FA Cup Final

Detritus

Detritus

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Was pony. How I miss the Cup Finals of yesteryear. If that's what our showpiece game has become football is doomed.
 
Detritus said:
Was pony. How I miss the Cup Finals of yesteryear. If that's what our showpiece game has become football is doomed.
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Pretty much any game involving mourinho this season has been a bore fest to be honest. His style of play is literally not much better than Allardyce. Its just marginally more successful. It was the same with Chelsea when he was there. Any big game involving his teams is always very tedious to watch. Its just how style.

So don't let this mire your view of top league football. Stick in man city vs Liverpool for example and it would have been much better. But man u earnt their place to be in the final and play how ever they choose. Unfortunately for us, anyone who has watched any man u game this season will have known it was going to be poor for the viewer.
 
Bromley_GFC said:
There used to be a three hour build up on the BBC to the FA Cup final match, now there is just one. It used to be 3pm now it's 5.15pm kick off. Oh and this year the coverage was introduced by an American actor from the film "Deadpool" so yes the FA cup is certainly not what it was.

Even worse than this though, I went to the FA Trophy Final game yesterday and they were serving popcorn at Wembley.

Popcorn should never be served at football matches.
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Bromley they will only serve it if it's bought. So if no one buys it theyd stop selling it and replace it's space on the shelves with something more in demand. Something more profitable. Clearly though There's demand for it as it's still sold. I have to admit i watched the joshua vs klitschko fight there last year and ate popcorn. Sorry. I didn't check if i was allowed to eat it at boxing.
 
I actually quite enjoyed it; first, because Man U's season has finished on a whimper and, second, they weren't really much cop. Chelsea were very well organised with little or no fuss, although with Iniesta hanging up his boots you could see Hazard going to Barcelona, whoever is the manager next season. I was hoping Chelsea would get a second penalty - simply because it came off Ashley Young's arm - but it wasn't to be. I agree; it wasn't the greatest cup final - West Brom v Preston [3:2] still does it for me - but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Having studiously avoided the wedding I thought I'd earned a place on the sofa. Mourinho's good but not that good; as for Conte, who knows but, with Abramovic's UK visa delayed, there might not be anyone around to fire him.
 
Didn`t watch it - too many prawn sandwich "fans" watching multi-millionaire players throwing themselves all over the park..
 
I haven't watched any premier league football this season (not even MOTD) so from my perspective it was interesting to watch those selected by England for the world cup.

I note that our friend Ashley Young still gives it the old dying swan routine.
 
I'm afraid that Premiershit and the thoughts of those two playing the FA Cup Final was as inspiring to me as watching the Royal Wedding.
 
Don't understand the issue with popcorn and football.

I would understand why it would be a problem for sports like tennis or snooker where you need the crowd reasonably quiet, but football is fairly noisy by comparison. So noisy food shouldn't be an issue.
 
Wayne.Kerr said:
Outdoors, popcorn is OK but not in a cinema plase
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So we're not allowed to eat popcorn at football or the cinema. But im allowed to eat it outdoors. What about the outdoor cinemas that are popping up all over the place? Or the uncovered Brian Moore stand?


RainhamGill said:
Don't understand the issue with popcorn and football.

I would understand why it would be a problem for sports like tennis or snooker where you need the crowd reasonably quiet, but football is fairly noisy by comparison. So noisy food shouldn't be an issue.
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Oh come on. I don't think Bromley's suggestion has anything to do whatsoever with issues he has with the noise it makes when people are eating it.
 
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The FA Cup still does it for me and it still produces some special games. As AK says it's Mourhinho doing the boring not the cup.
 
For the majority of premier teams winning the FA cup has no incentive attached.

I think you can qualify for Europe if you win it but most teams have already qualified for that.

I also think it should be 3pm regardless.
 
It might be my age, but cup finals used to be my way of counting time. I grew up in the seventies in the middle of that run of classic cup finals, so I knew exactly what year it was and what happened. You could tell one year from another because the combination of teams in the final was always different. Occasionaly there were second division teams that won it. Imagine that!

For about the last 25 years it's mostly been combinations of the same five teams who I hate, either against each other, or sometimes with an outsider who they duly thrash. The only two exceptions have been Portsmouth that time, and Wigan, and I've just looked that up and realised that it was five years ago.

It's been a blur, really, but as I say, maybe that's to do with getting older. Is it the same for people older than me, who were in their thirties and forties during the sixties and seventies? Maybe some of our old gimmers could shed some light.

I watched the cup final but not the royal wedding, because I was busy reading some dossiers about Siberian grain harvests that my commissar had given me, which was altogether more interesting than either the football match or the wedding, for which I am confident that Surrey Bob was standing dutifully erect throughout.
 
I'm confident that watching the wedding will have made Surreybob erect.

Like you Alderman I was engaged in servicing the party. This time planning the construction of a new labour camp in Eastern Siberia.

Didn't watch the final either. Hate both teams but glad Chelsea won as I loathe Manure even more with Mourinho as manager.

I can reel off every final and score from 1965 to 1990 but as per Alderman, have lost interest since, dominance of a few teams being a factor.
 
I always watch it no matter who is playing though in all honesty the magic of the final has long gone.
I listened to my first final in '48, saw the first on a small screen in 50 and went to the 51 and 53 final.
Going to London for the final if you came from the North or the Midlands was a special day out, for example from a Northern city or town there could be as many as twenty five special trains heading for London, although in my case it was in the sidecar of my old man's motorcycle combination.
Tickets were always a problem, even with a Wembley capacity of 100k, clubs in the final usually were only allocated 25k each and in those days many clubs were attracting home crowds of 30-70k, so many REAL fans lost out when it came to a Wembley final.
Not long now for the new season's fixture list, just hope it is a decent day weather wise on our visit to your place.
 
Bromley_GFC said:
Popcorn at a football match? Behave yourselves.

Against modern football, it just looks ridiculous and sums up the gentrification of a working class game. I can't quite believe I'm having to spell it out for some of you lot.

You'll never catch me purchasing a load of popcorn at the bloody football and in fact if I catch any Gillingham fans parading a bucket of popcorn around me I'll knock it straight out of their hands and it will be going on the floor.

Message to Scally - Please never sell popcorn, forget false stadium promises and expensive season tickets this move would truly see some Gills fans never set foot in Priestfield again.

Hope I've explained myself chaps.
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Thabks for clarifiying. Out of interest, what are we allowed to eat at football matches Bromley? I dont want to risk one of the bigger boys knocking my dinner put of my hands so keen to know before I make that social faux pas.
 
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