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Armed with a brand new camera, I was sure that Dulwich Hamlet would provide me with what I needed.
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Here’s a little treat thanks to Spartans fan Ross Teasdale. With due respect to Mr Ian Brown, a Dublin DJ has added commentary from Blyth’s 1978 FA Cup Run and the Spartans fans to give … F.E.A.R a new lease of life.
Ross: “It brings a tear to the eye and the hairs on
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Have you ever noticed that it’s almost impossible to find out FA Cup scores in the early rounds?
Well so have we – so we decided to fix the problem using Twitter.
If you are going to a cup game this weekend and you are on Twitter, if you use the #facup hashtag in
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Given the dearth of collated replay dates [hint hint to the FA], here’s the ones we’ve found. Please tweet/DM/email the ones we’ve missed, bound to be loads.
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The new season must nearly be here, for the FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round fixtures are out. This season we’ll have the usual sloppily arranged previews/reviews/randoms, some attempted arty photos of ephemera and possibly some exciting new stuff that will no doubt please one or two people, annoy a few others and be met with significant indifference by the vast population of England, nay, the WORLD.
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It’s not the FA Cup but the essence of a local derby is very cup-like. Bragging rights to the victor, the vanquished has to wait another year (at least) for revenge. Derbies are effectively regionalised cup finals. And, as it’s not top flight, therealfacup can just about get away with a Championship derby – and what better one than El Tractico, Ipswich Town .v. Norwich City. This is going to be very painful reading … Matt Townsend
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You’ve heard from the runners up in The Real FA Cup’s Team Of The Year, Hythe, already and now we hear from the winners, FC United of Manchester. Sparing us a few personal, honest and thought-provoking words on FC United and his relationship with the FA Cup is Ed Barrett. As a founding member of FC United, Ed has an equal share in the club and an equal say in running it, just as it should be.
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Just before the transfer window slammed shut, we snapped up the highly sought after young buck, Stuart Fuller, from theballisround for an ‘undisclosed fee’ right from under the noses of Chelsea. WIN! West Ham 3 Nottingham Forest 2 was his poison …
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We’ve been a bit quiet on therealfacup in recent weeks due to other commitments. Well, this isn’t our real job you know? We’ll be back up and running in the new year when the FA Vase and/or Trophy will no doubt get our attention and we’ll hopefully be spreading our wings further afield.
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The draw for the 9th Round of the FA Cup is here and, for some odd reason there are only two teams left in!! We thought there were 5 or 6 rounds left yet but, apparently, no, it’s all down to the last two already.
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The Not Real bit of the FA Cup hove in to view and we watched with interest. Fat Boy Slim and Hells Bells did the honours … shame they didn’t choose some non-league legends, ho-hum. Vampire Jim cheesed up the ante and it flew past in a second. Here are the ties that interest
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In the first of a new series we ask Gillingham’s defensive stalwart and gig obsessive, Matt Lawrence, what music means to him. It’s not Luther, it’s not Phil Collins and it aint R&B.
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We follow non-league football teams, on the whole, we don’t much like that phrase but someone didn’t like ‘low level football’ and we used that – well, one of our contributors did. What do you reckon? Over sensitive or a fair point?
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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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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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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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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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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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Updated Real FA Cup Official Song …
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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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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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… 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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As the FA Cup is now, essentially, over and the other domestic tournoi are either awaiting the …
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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 …
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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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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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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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A Ryman Premier League diversion for the real FA Cup. Not something we’ll do regularly but Tooting & Mitcham …
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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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The draw for the 9th Round of the FA Cup is here and, for some odd reason there are only two teams left in!! We thought there were 5 or 6 rounds left yet but, apparently, no, it’s all down to the last two already.