Category "News"
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August 26th, 2010
Dynamo, Corinth & Emley
It’s FA Cup Prelim weekend. We’re off to Corinth, a nod to Dulwich, a wave at the Charlton Brothers, lighting up the Dynamos, West Ham get a fright and the tale of one club becoming two and heading for a possible FA Cup match up.
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June 24th, 2010
Episode 3 – Kiwi
This week, New Zealand are the star attraction, round up of recent games, ‘Call My Fact’, The Bard, Ilunga Mwepu, Chris Waddle, Alf Di Stefano and Mark Knofler, Mark Bresciano and some coach theft.
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June 16th, 2010
Episode 2 – Sweaty Socks
Call My Fact, Media Watch, the games so far, SWEAT, Peter Drury, Scotland, Ryman Smeltz, the People’s Johnson, April 25th, reportage from 50s America, Weiss, Dunga Style and the poor lad Corden, who I am now starting to feel a bit sorry for.
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June 9th, 2010
Episode 1 – Vuvu Pygmy
Episode 1. South Africa, Media Watch ‘Hit Wood’, Vuvuzelas, The Poor Man’s Ian Rush, Pigmies and will Gabriel Clarke and Gabby Logan get cosy while following the England team around South Africa? What happened to El Tel and will Jurgen Klinsman put the boot into England?
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June 3rd, 2010
Podcast: RealWorldCup
Well, here we go. Our first tentative steps into the world of the podcast. Not new, no bells and whistles and you’ve stopped subscribing to loads of others. You may …
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May 13th, 2010
The Unwatchable Final
Can anyone except Chelsea and Portsmouth fans really be arsed to watch this year’s cup final, or even read a piece about whether anyone can really be arsed about this year’s cup final?
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May 10th, 2010
Yachtsmen Drown in Bay
No, I also can’t believe I had the gall to keep that appalling headline … THE FA Vase final was perhaps always going to be the most likely source of season finale for therealfacup
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May 4th, 2010
Vase Final – Football Special
… how much of a life highlight would it be to sit in the England dressing room, coveting the seat on which Goldenballs’ golden balls have perched, hanging your hoody on the peg that supported the full weight of Rio’s wardrobe…
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April 26th, 2010
The Real World Cup
As the FA Cup is now, essentially, over and the other domestic tournoi are either awaiting the …
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March 25th, 2010
FA Cup Semi Finals Are Rubbish
FA Cup semi final musings. There’ll be no previews here, just musings, we just don’t give a shit about any of the teams, except Villa … but when was the last decent semi??
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March 21st, 2010
Kiwi Encounter
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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February 21st, 2010
Sutton Bogged Down
A Ryman Premier League diversion for the real FA Cup. Not something we’ll do regularly but Tooting & Mitcham …
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February 12th, 2010
FA Cup – Filth Round
We mean Fifth Round of course but the remaining teams really are a rag-tag bag …
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February 9th, 2010
Chertsey 1 Whitley Bay 1
As I Tweeted after the game, this game annoyed me. Immensely. For several reasons. For several reasons. I wrote my original match report on the Sunday and it was, essentially, a hatchet job on the Chertsey fans. I thought better of publishing the match report and thought I’d give it a few …
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January 27th, 2010
And The Winners Are …
ROLL THE DRUMS!!! PUT DOWN THE RED CARPET!! IT’S THE REAL FA CUP 2010!!
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January 19th, 2010
And The Nominations Are:
Nominations for this season’s Real FA Cup Awards: Best Player, Best Game, Best Ground, Most Helpful Club, Team of The Tournament. Have your say here… Sign up if you need to, we won’t spam you.
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January 15th, 2010
Who Won The 2010 Real FA Cup?
In our eyes, the 2009/10 FA Cup is drawing to a close. The soulless big boys have now barged in to spoil the party and the pundits are slavering over an apparently corpse-like competition …
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January 3rd, 2010
Fulham 1 Swindon 0
Over the last two season’s we’ve been searching for the romance of the FA Cup
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December 22nd, 2009
The Season So Far – Part 3
Another half term report, this time it’s all gone a bit Sussex. Up this time are Horsham YMCA, East Grinstead Town, Hastings United and Farnborough.
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December 18th, 2009
The Season So Far – Part 2
Festivus approaches and therealfacup continue to ponder the road that they have travelled, in the words of Mr Mister.
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December 13th, 2009
Notts Co .v. Forest Green
It’ll be winter, New Year in fact, we’ll be freeeezing. You folk have chosen to send us off to the north with a virst glass dicket do dottingham.
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December 7th, 2009
The Season So Far – Part One
As the reflective period of festivus approaches therealfacup decide to ponder where they’ve been and who they’ve seen.
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November 29th, 2009
Big Time Charlies Arrive
The FA Cup 3rd Round draw has been made and pundits everywhere have been beside themselves with boredom at the outcome …
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November 23rd, 2009
South 5 North 2
Four pubs, seven goals, 70 stewards and a handful of fans. Brentford racked up five goals, two for Charlie MacDonald, two for Myles Weston while Graeme Armstrong notched twice for Gateshead.
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After last night’s games and with a few days left of the season, the Ryman Premier League has to be one of the most exciting in the country. It’s good for us, especially, as we’ve seen and/or grown fond of a number of the clubs in this league through the …