FA Cup final day and hardly anything posted about it.

[Brin]

When I was a kid it didn't matter who you supported as come Cup final day our house would be full of kids off the street as we all sat/stood around our TV to watch the greatest cup game in the footballing world!

Where has all that excitement gone? Is it because we've all got older and the spark just isn't there anymore?

The FA Cup final now all but a damp squib of the world's footballing map

Anyway, come on Palace lift that cup and deny the 'money' club of this.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

When I was a kid it didn't matter who you supported as come Cup final day our house would be full of kids off the street as we all sat/stood around our TV to watch the greatest cup game in the footballing world!

Where has all that excitement gone? Is it because we've all got older and the spark just isn't there anymore?

The FA Cup final now all but a damp squib of the world's footballing map

Anyway, come on Palace lift that cup and deny the 'money' club of this.

the world has moved onto the Eurovision song contest

[Stansmate]

Did get tickets once late on a Friday night and went to the Forest v Spurs final when gazza did his leg.

Old Wembley 90odd thousand there an I got sat nxt to a bloke from Brinsworth who was a local ref in Rotherham - he was a baloody Spurs fan !!!!?

No interest other than would like to see Pallis do the Manks !!!

[Brin]

Coming back to this, I recall as a kid getting up to turn on the TV and well before lunchtime, as the kick off was always traditionally 3pm, and there would be Bob Wilson on the BBC with their coverage while on the ITV Brian Moore delivered their's.

Both good presenters at the time but it was Moore who seemed to captivate you more during a match, yes I use to flick over the channels listening to how they both commentated throughout the match.

Now we have SKY who have completely decimated the beautiful English game demanding that they decide what time a game kicks off!
Todays kick off time 4.30pm, not too bad I suppose but for me it's still meddling.

[Stansmate]

Real footy it was then, Saint an Greavsie , Jimmy I?ll, cartoon characters in Daily mirror etc etc. Think there was a competition where you could win two tickets and ?100.00 spending money -( about 5 pints in London today )

Jumpers for goalposts - marvellous !!!

[Scum-Triumphant]

Should be a 3pm kick off the weekend after the end of the league season.

[uttis]

Totally agree Brin used to love the FA Cup as a kid back in the days when it was worth winning, it was an all day job (after Swap Shop!) going to the teams hotel being with the fans going down on the coaches I too think Brian Moore was the better commentator and switched over to BBC when ads came on great daze!

[Nardendee]

Growing up, the cup final, for me was the pinnacle of the game. Only two or three channels on TV, yet the Cup final occupied two of them from about 9 in the morning until about 6 or 7 at night.

Back then it was the FINAL game of the domestic season. It brought the curtain down on the best game in the world and the drabness of having to go 12 weeks before the world started again. 12 weeks of school, exams and all that. It was a very sentimental time. How was I going to cope until August.
European Cup Final and the World Cup every four years aside the world seemed football free. No Sky sports, no nothing really. Looked through the Sunday papers but the only fixtures I could see were the likes of Mooroolbark v Dandenong.
Who the bloody hell were they?

Nowadays the Cup Final is a pre-cursor to the play offs, competing against the Bundesliga Final Day and curtain raiser to yet more Premiership games the following day and football anywhere in the world 24/7 if you want it.
That I guess is the problem. There?s too much of it and too much of everything else, which dilutes it even further.
Solution - how many English teams get to play in the Championship League? Five, maybe 6 (allowing for the Man U v Tottenham anomaly) Well, for me finishing fifth in the Premier League is not a reason for a club to play in the Champions League, and therefore that position should be offered to the winners of, for me, the greatest Cup Competition in the world, the FA Cup!!!

[CAMiller]

I think we've been reminiscing about the demise of the FA Cup Final on MM for more years (about 20) than we actually watched it in the halcyon days (1968-1987 in my case)

[caytonmiller]

All boils down to TV.
Back then it was one of a few games shown live on TV.
These days you can watch a live 2nd division outer mongolia relegation battle any time of day