support your local however bad I like Klopps way of wasting injury time. The ref indicated a minimum of a minimum of 4 minutes of additional time yesterday. Klopp took Salah off after 90 minutes were up, and play was stopped for nearly a minute. As Spurs got the ball, ready to hoof it up for one last attach, ref blew the final whistle at something like 4 minutes, 12 seconds into additional time.Lol
Man United fans moaning about things like this just makes me laugh. The long time owners of Fergie time are moaning about wasting time.
Looking forward to 2/2 on Thursday
All of the seedings and stopping teams from the same country playing each other is purely to guarantee bigger matches later on in the competition so they can keep the money rolling in. Last thing they want is the big Spanish and English teams putting each other out and someone like Benfica getting to the final.
It was a largely rhetorical question, I know everything UEFA does is about money but the FA Cup always seems to do ok without a Man City v Liverpool/Arsenal/Man Utd (insert current next best team) final every year. The final is always sold out and shown on TV so the lack of mega teams in the final isn't a show stopper
Yeah.. I guess the FA care a little bit more about tradition, and it still pays to have one big tie in each round I suppose as they need to pick one to stick on telly. In Europe they're all on telly regardless.
I'd argue the FA Cup has declined massively over the last few decades, for many reasons. The final usually is two big teams, to be fair. Although the Man City versus Watford game in 2018 must have been a more difficult sell for the neutral, and as expected, City battered them 6-0. I think it is relatively easy to fill Wembley for pretty much any final. The fans of the two clubs will always be well up for it, and even if a small team gets through, I bet most of that town / city would love to go to the final for the day out (plus, I don't know how many thousands are sold to non-fans, through sponsors and so on)
