Cup Magic! (FA Cup)

Member Name: mr_shagwell23

Product:	FA Cup
Date:	29/03/01 (14 review reads)
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Advantages: Best cup in the world

Disadvantages: nothing

The F.A cup is the best domestic trophy that can be won by a team anywhere.
This isn't because the cup is worth a lot, which it is, but thats not the point.
Its because there is an element of magic produced by the F.A. cup each season, the magical ability for footballing minnows to topple the footballing giants.

At grounds there are different atmospheres, a buzz because it is a cup game. People turn out for the match when they may not go to the league games.
It truly is a wonderful cup.

But why?
This is what I didn't understand when I was younger, why everybody makes a big deal out of the fact that its a cup game.
The fact of the matter is, it requires a lot of talent for the big teams to come and play on poor quality pitches and against battlers rather than quality players.

Wycombe Wanderers are a fantastic example of what low clubs can achieve, and they are battlers. Their football isn't attractive to watch, but they scrape and they battle until the match is won.
That is what has got them in the semi-finals, and that is the beauty of the cup.

If we think about it, it is only 8 games away the final when the competition is begun (for league clubs anyway), yet it will take 40 games to win a league and yet no-one gets the same buzz about watching a league match as they do the cup.

The fact of the matter is, the FA cup is the trophy that every team wants in their trophy cabinet and its the trophy that all the fans want to see there.
Wicked!!

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