Saturday, February 13, 2010

FA Cup revamp

The sweet FA is considering revamping the FA Cup by doing away with replays and encouraging FIFA to trail new technology in the games, why you may ask, it is becuase they are idiots. Replays while an annoyance to the bigger clubs provide a vital source of income to the lower league clubs, where gate reciepts contribute to a bigger portion of their income, people forget that the reason for competitions like the football league trophy and the large division sizes 24 clubs is preciselly for this reason the more games the more cash. There is also something uniquely british about epics sporting encounters last for days in gruelling competiton, like test matches. The FA's focus should be on maintaining the integrity of the FA Cup and not turning it into a made for TV mickey mouse show. If they want to increase its relavence to the top clubs and wider public, they need to stick it on the BBC, ITVs football coverage is a disaster, and they need to massivly increase the prize money, to champions league equivallence.

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