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Sooooo.... what do we think?...

Come on Villa!

Couldn't give a fuck.

Snorefest

It used to be a really exciting day. Now it's just kind of dropped off my radar completely  :no: :zzz:

Well this has been a successful post..

At least I haven't been insulted, yet..

I'm a hopeless romantic so I still love FA Cup Final day.

Plus - Test Match and, perhaps, the Scottish equivalent before that.

A good day.

Won't be watching it, as Test should be on, but hope Villa win. 

Alright. I don't give a fuck you cunt

Faith restored, thanks.

Fck the FA and fck the FA Cup. Until it's restored back to its proper time of 1500 I won't watch anything to do with it.

Piss off arsenal and shit on the villa.

I'm out for some drinks and if it's on I'll watch it, some of the final magic has gone sadly.

:D

Lost its soul the year they let the red manc cunts miss it imo

4-0 easy win to The Arse.

lost interest after the cheltenham debacle

Both of these sum it up for me.

When I were a lad, it was one of the two live games on TV all season (the other being England v Scotland)

Now, it's just another game which has no real interest if your team isn't playing

It was always THE highlight of the season, the build up pre game on kids tv from 9am like Swap Shop or Tiswas then followed by Football Focus with a massive build up, following the coaches to Wembley from their hotels.....now football on TV is at saturation point and the FA Cup final means nothing as a spectactle any more, partly devalued by Big clubs playing their reserves and Youth players in the early rounds and Man Utd dropping out of it altogether in 1999/2000.

Now its just another game, normally between two Premiership clubs....dull.

As an event, I still look forward to it. In fairness, they're mostly Finals between two top flight clubs and plenty of FL teams get quite far still. 2008 had three non-PL teams in the Semi-Final, that's modern times.

The lack of a 3pm thing is rubbish especially when you know it's to accommodate our friends in the USA etc.

The top level of Non-League football is also largely professional now so that's taken a bit of the edge from the 'Giant Killing' too.

A Conference, sorry, National League side beating a League One team doesn't feel that impressive anymore.

The best final in recent years was the 2006 final when Liverpool and west ham drew 3-3.

I was at Hampden that day at the Scottish version watching Hearts beat Gretna on penalties after trouncing Hibs in the semi final. Great days.

Personally I love the FA Cup! Perhaps some of the romance has faded but its still by large one of sports greatest occasions!

I think my enthusiasm for it has been dampened by working on cup final day the last few years. If I had the day off I'd have some mates over, crack open a few beers and enjoy it. As it is, I'll be listening in whilst driving home from London to Preston, in a repeat of what was rather a miserable journey just 6 days ago.

We're not playing so I couldn't give a flying one, never have done.

I love the Cup Final. Come on Villa!

But I wish the dreadful Abide With Me was dropped. What a boring song. Utter crap. I wonder how many of the crowd know the meaning of Abide.

TOTP2,FACup  :clap: quality tracks on this

I used to watch the hours of build-up, but now I don't even bother with the actual match. Football's crap these days.

This.

I'll watch it if I'm in. 5:30 ko is not helpful though.

Hymn muted. Fucking dirge.

abide with me. has that always been sung at the cup final. if so why?

cracking atmos tho

Quality bit of defending that.

Early thirties I think and it's a Cristian Prayer to God

Early thirties I think and it's a Cristian Prayer to God

Really relevant then. Time to ditch it. Online petition anyone?

And your idea of a replacement would be what exactly.  So tradition is all well and good unless you think it's shit.

I feel for villa fans :cry: :pint: :bye:

No need to replace it with anything. I guess my feelings are that football players & fans in the UK are more diverse than in the 1930s & a hymn to some make believe character seems totally irrelevant.

However I am glad you were stood up in your front room and belting it out before the game. :nod:

Least they were still in it for 40 mins  :doh:

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

 :clap:

And had a fiver on it @ 21/1. Having a good week. 

Pffft, only 89,283 crowd,  not even a sell out  :D

Far from it :-).  I saw plenty of diverse faces singing it out loud from both sides because it's tradition even though nearly all like you no nothing  of its meaning.

arsenal pissed it :(

What's the capacity? Fair few empty seats in front of the camera.

Detest Villa.
Last team to get stuffed 4-0 at Wembley, no longer us.:)
Shit on the Villa.

what a real pity

You must be completely right and I must completely wrong then.

FINALLY YOU UNDERSTAND HOW THE INTERNET WORKS.

In all seriousness I personally think having a hymn at the start is a bit unnecessary. National anthem, yes. But then what makes it different to any other match played at Wembley? You can see the reason why it's been kept. It's a bit of a dirge but I don't have a problem with it being there because it differentiates the FA cup from the L1/L2/conference playoff finals, which, with the utmost respect, are not quite in the same league of pomp really.

Blimey in the days of football selling out and going against every tradition going people want to get rid of the Cup Final song too? Think there's something nice about Abide with Me being sung pre match. Thinking about all those other football fans from previous generations who stood and sung that song, why? Because it happened to be the cup final.

Actually lets not bother anymore, let's do a phone/text vote to see which teams play in the final, take the final on tour around the world and have a 1945 Thursday night kick off time too.

Fuck tradition eh?

I had £2 on Walcott, Sanchez and Giroud all to score at 14/1. Didn't even watch the game but have £30 to play with now :)

I was ready to kiss & make up  :love:  However now you mentioned the National Anthem!!! I really do not see why it is sung before a playoff final. My solution would be National Anthem & nothing else before FA Cup Final and no anthems / hymns at all or even Glad All Over before playoff finals.

I find it embarrassing that almost everyone gets the last line of the first verse of the National Anthem wrong. Correctly it is 'God Save THE  Queen' not our.

Have you ever wondered why the FA Cup is held in such high esteem around the world? It starts in July/August and finishes at Wembley at the final whistle. Including Abide with me and the National Anthem. Similarly all the tourists who flock to London do so because of though not exclusively our Monarchy. The buildings, the pageantry, the members of the total family. Yep, shopping, theatre etc all play a part but that they can get anywhere in the world. Change and progress are all well and good, however, you need to be careful what you take away and consequently what you leave. For me the omission of Prawn sandwich utd a few years ago to play on the other side of the world in exchange for some votes to host a world cup, devalued both the FA Cup and the reputation of English football, the FA and the politically corrupt governing body of football. See where FIFA are now.....

Agree about no need for the anthem.

Yesterday's Spanish Anthem, in front of the King, was classic 50,000 Catalans and Basques all booing.

We never sing about "Rebellious Scots to crush" in the anthem either.

I went yesterday.

Villa were worst than Swindon....no corners and no shots on target!

Also, a shit game for a neutral, unlike last year when Hull went 2 zip up.

Had a beer though!

Good to say you've been to one Flash, and presumably not care about the result.

Not sure I can stomach Wembley again for a year or so

Been to three now....prawn sandwich tickets with work and distinct lack of interest from colleagues and customers....my name is always down. Met some of my customers there....Villa fans and not happy.

Even better

that's because they don't teach it in schools anymore.

good job too-imperialistic nonsense