FA Cup

The FA Cup is the oldest and most prestigious domestic football trophy in the footballing world. What makes me love the FA Cup is the dramas it brings for teams big and small. Teams from your local regions start competing at the start of the season in the hopes of making it to the later rounds, which most dont end up getting to, but if they do then they will get the benefits of appearing on TV and getting a substantial financial reward for doing so, which can keep a club going for a few years due to the amount they recieve. Getting to the final is hard task to do with many shock results along the way and teams not expected to make the final doing so. Take 1997 for ...  Read the complete review

The Fa Cup is the oldest football competition and is steeped in history. It is such a great tradition in English football and is run by the FA (Football Association) in England. The first Fa Cup final was all the way back in the 1871-72 season. The reason why the Fa cup is so special is because it involves clubs of all standards including non-league clubs. This allows meetings of top teams against so called 'giant killers' who are the lower league teams. The Fa Cup is a knockout tournament with ties for each round drawn at random. There are no seeds so this means any teams left in the draw at any stage can draw any team. The home team is drawn first and the ...  Read the complete review

The FA Cup has long been regarded as the ultimate club cup competition and I confirm that, after what I have witnessed today, it still is. I am a massive Doncaster Rovers football fan and today, we have taken on the mighty Aston Villa and not only matched them, we have played them off the park. Shame it was only a 0-0 draw, but that is really the result I wanted, because only in the FA Cup would supporters of teams like ourselves ever get the chance to go to Villa Park to watch our team. That is what the FA Cup is all about. It is a testament to the importance of the trophy with the team that Martin O'Neill played today against us. He could have ...  Read the complete review

Although 17 of the last twenty FA cup winners have been the current big four premiership clubs there's still a little bit of magic left in the old lady to keep footy fans enthralled. For example, this year's prestigious third round sees the lowest ranked club ever to participate at this stage with the mighty minnows of Chase Town welcoming the hooligans of Cardiff City to their tiny home ground. Chase did very well last year matching this season's feat and could easily nick this game. If they can and get a huge match away then TV money can change a lower league clubs destiny, Exeter City an example of when they held Man United to a 0-0 at old Trafford to earn a televised ...  Read the complete review

For me the FA Cup reached a new low this week, I'm not referring to the dire game last night between Chelsea and Newcastle which helped cure my insomnia but the fact thatfour quarter final games were played over four nights of the week meaning that two teams found themsleves playing only 48 hours after they were playing in the premiership. There was a ray of hope for the competition though in the fact that both managers chose to field weakened sides on the Saturday showing that at least for them the competition was still very important. When those teams got beat they were attacked in some quarters for their actions however for me it is the FA who should be ...  Read the complete review