FA CUP SEMI FINALS WEEKEND

Do you seriously believe that the fa want to do their corporate/sponsor entertaining at their 'showpiece event' to the tune of Cardiff v Portsmouth, like fuck they do. They want to slap their own and their sponsors backs to a parade of hundreds of millions worth of players with nike etc paying shedloads of cash for an advertisement not just around the pitch but in the programme etc. Would they have really wanted chesterfield in the final? Just imagine the potential outcome of that game chelsea 10 - chesterfield 0, in an fa cup final? Alf the butcher who probably sponsors chesterfields match ball isn't suddenly going to come up with a a few hundred grand for an advert - he might come up with a couple of sheep but i'm not even sure that the abomination of a pitch that they keep putting down is up to grazing never mind professional football.

(10-04-2010 21:43 )m100 Wrote:  Do you seriously believe that the fa want to do their corporate/sponsor entertaining at their 'showpiece event' to the tune of Cardiff v Portsmouth, like fuck they do.

Or Stockport vs Sheff Wed, or Brentford vs Accrington Stanley, or any other imaginary/irrelevant finals that i can dream up

(10-04-2010 21:43 )m100 Wrote:  Do you seriously believe that the fa want to do their corporate/sponsor entertaining at their 'showpiece event' to the tune of Cardiff v Portsmouth, like fuck they do.

So for financial reasons, the FA fix matches to stop clubs like Cardiff and Portsmouth getting through to the FA Cup Final....?

But wait a minute, Cardiff and Portsmouth did get through!!!

It appears that m100 has a lot of explaining to do.

Really?

The match was as boring as anything but at the end of the day Chelsea were (just) the better team and probably deserved the victory, although a 1-0/2-1 win etc. would've been a bit fairer on Villa

Yes Villa were denied a certain penna but not because the FA didnt want it, it's because the ref just got it wrong, it happens

(10-04-2010 22:13 )BarrieBF Wrote:  

(10-04-2010 21:43 )m100 Wrote:  Do you seriously believe that the fa want to do their corporate/sponsor entertaining at their 'showpiece event' to the tune of Cardiff v Portsmouth, like fuck they do.

So for financial reasons, the FA fix matches to stop clubs like Cardiff and Portsmouth getting through to the FA Cup Final....?

But wait a minute, Cardiff and Portsmouth did get through!!!

It appears that m100 has a lot of explaining to do.

If you read any of them properly it says the fa 'want' which is very different to 'fix' as someone else said the split decisions always go towards the bigger teams. If you want to talk about proper 'fixes' we can discuss either of the european finals that leeds were involved in in the 1970's, argentina miraculously scoring the 6 goals they needed against peru in 1978, west germany and austria conspiring to make sure that algeria did not get through the first round of the world cup in 1982 - a game which prompted even the inefficient fifa to change the rules so that the last round of group games were played at the same time and so on.

(11-04-2010 08:33 )m100 Wrote:  as someone else said the split decisions always go towards the bigger teams.

The last disputed penalty in an FA Cup Sem-Final was when Man Utd didn't get one against Everton. Maybe your memory isn't the best and you don't recall that? Or maybe you do but you think Everton are bigger than Man Utd.

It has long been a complaint that big teams get refereeing decisions whether in cup or league games and I suspect there is an element of truth that they get the benefit of any doubt. Does this mean an official "fix" ? no it doesn't. I suspect bigger teams have bigger name players on first name terms with refs they encounter week in week out,and of course better divers.Its the old myth about keeping the numbered balls of certain teams in the freezer before the draw then making sure the cold balls don't get drawn against each other!
Any way its Villa and I wouldn't give them anything!

Quote:I'm 100% certain that the FA didn't fix the result but I'm also 100% that the "big" clubs get the split discisions .

Surely I've had years of Villa fans assuring me that Villa are a big club! ha ha As If!!

(11-04-2010 09:36 )cosmonaut Wrote:  

(11-04-2010 08:33 )m100 Wrote:  as someone else said the split decisions always go towards the bigger teams.

The last disputed penalty in an FA Cup Sem-Final was when Man Utd didn't get one against Everton. Maybe your memory isn't the best and you don't recall that? Or maybe you do but you think Everton are bigger than Man Utd.

The result that day may have owed as much to Ferguson selecting a largely second string eleven rather than a disputed penalty. It may also have had something to do with david moyes pre-match suggestion that the referee, mike riley, was a fan of manchester united, surely a bit of winding up of which ferguson himself would be proud.

(11-04-2010 10:37 )m100 Wrote:  It may also have had something to do with david moyes pre-match suggestion that the referee, mike riley, was a fan of manchester united, surely a bit of winding up of which ferguson himself would be proud.

If referees give decisions to the bigger clubs anyway, as you claim, why would anything David Moyes say make any difference?