Boring boring FA Cup

Slow & Blind wrote: Newcastle done one good thing this weekend, £10 adult and £5 kids tickets. The ground was full of families and teenagers there with groups of friends. Not great for an atmosphere but a great opportunity for poorer families to experience the horrific trauma of supporting Newcastle.  Not great for Cambridge financially, they'd have be better off with an attendance of 25000 at £30 a ticket. I'd love to see the FAI replicate it for a game that they are expecting a low attendance for. Fill the ground with families and groups of teenagers for the Armenia match through €10 and €5 tickets.

the fai will probably sell out all our games (perhaps bar the friendlies) at full price given the growing optimism surrounding the side at the moment. 

Edited by colemanY2K - 10 Jan 2022 at 10:02am

Drumcondra 69er wrote: Het-field wrote: doherty wrote: RTE used to show FA Cup games aswell if i remember. They used to have PL games on sports stadium i think aswell. Defo around 92/93/94 im sure I'm right on that. IIRC with a slight delay. 94/95 was almost weekly. I remember 1995/1996 they showed Leeds v Wimbledon (with the Yeboah goal) and never again. They used to have Division One games live at 3pm Saturday pre Premier League for a good few years. Saw a good few extra games live on TV the year Leeds won it for example. The 5-4 Liverpool Leeds game the season before was on live, brilliant game.  There was far more live football on TV over here than in England back then. The delayed games by 30 mins replaced that first few years of Premier League before that got pulled. Remember watching that Yeboah goal alright. And Bruce's winner v Wednesday couple of years before.

There were live 3pm games on RTE in the 00's lads

nothing worse that an nostalgic bore.  Cracking weekend of cup football.   Some cracking competitive ties.   

Also, I’m not sure what it was like in the past, but Cup crowds are different to league regulars. Certainly at WH that’s the case, and it’s brings with it a lot of posers who think they know what attending games means.

doherty wrote: Het-field wrote: The 1993 Man U v Sheffield Wendesday was shown too. I think somebody on here was watching it in a city centre pub, but celebrations had started upstairs where it was on the radio and people heard Bruce’s goal before it was broadcast on RTÉ. I was in Quinnsworth at the time and got a box of Monsters in My Pocket. I remember watching that game. Never knew RTEs coverage was delayed tho. Didn't matter i suppose anyway.

Thst game was on Easter Saturday, remember it well. Was on a JBO to Killarney with football team. RTE had a 30 minute delay. A lot of us were giving it the large to our United supporting mates when Weds were winning. One of the non united fans had popped out to the bookies about 5 bells and came back to tell us that united had scored those 2 late goals, the first on 90 mins. We kept on taunting the united fans who were going bananas. At 89 mins all of the non united fans got up and left the pub. Came back after the united winner and we got it back in spades.

Het-field wrote: The 1993 Man U v Sheffield Wendesday was shown too. I think somebody on here was watching it in a city centre pub, but celebrations had started upstairs where it was on the radio and people heard Bruce’s goal before it was broadcast on RTÉ. I was in Quinnsworth at the time and got a box of Monsters in My Pocket.

Het-field wrote: Trap junior wrote: Also there was far far less football on tv back then so a live game on tv was a bit of a special occasion and a novelty. Now there's far too many games on tv that its just another game. Over saturation of football caused by greed and money. The FA Cup Final is a final of the big business bastards. It will have no soul. It will be Snickers v Nike Man U’s jaunt to Brazil in 2000 was the beginning of the end. The six years in Cardiff didn’t help. They also messed with the times of the final and it has little sense of occasion. But to your point about saturation, for those who didn’t have Sky in the 1990s, apart from European Cup you could go for months without seeing any football between two English teams, and the first week of January was an occasion with a bumper MOTD on the Saturday, followed by a live tie on Sunday.

doherty wrote: RTE used to show FA Cup games aswell if i remember. They used to have PL games on sports stadium i think aswell. Defo around 92/93/94 im sure I'm right on that.