1080 Minutes From Wembley
1080 minutes from Wembley, unless you have to replay.
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Top Field Saved
Earlier this year Hitchin Town successfully fought their campaign to “Save Top Field” from redevelopment. Next steps.
A Sponsorship Too Far?
Why are people so angry that the FA Cup is to be sponsored by Emirates? Has the removal of one word, ‘sponsored’, lost football forever?
The Thoughts Of Chairman Pete
The nervous tension of running a football club on FA Cup match day. Phil Asough talks to Bridlington Town’s Pete Smurthwaite.
FA Cup – Better Than League
Almost every January the tabloids tell us the FA Cup is becoming insignificant and attendances are dropping. We prove that’s bollocks and the FA Cup is better supported than the leagues.
July 22, 2014/ 4 Comments
An Unsure Future For Dulwich Hamlet
After a public consultation on Saturday, the future of Dulwich Hamlet and it’s Champion Hill home is far from clear.
May 9, 2014/ 1 Comment
B-have!
The only comment you need to read on the FA Commission’s b-side league idea. (Not true but have a read anyway).
November 6, 2013/ 3 Comments
FA Cup Qualifying Review
Who were the big winners in the qualifying rounds? Who are on course to be our cherished annual BEST TEAM?!
February 12, 2013/ 1 Comment
Fascism, Racism And The FA Cup
Scott Knowles wonders why some seem to think that the FA Cup needs reforming after enjoying Macclesfield Town’s FA Cup run.
November 29, 2012/ 7 Comments
Bluffers Guide: 3rd Round Day
A handy guide to the niceties and pitfalls of the FA Cup 3rd Round
The Wembley Way?
“What exactly do Budweiser think they are going to get out of this that couldn’t be done in a more humane way? They could chuck carrots around a lot more clubs more constructively, more proactively and more beneficially to grassroots football in general.”
April 21, 2012/ 41 Comments
AFC Wimbledon: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Unpalatable as the thought may be, are AFC Wimbledon turning into the beast that nearly killed them? Kingstonian fan Jamie Cutteridge stares the beast in the eye.
A Rallying Cry
1977/78: Jackie Marks, Blyth Spartans coach, interviewed at St James’ Park after the Blyth .v. Wrexham game by Match of the Day:
November 5, 2011/ 5 Comments
Budweiser: Half Term Report
It’s half-term report time. The qualifying rounds are over and we enter the realms of the ‘proper. What have the FA Cup’s new sponsors done well and what have they done badly?
October 22, 2011/ 11 Comments
Going Cold Turkey
Well, I’m sure it’s all been said, so I don’t think I’m going to add much to the party but the EPPP storm has broken me.
Draw Reaction – Gateshead .v. Hebburn
Gannin’ Away’s Andy Hudson talks to Hebburn’s Dean Nicholson about the FA Cup draw that pitted them against neighbours and Blue Square Bet big boys Gateshead.
In The Park
The FA Cup makes an appearance at a kids’ football tournament, the kids attention span wanders and parents take the Under 10s section far too seriously. Alan Fisher gets it off his chest …
Finding Horley
Juliet Jacques travels from Horley to Horley, returning for FA Cup football and maybe finding something, among the horribly familiar, she’d never encountered before.
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“Ladies and Gentlemen, yesterday at Wembley we might have lost the Cup but you the Liverpool people have won everything. You have won the admiration of the policemen in London and you have won the admiration of the public in London.”
May 31, 2011/ 3 Comments
Hypocrisy Blog
“Let He Who Didn’t Watch The FIFA World Cup Cast The First Stone” – John 8:2-1
