Youngsters really don't have a clue do they

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  1. budmustang

    budmustang Well-Known Member

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    Regarding the FA Cup I mean.

    I'm listening to Luke Potter saying the pressure is off today. What? It chuffin shouldn't be.

    This is the FA Cup. The greatest competition in world football, if not world sport. A competition steeped in history, where every club in the land, whether top flight or amateurs can have a go. When player salary goes out of the window and the dreamers can have their day.

    When did the FA Cup lose respect? When did it become more of a fixture annoyance to the Premier League freakshow? Players should be growing up fantasizing about playing in this competition.
     
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    League games are that expensive teams have to drop prices to get fans to watch a 3rd round matches and most top teams do see the game as a rest to players and give others a run out.
     
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    Really with the formation of the Premier league - the money involved make it far more important for teams to stay in the Prem than progress in the cup - so its become a lower priority. Once clubs stop taking it seriously the fans start losing interest as well. to a lesser extent the same now happens in the Championship.

    Its a shame as when I was young we all went to first round cup games with as much enthusiasm as 4th and then 3rd division games
     
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