Date and time confirmed for City’s FA Youth Cup trip to Leeds
A date and kick-off time for City’s FA Youth Cup fifth round trip to Leeds United has been confirmed.The game will be played ...
The rise and fall of FA Cup replays… from origins 153 years ago to Arsenal needing FIVE games to advance one round
AS FA Cup replays fade into the history of high-level football, some of us gently mourn their passing. Others don’t care a ...
theroar.com.au7d
Binning FA Cup replays disproportionately affects small clubs - and kills the magic
"I understand the sentiment around it and I certainly believe in the competition and what it does offer every part of the ...
Irish Sun13d
The rise and fall of FA Cup replays… from origins 153 years ago to Arsenal needing FIVE games to advance one round
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 ...
Independent.ie12d
The FA Cup of old isn’t coming back, but binning replays will hasten its decline
We hear it every January, when the FA Cup’s Third Round kicks off and the Premier League trawlers cast their driftnets to ...
Reading ease past League One promotion chasers to set up FA Cup tie with West Brom
On this day in 2016, Reading breezed into the FA Cup fifth round for the fifth time in seven years by beating Walsall 4-0 at the Madejski Stadium. ***************************************************** ...
Times of Malta11d
Minnows count the cost of killing replays
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.
BBC18d
FA Cup replays: The arguments for and against
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.