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Originally Posted by Locke
Look...its not my fault that your clubs are duking it out for some low-rent, third-rate, also-ran Teacup Trophy because its the only slight glimmer of meagre hope remaining in your otherwise bleak and soullessly vacuous excuse for a season.
Okay, I'm totally kidding, I actually like the FA Cup for largely the reasons you stated, today it was a blast watching United play at Prenton Park because that pitch is a nightmare, but for those of us who play on pitches like that (or here in Calgary often far, far worse) week in and week out its kind of cool to watch Professionals play on the same crappy surfaces we have to deal with.
And watching Big Clubs go up against small clubs in small venues is a lot of fun. I often enjoy watching some of the really small matchups where they've cobbled together advertising boards from whatever local businesses they could, seemingly at the last minute.
"Buy Poppa's Pies! The Third best pies available in the South Midlands!"
But I think we can all agree that fixture congestion is a real problem and its only getting worse.
Most clubs just want a result, one way or the other with replays to be avoided at (almost) all costs.
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Yeah and that's the coolest part. Watching the pros play on "real" surfaces against a team of farmers and plumbers is pretty awesome. Did Poch need to bring Kane in against Tranmere last year? Of course not, and if his biscuit ankles crumbled then he'd never have heard the end of it. But those young fans will remember that kind of thing forever. It's really incredible in this day and age to have those huge clubs coming and playing sort of meaningful games all over the country.
Fixture congestion is a problem. Eliminate the Carabao Cup that no one actually cares about as a start, get rid of the replays and you can alleviate some of that though.