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The gloves are most definitely now ON at the Premier League. They’ve leapt across the ring and bloodied the nose of the Coca-Cola League -
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“Typical Germans” said Lord Stopwatch last week after the imaginery-card wielding Frenchman asked for Rafael to be given red. Although Suralex’s ejecta was jingoistic, ironic and geographically challenged …
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Are analytical tools ruining football by mechanising a players’ reactiv thought process and nullifying positive play? A lunchtime thought from therealfacup.
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This is less of a fictitious match review and more of a comment on how the big four are a closed shop for young lower league talent.
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After a gruelling 6 months following the business end of the FA Cup, we needed a break so we removed ourselves from football and headed half way round the world. Actually, it was just a holiday. But never being able …
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Canterbury .v. Otago on 28th Feb
Hawkes Bay v Auckland on 14th March.
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We kicked this thing off out of a sense of disappointment with what we supped at the top table. Have we shed our jaded cloak of anti-football?
This season therealfacup has tried …
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This seems to happen every season of late, commentators noting how attendances are down at this stage of the competition. The theory goes that no one cares about the FA Cup anymore but is this true?
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ITV’s choices for their scheduled matches in the 1st Round of the FA Cup seem to point largely towards the biggest clubs. Is this a good thing?
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Has the magic the FA Cup been eroded by the big money clubs at the top of the football tree?
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Zeitgeist Panini
A semi serious look at how Panini and Big Ron shaped football or, less seriously, how kit fashion evolved in the 80s … the books themselves are documents of the commodification of football from 79-84.