"I understand the sentiment around it and I certainly believe in the competition and what it does offer every part of the ...

AS FA Cup replays fade into the history of high-level football, some of us gently mourn their passing. Others don’t care a toss. Their view was similar to Henry Ford’s — that history is bunkum.

But in the FA Cup a draw has traditionally meant a replay and the truth is that for many involved in the cut and thrust of the modern game, replay had become a dirty word. Welcome to the other ...

In the previous 154 years of the FA Cup, they would have earned a money-spinning replay at Tottenham's stadium to earn the club a once-in-a-generation financial windfall. But not ...

The FA Cup already looks a little different this year following the scrapping of one of its oldest traditions. Replays from the first round proper onwards are no more after the FA struck a new ...

But it wasn’t the frustration of waiting for results that ended them — it was, according to the FA, the expansion of Uefa competitions. Translated into reality this means that for clubs in the ...

Scrapping FA Cup replays was a move made with only one thing in mind – keeping the big clubs happy by reducing the number of games so their poor players don’t get all tired and grumpy.

In the previous 154 years of the FA Cup, they would have earned a money-spinning replay at Tottenham's stadium to earn the club a once-in-a-generation financial windfall. But not this year.

We hear it every January, when the FA Cup’s Third Round kicks off and the Premier League trawlers cast their driftnets to sweep the remaining minnows: ‘the FA Cup used to be great’.

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