05-11-2015, 11:44
I feel very angry for us and FC United over a Monday night FA Cup game, Don't know how I feel about Salford and Notts County on Friday, except that it eats away what makes the FA Cup exciting - and that is about all the surviving teams coming together at the same time. It gets even worse when the so-called attractive clubs come into the competition (and select most of their reserve players anyway) and the matches are spread out at different times on different days, until you reach the Quarter Finals when only one of the games will be a Saturday 3pm kick off.
By aiming the cup at a TV audience our FA thinks it is widening the audience, but because they've allowed it to become just another television product, when the competition reaches its later stages it is hard to distinguish from the cup competitions of other countries which have never achieved the pseudo-iconic status of our FA Cup. It is becoming a second-rate competition. There's no golden egg to put in the cup and Mother Golden Goose is looking increasingly like Greg Dyke in seedy drag.
By aiming the cup at a TV audience our FA thinks it is widening the audience, but because they've allowed it to become just another television product, when the competition reaches its later stages it is hard to distinguish from the cup competitions of other countries which have never achieved the pseudo-iconic status of our FA Cup. It is becoming a second-rate competition. There's no golden egg to put in the cup and Mother Golden Goose is looking increasingly like Greg Dyke in seedy drag.