It’s still a fairly big deal if your team wins it though. For match going fans definitely and Liverpool and united footix get a day out in the pub with a nice drinking time kick off. And they can slag rivals at work and on the internet
I woke up the Sunday after last years final so drunk I didn’t even remember the result until I logged on here.
That was one of the key decisions. I think the FA Cup was still recognisably the FA Cup up to and including 1996 or 1997 at a push but even by 1998 there was a feeling of decline. By 2002/2003 that feeling of decline was written all over the competition.
Somewhere in the 1990s league crowds started shooting up and Cup attendances began to dwindle. It used to be the Cup that would get the bigger crowds.
I think there’s an argument that the League Cup is a better competition to watch these days as at least there’s no pretence about it.
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1:10 in here:
“At Stamford Bridge only 7,000 turned up in midweek for the league game, but over 34,000 were there today for Chelsea against Sheffield United in the Cup.”
Also linking for the Primal Scream acid house soundtrack.
BBC football coverage used to be a thing of greatness.
Fantastic to see more people watching womems football than the biggest rivalry in the GGA
What’s the story behind Man Utd pulling out of the FA Cup that time? Could they not just reschedule the game?
Fixture congestion but the real issue was the government really wanted them to go to Brazil.
They were dead right to play in the club world cup
ok guys, lets focus on the WNT being more popular than the biggest rivalry in bogball
Dunno but it was to do with the World Cup bid at the time. So the government pushed for it.
The gutless fuckers rolled over and did what they were told, but in truth they didn’t give a fuck about the FA Cup.
It’s wonderful to watch how badly they’d love to win it nowadays.
Id say more bandwagon country given there’s one common denominator there.
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Priime time tv wagon you mean? As in our most definite gold medal was the rower lads and they only got 4s cos it was during the morning. Everything else was evening/night time.
You do love giving out about ireland.
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Not much interest in Wiffen’s gold medal it appears.
I’m still cringing thinking about the punditry and commentary of wiffens bronze. I’ve genuinely never seen anything like it. The cockiest predictions ever in a sport we’d absolutely no history in against a strong field. And then doubling down when it was obvious he was beaten. more or less completely took the good out of what should have been a historic medal for their own sport
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Contrast to athletics where predicted top 6 as a good result for relay team. In fairness a lesson was learned.
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Some solid propoganda from media rights people here. Where on earth Enders are coming up with this line “there is still a widespread misconception that sports viewing has declined at the same pace as the rest of broadcast TV due to increased competition” when the opposite is quoted regularly to almost becoming a cliché, I don’t know.
Several Major League Baseball teams could be in trouble next year as a major regional sports network collapsed.
ESPN seeing their cable carriage fees collapse and their plans to put in an anti competitive sports tier they own has been nixed by the courts.
The streamers have already come in with their $$$ and the FTA have already written the cheques to try to preserve their audiences along with the cable companies. The number of operators in the U.S. is set to shrink and that will further impact rights.
The direct debits of Boomers paying for Sky will definitely continue to decline (Sky have always been shakey with admitting what they really are for sports) and the Premier League model in the U.K. will have to change imo.
In fact the rights have declined from 2016 already along with other sports.
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Any mention of what part dodgy boxes have to play in all that?
None-
Not as big an issue in the U.S. but a massive one in the U.K.
I expect by 2030 (end of the next rights cycle) that Sky or others will be showing a lot more FTA Premier League games, particularly the bigger ones.