Next Years FA Cup May Leave A Nasty Taste In The Mouth
Over the last few years, we have come to worry more than a little about the well-being of the FA Cup. Semi-finals at Wembley Stadium, falling television audiences for the...
Category "English Cups"
The 2012 FA Cup Final: Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool
The FA Cup final, sponsored by an American beer, kicking off at 5.15 on a Saturday afternoon while other matches are being played on the same day. It is on...
The 2012 FA Cup Semi-Finals: Chelsea 5-1 Tottenham Hotspur
Since they last won the FA Cup in 1991, Tottenham Hotspur reached the semi-finals of the competition on six occasions and lost every time. It is, perhaps, possible that this...
The 2012 FA Cup Semi-Finals: Everton 1-2 Liverpool
Shortly before 12.45 this afternoon at Wembley Stadium almost ninety thousand people fell silent in memory of the Hillsborough disaster, which happened twenty-three years ago this weekend. It was a...
Non-League Videos Of The Week: 18-03-2012
Cup finals are in the air for our Non-League Videos Of The Week for this week. In the FA Trophy, a place at Wembley was at stake as the second...
Stick Or Twist? A Dilemma For Some Over The Welsh Cup
One of the quieter success stories of the last twenty years of British football has been the establishment of the Welsh Premier League. The foundation of this league, however, was...
How The League Cup Was Won – Liverpool Beat Cardiff City On Penalty Kicks
It has been sixteen years since Liverpool Football Club last appeared at Wembley Stadium. Much has changed in that intervening decade and a half, not least of which is the...
Match Of The Week: Liverpool 6-1 Brighton & Hove Albion
There’s history here, you know. When Liverpool were the kings of English and European football, Brighton & Hove Albion had a curious habit of being able to dump them out...
The New Town Effect: Brutalism & Abrasive Personalities At Crawley And Stevenage
If the draw for the Fifth Round of this year’s FA Cup was notable for anything in particular, what really stood out was the presence of two clubs for whom...
Match Of The Week: Sunderland 1-1 Middlesbrough
The tripartite nature of footballing rivalry in the north-east of England means that this afternoons FA Cup Fourth Round match between Sunderland and Middlesbrough has a hint of being a...
The FA Cup Third Round: Wrexham 1-1 Brighton & Hove Albion (4-5 Pens)
There is, perhaps, little surprising in the fact that the most confusing tie of the Third Round of the FA Cup should involve Wrexham. The Blue Square Premier club –...
Non-League Videos Of The Week: 15/01/2012
This week’s non-league videos of the week features four matches from the Second Round of the FA Trophy. With only thirty-two teams left in the competition at this stage, the...
Match Of The Week 2: Arsenal 1-0 Leeds United
There remains a sense of great expectations surrounding Leeds United. To get a feel for the root cause for this, we only need to spin back four decades, when Don...
Match Of The Week: Brighton & Hove Albion 1-1 Wrexham
That the first weekend of the new year should see the coming together of these two clubs is entirely appropriate. Brighton & Hove Albion and Wrexham had differing experiences of...
The FA Cup Third Round: Brighton & Wrexham – Fans United
The FA Cup Third Round this weekend sees a handful of fascinating ties for the non-league clubs still in the competition, with Blue Square Premier title chasers Fleetwood Town taking...
It’s Yeovil’s Turn To Be Giant-Killed In The FA Cup – Well, Almost
How times have changed. So many times in the past the FA Cup giant-killers, Yeovil Town, now stalwart members of League One were knocked out themselves this evening, at home...
The Decline Of Television And The Decline Of The FA Cup
Confirmation of the live televised matches for the Third Round of the FA Cup came early this year, and while there was no great shock in the Manchester derby –...
The Changing Fortunes Of Cheltenham Town
A plum FA Cup tie away at Tottenham Hotspur, an unbeaten run away from home and whispers of a promotion push – when did all start going so right for Cheltenham...
Match Of The Week 3: Sutton United 0-2 Notts County
Evening falls over Sutton, and with it comes the final match of the Second Round of this year’s FA Cup....
Match Of The Week 2: Stourbridge 0-3 Stevenage
Southern League Premier Division side Stourbridge finally ended their greatest ever FA Cup run at the hands of League One Stevenage at the War Memorial Athletic Ground earlier today, thanks...