10-01-2021, 11:49 AM
The FA Cup used to be one of the key events (maybe even the key event) in not just the football calendar but the Nation’s sporting calendar now it’s importance is so diminished that the final is played whenever it suits the TV companies.
Until the final rounds, it’s regarded as an inconvenience by any team in the top two leagues who are in the frame for promotion or relegation. At the instigation of the ‘Big Clubs’ the competition no longer features replays, I even heard BBC pundits yesterday suggesting going straight to penalties at full time, bound to happen.
All this is driven by money ! As soon as foreign money poured into football, the game changed, foreign owners not remotely interested in the rich heritage of English football and the fans but only in enriching themselves (aided and abetted by the broadcasting giants like SKY) set about reshaping the game and not for the good.
I have supported Pompey since the 1946/47 season and have never felt so distant from the game, if it wasn’t for my love of PFC I would have give up on football years ago not because of our own shortcomings but because of the malign influence of FIFA, the supine attitude of the FA, the EFL, SKY and, above all else, the stench of money in decision making at the highest levels of the game.
Good luck to Chorley, they have profited from the malign influence of those that run football, I hope they get a home draw and make some more, much needed cash: They (like Pompey) are the minnows, the bystanders, the fall guys in the machinations of footballs rich and powerful.
Until the final rounds, it’s regarded as an inconvenience by any team in the top two leagues who are in the frame for promotion or relegation. At the instigation of the ‘Big Clubs’ the competition no longer features replays, I even heard BBC pundits yesterday suggesting going straight to penalties at full time, bound to happen.
All this is driven by money ! As soon as foreign money poured into football, the game changed, foreign owners not remotely interested in the rich heritage of English football and the fans but only in enriching themselves (aided and abetted by the broadcasting giants like SKY) set about reshaping the game and not for the good.
I have supported Pompey since the 1946/47 season and have never felt so distant from the game, if it wasn’t for my love of PFC I would have give up on football years ago not because of our own shortcomings but because of the malign influence of FIFA, the supine attitude of the FA, the EFL, SKY and, above all else, the stench of money in decision making at the highest levels of the game.
Good luck to Chorley, they have profited from the malign influence of those that run football, I hope they get a home draw and make some more, much needed cash: They (like Pompey) are the minnows, the bystanders, the fall guys in the machinations of footballs rich and powerful.