FA Cup Thread 2012-13

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Shittu

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Perry Groves, Former Arsenal forward
On BBC Radio 5 live: "What's a 17-year-old doing as a ball boy anyway? When my lads were 17, they were more interested in getting a fake ID, going to clubs and meeting ratty old women."

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Awesome

[Ollie the Optimist]

Football


JT GLEE ... Chelsea skipper John
Terry with the FA Cup last season
FA Cup to win back its magic
End-of-term final returns
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By DAN KING and PHIL THOMAS
Last Updated: 25th January 2013
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Latest odds from Coral's Tim Reynolds

NOT surprisingly the top three in the Premier League dominate this season’s FA Cup betting.
We make Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea the 5-1 co-favourites to lift the trophy.
Tottenham are 8-1 to lift the FA Cup with Arsenal and Tottenham both available at 9-1.
Click here for Coral's latest odds
THE FA Cup final is returning to its traditional spot as the season-closing showpiece.
And the climax to the world’s oldest and premier cup competition will also once again have its own weekend.
Cup final day has lost its magic with top-flight games being staged on the same Saturday, as well as the following day.
Last year Arsenal drew 3-3 with Norwich before the Chelsea-Liverpool final, which kicked off at 5.15pm to please ITV.
There were seven more Premier League fixtures the following day and the season finished the Sunday after.
Manchester City’s 2011 FA Cup final win over Stoke was overshadowed by rivals United sealing the Championship hours earlier.
But the Premier League have confirmed in a timetable issued to clubs — and seen by SunSport — that for the next three seasons the regular league season will finish BEFORE the cup final.
The 2013/2014 season will kick off on Saturday, August 17, and finish on Sunday, May 11, with the FA Cup final on Saturday, May 17.


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz2J1XBo4hp

i know its the sun, but if it is right ( ) finally common sense has prevailed. the cup deserves its own weekend. it makes it special

[Marc Overmars]

Once upon a time cup final day was little bit special, even if Arsenal weren't playing I'd make a point of watching the game and sometimes even the build up. I don't think that level of interest will ever be as high again.

[Cripps_orig]

Once upon a time cup final day was little bit special, even if Arsenal weren't playing I'd make a point of watching the game and sometimes even the build up. I don't think that level of interest will ever be as high again.

Pretty much. Throughout the 90s, I watched them all and then early noughties, I had no choice as we were in all of them. Last non Arsenal cup final I watched was 1999

[Xhaka Can’t]

Perry Groves, Former Arsenal forward
On BBC Radio 5 live: "What's a 17-year-old doing as a ball boy anyway? When my lads were 17, they were more interested in getting a fake ID, going to clubs and meeting ratty old women."

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

2-1 Millwall.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Marquis with the goal.

Villa.

[Cripps_orig]

If Villa lose this, surely that's the end for Lambert?