FA Cup replays scrapped

[PontBlue]

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Or just banned PL teams from it.

Or maybe just clubs in Europe but with the winners still qualifying for a European Competition

[J R Hartley]

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Yes, I agree that fans of clubs may enjoy the group stages and I’d love us to be involved. But I’d find it annoying if our manager, if it ever happened, then complained that we were playing too many games and the players were tired.

It would be more exciting for fans of the not so glamorous clubs having a chance of progressing through the old two legged system. Unfortunately the days of Malmo, Hamburg, Forest, Bruges etc are long gone. Cup games and competition should be all about ‘on the day’ not a long drawn out execution.

Sadly those days are long gone regardless of the format. The big European clubs now snap up the very best young european (and south american too) talent from a very young age. Gone are the days the very best talent in Holland all coming through the Ajax first team at the same time.

There was a good article in The Athletic on the subject recently, in particular the eastern bloc teams of the past and how we wont see that again.

In some respects thats why the Europa League is a bit more interesting for the neutral and football romantic come the latter stages, although Seville started to ruin that by winning it every year!!

[Dembe]

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Ive said that for many a year, league cup for teams not competing in Europe.

Won't happen, there'll be some bollocks about sponsorship, but thats definitely the way to go.

[Dembe]

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Or maybe just clubs in Europe but with the winners still qualifying for a European Competition

Don't they qualify for the conference league? Im only asking as im not sure. I think th best way would be for the league cup to be played by teams that don't qualify for Europe. I think replays should stay up until the later rounds like they had as well.

[J R Hartley]

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Won't happen, there'll be some bollocks about sponsorship, but thats definitely the way to go.

Yeah the sponsors wont be happy if the big boys are not in their competiion, youre right

[Dembe]

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Yeah the sponsors wont be happy if the big boys are not in their competiion, youre right

As pointed out on talkshite, who the **** drinks carabao anyway?

[J R Hartley]

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As pointed out on talkshite, who the **** drinks carabao anyway?

Erling Haaland

if Jamie Redknapp wears Skechers then anything is possible.

[Porth Pouncer]

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I think premier teams sometimes have a bad day and then beatable. There is more chance of the bad day happening in the one game scenario

[splott parker]

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Sadly those days are long gone regardless of the format. The big European clubs now snap up the very best young european (and south american too) talent from a very young age. Gone are the days the very best talent in Holland all coming through the Ajax first team at the same time.

There was a good article in The Athletic on the subject recently, in particular the eastern bloc teams of the past and how we wont see that again.

In some respects thats why the Europa League is a bit more interesting for the neutral and football romantic come the latter stages, although Seville started to ruin that by winning it every year!!

They are I know. I’m just reminiscing about the competitions of my youth, through rose tinted specs as well, no doubt. Perhaps us older fans are lucky in a way that we’ve seen most formats in our day. None of us witnessed the original FA Cup format though, when it was the FA Challenge Trophy. The winners of the previous season were automatically in the final the next season, waiting to be challenged by the team who got through the preceding rounds. Wanderers had to play a series of friendlies to warm waiting to see who they faced in the final TV would be apoplectic nowadays

[The Lone Gunman]

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It's understandable that people are blaming the big boys for the scrapping of FA Cup replays, but the irony is that Manchester City take the competition far more seriously than the likes of Cardiff City do.

We've reached the stage where mid-ranking League One clubs are making rafts of changes for FA Cup ties. The situation has got that silly.

[J R Hartley]

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They are I know. I’m just reminiscing about the competitions of my youth, through rose tinted specs as well, no doubt. Perhaps us older fans are lucky in a way that we’ve seen most formats in our day. None of us witnessed the original FA Cup format though, when it was the FA Challenge Trophy. The winners of the previous season were automatically in the final the next season, waiting to be challenged by the team who got through the preceding rounds. Wanderers had to play a series of friendlies to warm waiting to see who they faced in the final TV would be apoplectic nowadays

Thats mental

Youve probavbly already seen it but if not theres docu drama series called "The English Game" on Netlfix which is a good watch. From 2020.

Mainly about the start of the pro game and the first proffesional players and teams back in the 19th century.

As a football romantic I enjoyed it.

[TWGL1]

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According to the Premier League it ‘gives away’ £1.6 billion every 3 years to fund the football pyramid. That £1.6bn includes parachutes payments so presumably Jamie Vardy’s £140k a week salary is part of grassroots? TBF he needs dosh to buy Rebekah phones lost in the North Sea.

https://x.com/kieranmaguire/status/1781199838245241046?s=61&t=opXYWu2ILhmySD2aRt-GNg

[splott parker]

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Thats mental

Youve probavbly already seen it but if not theres docu drama series called "The English Game" on Netlfix which is a good watch. From 2020.

Mainly about the start of the pro game and the first proffesional players and teams back in the 19th century.

As a football romantic I enjoyed it.

Yes, saw ‘The English Game’ a while back, even the BBC missus enjoyed it. I do love football history and admit to being stuck in the past. I can reel off facts from the 1880s to the 1970s much more readily than the 1980s to the present day. The ‘Big Match Revisited’ is a case in point, I easily recognise the players despite them not having their names on their shirts much more than I recognise today’s players.

[Dembe]

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Erling Haaland

if Jamie Redknapp wears Skechers then anything is possible.

Thierry Henry eats Walkers crisps now as well.