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FA Cup Final - sacrilege
Posted by dai on 27 January 2012 - 1:06am.
Money doesn't talk it swears ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/16747988.stm
Do these administrators know anything?
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"More than half a billion people watch the FA Cup final"
No, they don't.
It's more accurate to say that half a billion people could have watched the FA Cup Final.
In England, 8.5m watched last year's game - which is less than 20% of the population. I think the FA consider that if the game is broadcast in, say, Kenya - then all 40m will be in front of the telly singing Abide With Me and wondering what Tarby's going to say at half-time.
Wankers
one and all.
Forget about criticising
"foreign" managers and "imported" players who don't understand what the FA Cup means to both committed and casual fans alike. I think they probably "get it" rather better than the administrators.
Who gives a f*ck about the FA Cup?
It's a third-rate competition which got the winners entry into a third-rate European competition.
I really don't understand why anyone who has grown up watching football in colour should be expected to have *any* reverence for the over-sentimentalised pewter po.
writing as a non English person...
... because it's the oldest tournament in the world, because the final's at Wembley, because London is a major world city, because the tournament has a fantastic pedigree and reach, and because handled properly it could be an ornament to world football (never mind English football) ... but it's not been handled properly and that's a real pity
Paolo Meccano has a point
but it does beg the question how did we arrive at the situation where it's preferable to limp into fourth place in the league because your rivals have come down with food poisoning before a crucial game (Arsenal are presently exactly the same number of points from top spot and from the relegation zone) than to win a trophy.
"The game", went the quote, "is about glory". It was about glory.