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Originally posted by doherty doherty wrote:

Originally posted by Het-field 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.
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FA Cup used to be the second competition for most English Football fans. Champions League expanding has taken that right over and FA Cup has slowly fallen ever since.

Also, we all remember the good bits of teh 80's/90's FA Cups. I'm guessing there was lots of crap games back then too
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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.
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Originally posted by Het-field Het-field wrote:

Originally posted by doherty 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. 


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nothing worse that an nostalgic bore.  Cracking weekend of cup football.   Some cracking competitive ties.   
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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. 
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Originally posted by Drumcondra 69er Drumcondra 69er wrote:

Originally posted by Het-field Het-field wrote:

Originally posted by doherty 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
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Originally posted by Slow & Blind 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. 

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The tickets for the Qatar game were cheaper than usual IIRC? Seemed to be a lot of families at that game.
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Originally posted by Slow & Blind 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. 

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