era, there was still the ***-end of a debate about which was the greater honour, winning the Cup or the League. Unthinkable today. To be fair. I think it was a dated leftover from the days when not all the best clubs played in the Football League, so cup-winners like Spurs and Southampton from the Southern League could claim to be the genuine English champions.

Plus the Cup Final was the climax to a long season, and was of interest to folk who did not follow football, on a par with the Grand National and the Boat Race (two other much diminished occasions these days). Today, with overseas football, the season never really ends.
 
typical said:
Jasper Carrott did an excellent song about FA Cup day. It just summed up the occasion perfectly. I cant find it anywhere but it went something like

It was on the very 1st of May to Wembley I did roam
I didn't have a ticket, so I had to go back home
I went round the Indian shop and bought some crisps and beer
I threw a toilet roll at next door's cat for atmosphere .......

x 7 verses

Which kinda reminds me, how much material comics got from attending football matches, Billy Connolly did a great sketch, the Two Ronnies, Jasper Carrot, Dave Allen and Michael Palin all did classic football sketches. I cannot think of a single worthwhile football sketch in the last twenty years from anyone. Why isn't football funny anymore?
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The only one I can think of is this from Mitchell and Webb, which is more a parody of Sky Sports than the game itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM
 
I remember when the FA Cup Final and England vs Scotland were the only two matches shown live on TV during the entire year. That all changed in '66 when the World Cup was held here, but the lack of televised football in general meant that when those games came around, they were unmissable.

Another thing I remember being special was seeing the highlights on Pathe News at Blackheath Roxy at Saturday Morning Pictures, because IT WAS IN COLOUR..!! It seemed so incredible at the time. It was always the case that, when both teams usual main colours were dark (Leicester City blue and Man Utd red in 1963 for instance), one team would wear all white so they would be distinguishable to the TV audience who were watching in black and white. I think this continued right up to 1969 when Man City wore red and black stripes, and Leicester City wore blue. Colour TV was becoming more commonplace by then.

The TV extravaganzas of the 1970's were manna from heaven. As for Cup Final It's a Knockout, little did we know what Stuart Hall was really up to, but it was all great fun. The build up really was a build up and it was all part of the magic of the cup. Magic days. Magic.
 
eddiefirmani said:
When I first became aware of football in the immediate post-war era, there was still the ***-end of a debate about which was the greater honour, winning the Cup or the League. Unthinkable today. To be fair. I think it was a dated leftover from the days when not all the best clubs played in the Football League, so cup-winners like Spurs and Southampton from the Southern League could claim to be the genuine English champions.

Plus the Cup Final was the climax to a long season, and was of interest to folk who did not follow football, on a par with the Grand National and the Boat Race (two other much diminished occasions these days). Today, with overseas football, the season never really ends.
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Sorry to be a correction Nazi, Eddie, but Southampton didn't win the FA Cup when they were a Southern League team. Spurs are the only club that hold that distinction. The Scummers (oops, sorry... I've worked in Pompey too long..) er, Southampton reached the final in 1900 and 1902 but lost both times.

But having said that, I think you're right about the old Cup vs League debate. It was a general topic of football conversation. The FA Cup Final was always played the week after the league programme finished so there was that end of season excitement about it. Being played at Wembley helped. Seeing the players go up the steps to collect the trophy immediately the match was finished was special, not like the league where the trophy was usually handed over more anonymously. Sometimes in midweek and not always after a game. In 1968, only about eight thousand Man City fans were present when Maine Road was opened up for the fans to watch the players come out in track suits to be given the old league championship trophy.

The league was more important, bread and butter-wise, but for sheer theatre and glamour, the Cup stuffed it into a cocked hat.
 
I used to look forward to cup final day. Typical has it spot on, it was like finding a bit of tinsel in may and being carried back to christmas. I'd squabble with mates at school about who would be supporting who ('you can't support Leeds! My Dad says they're cheating b****rds'), it was on all morning on TV, and it was a game not remotely featuring Charlton (we'd usually gone out in the third round, and even those few times when we got through to the fifth round to go out against Wolves or Ipswich, it never earned us a mention) that I actually got to care who won. I can remember being genuinely gutted when Liverpool beat Newcastle (3-0 WOT?).
But now? My Dad was an Arsenal fan, and died in april so this year I was supporting Arsenal and typically they won when he was'nt around to watch it. But before that, I have'nt made any effort to watch one for years, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. Plus Wembley does'nt look the same any more.
 
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