In times past, Saturday would have been the meat of the FA Cup third round. After all, the third round is when clubs in the top two tiers of the English pyramid enter the competition. Along with the Cup final, third round Saturday was once perhaps the most hallowed institution of the English game. Of […]
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The FA Cup third round proper kicks off January 8th with Wolverhampton Wanderers taking on Crystal Palace and Aston Villa hosting Liverpool. If both those matches go as I expect, they will need penalty shootouts to resolve. In local time, fans in England would be watching until close to 11 at night. Or will they? […]
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The second round of the FA Cup is over, with ten more matches in the books beyond those I already mentioned in Part One of my second-round impressions. As mentioned, I will describe the best and worst of Sunday and Monday in this part. The last two days of second-round action featured three giant-killings. Only […]
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The FA Cup third-round draw is when interest in the competition really begins to spike. In earlier rounds, you have to be a fan of smaller-league soccer in England to get it. The Champions League, this isn’t. But now come the big boys. When I last wrote, I mentioned that the first round proper drops […]
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I am a huge fan of the FA Cup, the world’s oldest soccer competition. Ever since I discovered the tournament in 2014, I have been eager to follow it intently. Indeed, one might compare my love for the Cup to a 1960’s teenage girl’s love for the Beatles. More importantly and substantively, I’ve been looking […]
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