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A disgrace
I'm not really a football fan, I don't support any club. I watch Match of the Day, and the occasional live match on sky. As I'm housebound at the moment, I've been watching most of the FA Cup games over the weekend. And I think it's totally disgraceful that some premiership clubs do not seem to take this competition seriously any more. With several premiership clubs putting out basically a second 11 team. Now I know that any footballer who plays in the premiership should be very good, but having watched several games yesterday and today, and a pathetic performance of clubs like Chelsea makes me sick. Chelsea were not the only club to do this, Arsenal got thrashed today as well.
Some of the comments from the pundits was interesting, basically saying the club putting out these poor teams are more interested in winning the premiership or staying in the premiership. What a load of bullocks but unfortunately most likely true. If that's all they're interested in, they shouldn't be allowed to play in the FA Cup, or if they do put out a weakened team and it's a deliberate attempt to preserve their status in the premiership, then maybe the FA should deduct points from them.
If I remember rightly not that many years ago any club who put out a substandard time would be fined by the FA. Maybe they should look at this again. It wasn't only in the FA Cup this weekend, where premiership clubs put out weakened teams. It also happened over the Christmas period.
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That is (almost) literally nothing to premier league clubs compared to league places, CL/EL progression.
However, I agree with you it is a shame and the cup has lost it's magic completely. But in football, money talks
I have no problem with palace playing a weakened teamed tomorrow night, as premiership survival is more important than getting to the 4th round of the cup. It's playing percentages.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youI don't think they take it lightly at all and I don't get annoyed by it as they have so many players now they may as well use them at some point.
I don't really care how my team gets on in the cup and would rather see us do well in the league as it's a more interesting challenge
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It's just about the money now.
On the other hand, yes, a lot of the glitz has been taken off the FA Cup - the final was the biggest day of the football calendar when I was younger. I was living in Coventry in 1987 when they won, the town emptied for the afternoon to watch the telly and then went crazy for 48 hours.
Like any business you have to understand your market. I'm not sure the clubs, the FA and the PL really have a focus on ensuring the fans feel they are getting what they really want - high quality and entertaining football.
Sure, there's entertainment - but it's more like a soap opera sometimes, and business decisions are made with shareholders in mind, not customers - where have we heard that before?
Winner of the FA Cup this year gets £1,800,000
Winner of the Premiership (last year) got £38,832,180
And the Champions League:
The winners of the league stages a team can win £11.4m + £1.35m per win
In the next round the winners will get an additional £5.4m
In the 1/4 finals the winners will get an additional £5.8m
In the semis the winners will get an additional £6.7m
The Runners up wil get an additional £9.9m
The winners will pocket £13.9m (so in total the winners will have a total of £43.2m prize money)
Plus there is £456m on TV revenus to be shared amongst the teams in the competition
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Tottenham also had Kane up front, probably one of the most valuable players in world football, playing against a team near the bottom of league 1. I'm not sure the problem is quite so bad as assumed here.
Also great that our £75 million striker Lukaku finaly scored against top 6 opposition!
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