When Did The FA Cup Start Losing Its Tradition?

[qblockpete]

Think it capped it off this year, with Noel Gallagher and some gutarist making the draw, we've also had that silly Chelsea **** do a draw and for me its totally undermined.

In many respects in recent years Millwall and Portsmouth have proved you can either win it or get ot the final, but for me its totally losing the buzz and long time since it the FA Cup was a special competition

[G.T.P]

when man united didnt bother to enter it. how the hell did the fa allow that?

[EYR]

when man united didnt bother to enter it. how the hell did the fa allow that?

Id agree,the season it became optional.

[maccatwo]

When money and wags for players was more important than the fans.

[superhoop67]

when the likes of Wenger and Fergason started using it as a Reserve team outing

[EYR]

Also the Champions League is now so big and lucrative everything else is just tinpot.

[UpperP]

For the top teams the need to qualify for the CL and for teams below the need to remain in the PL

All down to readies now I'm afraid

Used to remember sitting in front of the tele from about 9am watching the build up to the Cup Final. Also used to be a preview show on the Friday evening IIRC

[EYR]

FA Cup winners and 4th placed PL team should play off for last Champions Lg spot

[PLYMHOOP]

Agree with G.T.P....... spot on!

[Goddard]

TV.

It was the only live domestic club game on the telly for about 60 years.
It was a special day for football fans. Unique.

Now? it's just another live tv game.


££££ TV £££££

[QPR1234]

money made fa cup lose its magic. fans nor players and clubs dont have that same feeling about it anymore.. football is now a business.. and champions league and the premiership are both far more lucrative than an fa cup

[scarface]

The only way your going to get the fa cup back is too give the team who wins it a champions league spot then you might get the bigger teams taking it more seriously. This wont happen because the top 5 or 6 clubs in the premiership just wouldnt let it happen there'd become scared of missing out on champions league money.

I see holloway said yesterday there's no point in taking a first team down to southampton cos they've got no chance of winning the fa cup! why haven't they a few lucky draws here and there and your in the semis a bit like millwall a few years ago.

The fa cup is dead no one can be bothered to take it seriously anymore which is sad as many of us grew up loving 3rd round saturday in january.

[stanley75]

When they stopped doing "It's a Knockout" between the fans of the finalists on the morning of the game.

[Nodge70]

Advent of the second Premier League TV deal in 1997, which incentified league placing to a ridiculous degree and the guaranteed sums paid to the clubs by Sky. Which means at the end of this season every league place is worth £660,000 on top of which every club is guaranteed a minimum of £10m in tv revenue plus an additional £500,000 for every home tv appearance (with every club guaranteed a minimum of 2) and £100,000 for every away appearance. This means the club finishing bottom of the PL will have guaranteed a minimum of £11,660,000 through domestic tv revenue ALONE before even kicking a ball. Then you have your similar minimum revenue guarantees for qualification for the group stages of the Champions League.

This, plus the FA insistence (at the behest of Tony Blair - trying to get the 2006 FIFA World Cup) that Man Utd withdrew from the competition to play in the FIFA World Club Cup in 2001.

Money killed it.

[UB5 Ranger]

when man united didnt bother to enter it. how the hell did the fa allow that?

Yep totally agree, they should've been banned from entering the competition ever again :rage: