FA Cup

I see that the Prem League with the FA have decided that there will be no replays in the FA cup from round 1 onwards. Apparently no consultation with EFL clubs.

Yet again, the rich few ****ting on the football pyramid.

What are your views?

 

Completely agree with what you say. Maybe the new football regulator will make a difference?

 

Surely these decisions should be made by the whole football pyramid, not just a few elite clubs. Did this happen now before the regulator is set up?

 

what has it to do with their fixtures they dont join in till later rounds

 

Typical of the Premiership who think it’s only them in the pyramid and ignore the other 72 clubs
It could cost smaller teams millions in TV rights if there is no replay against the big teams
The EFL should mount a legal challenge to this unfair decision.
What makes what remains of the magic of the FA Cup is the David v Goliath fixtures and replays

 

Apparently they don’t like the fixture pile up coming toward the end of the season partially caused by replays in the FA Cup!!

Tranmere and Grimsby have already put out club statements berating the fiasco - it would be nice if some of the “bigger” Championship clubs did the same!

 

Everybody has heard of Blackburn, Fulham, Lincoln, Leeds and Notts county, but who is that other team Kettering mention?

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Do you mean that team that recently were also a non league team, no sorry their name eludes me

 

The rest of the football pyramid really do need to make a stand against this, lobby their local MP’s etc. it’s the time to be stand up and be counted, before it’s too late.

 

Well they could choose not to take part in the FA Cup if it makes their seasons so terrible !

 

The FA keep referring to “an increasingly congested calendar” as being part of the reason for this alteration.

Whose calendar ? is what I would ask.

Since the play-offs were introduced I am not aware of any difference to the playing calendar for all of the teams outside the PL.

Those teams playing in Europe seem quite happy to bag the spoils from as many games as possible and it’s the same in the international game where the authorities seem to want to increase the number of teams taking part in the World Cup Finals and the European Championship purely, it would seem to me, to increase the revenue stream for those taking part.

Yet again, everyone else loses out.

 

Man Utd started the rot when they pi55ed off to Brazil rather than play in the FA Cup.

It's time the EFL got serous with these greedy selfish ba5tards.

 

I’m seriously wondering whether the rest of us would be better off if the top 6 PL clubs buggered off and played a separate European league, completely bugger off and leave the rest of to our own devices

 

Maybe if we didn’t have several stupid and unnecessary international breaks during the season the poor dears would have more time for league and cup games

 

Absolutely.
Fk them.

 

I think this is tied to the new payment program the PL give to the EFL. I heard c£30m for the EFL, I guess this was one of the ‘sweeteners’.

 

£30m is chicken feed just over £1m each...... they should make it for the top 21 clubs left after PO's ...[at £30m = about £1.5m ]

 

https://www.change.org/t/fa-cup-en-gb

 

Now that the PL season is over, you’d think the teams would want a rest. After all, the fixture list is becoming increasingly congested isn’t it ??

I now see that that Newcastle and Spurs are flying half way around the world to play a f**cking friendly in Melbourne, Australia with the former team in action a few days later against a local team!!

You couldn’t make it up could you?!!