Is the FA Cup becoming boring

[Gabriel]

Tin-foil cut out FA Cups, kids at their local club, and memories of giant killing to get drunk over tonight and for years to come, great tournament.

 

[BlueNirvana]

no pitch invasion, disappointed

 

[Zabbasbeard]

I'll level with you. I don't like Tamworth and I don't like their chairman who, whenever his scabby little club has a cup run, instead of celebrating the win for football reasons, always has pound signs in his eyes and spewing out of his plastic Brummie mouth.

Who says romance is dead.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

It's 3G FIFA rated 2-Star surface rather than grass, but I've no idea what that means. I think it looks a lot worse on the telly than it actually is.

It changes how the ball bounces. I get why smaller clubs want them as it’s cheaper and more versatile, but the concept is no different to the plastic pitches of the 80s.

 

[M23 Citizen]

Fa cup 3rd round day is still one of the best days (currently 4 days?!?) in football.

Always will be.

Away at a big stadium with a proper tribe of Blues is always one of the best days of the season if you manage to pull that out of the bag.

We more often than not seem to get boring easy home games and even when we draw decent teams, we seem to play them at home. Can’t remember having much more than Spurs away last season and the odd few others, going back a number of years.

We never get drawn to go to Anfield with 9,000 of us roaring the team on. Rarely do we end up at Old Trafford and even when we do, they cut our 15% entitlement down to 9,000 when it should be 11,000.

With the frankly pathetic amount of tickets City give to those with ticket points these days and absolutely no chance of getting Anfield and Old Trafford tickets anymore, I always want them away in the FA Cup.

 

[East Level 2]

It changes how the ball bounces. I get why smaller clubs want them as it’s cheaper and more versatile, but the concept is no different to the plastic pitches of the 80s.

It also means they can hire out the pitch to generate income and leads to fewer games being postponed due to bad weather.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

.....it is for Huddersfield !!

 

[Platt Lane 59]

It also means they can hire out the pitch to generate income and leads to fewer games being postponed due to bad weather.

It's a big dilemma for clubs having to sacrifice their all weather pitches when they enter the Football League.
Not only do they make a lot of money from hiring it out, as also said, there are very few postponements.
But, it becomes the focal point of the community, with more locals becoming supporters of the parent club.
My mate played veteran's walking football for Harrogate Town, on their all weather pitch.
They and other junior/local clubs had to find another pitch, when Harrogate entered the League.
This pissed off a lot of local footballers who walked away from supporting HTFC...

 

[ShorehamCitizen]

Seeing as pundits are saying the CL is becoming boring, is the FA Cup becoming boring to with the same finalists as last season ?





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We didn't have a Manchester Derby in the final ever.... Then two came along at once, it's a fix to make money.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

We didn't have a Manchester?Trafford Derby in the final ever.... Then two came along at once, it's a fix to make money.

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