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03-18-2018 , 06:43 PM

#22326

sixfour

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You'd hold the first at Villa Park and the second at the Cameldome

03-18-2018 , 06:55 PM

#22327

ZAIDS

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If we get past southampton, utd please.

03-18-2018 , 06:56 PM

#22328

valenzuela

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+ 1 to fa cup semifinals on neutral grounds.

03-18-2018 , 06:59 PM

#22329

72off

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fwiw i remember being upset when Salah left, so very possible that mistakes were made

(especially if it did happen during the Mou era of selling everyone under 25)

03-18-2018 , 08:19 PM

#22330

PeteBlow

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Quote:

Originally Posted by PartyGirlUK

Old man rant:

Holding FA Cup semi-finals on neutral grounds was better. First it kept Wembley "special", second it reduced travel time (Everton-Man U & Hull-Sheff U at Wembley seems not great). Plus, stadia other than Wembley being used for neutral matches is cool.

With that in mind - where would this year's semis occur?

Spurs - Man U: Either Villa Park or Millennium Stadium
Chelsea - Southampton: Twickenham or London Stadium

The problem is that there simply isn't a stadium decent enough in the midlands. Villa Park doesn't cut it anymore.
Playing a semi at the London stadium would be as rubbish as any West Ham game played there. Twickenham would be a good option but the RFU have enough trouble getting the local residents to agree to the odd extra rugby match. Two sets of supporters all heading to Cardiff on the same day causes travel chaos.

I agree that Wembley semis are awful, but the only other stadia worthy at the moment are St James', The Etihad, Old Trafford or The Emirates.

03-19-2018 , 05:08 AM

#22331

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Yeah problem is that building a 90 stadium is ****ing expensive and you can generate a decent amount of £££ by having two more sell outs.

It's also worth noting that because of the lop-sided infrastructure in this country, it takes a similar amount of time to get from, say, Hull to London as it does to get to Manchester.

This is complete conjecture but I'd say the FA is closer to moving the QFs to Wembley and having them Fri-Mon than having the SF at a neutral venue

03-19-2018 , 08:30 AM

#22332

BOIDS

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barnet opting for a novel approach to take advantage of the new manager bounce

they just hired martin allen as manager, a bloke that they've hired and subsequently let go on four previous occasions. this will be his fifth tenure

03-19-2018 , 09:48 AM

#22333

Hoopie1

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Pep must be ****ting it.

03-19-2018 , 11:32 AM

#22334

Stu Ungar

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Originally Posted by NicReynolds

Spurs
Chelsea

Chelsea

My order of preference of the semi-final draw was 1. Soton, 2. United, 3. Chelsea.

The above scenario seems likely..

03-20-2018 , 06:37 AM

#22335

8bus

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Originally Posted by Hoopie1

Pep must be ****ting it.

03-20-2018 , 03:01 PM

#22336

valenzuela

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City are so scared of the Anfield magical european nights that aparently they want the police to get involved.

03-20-2018 , 04:21 PM

#22337

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Originally Posted by valenzuela

City are so scared of the Anfield magical european nights that aparently they want the police to get involved.

Are they mad? Also, like the police in Liverpool haven't got better things to do.

03-20-2018 , 04:46 PM

#22338

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Some guy on twitter said that there should be flares to greet the bus and the manchester media spinned that to Liverpool fans want to illegally receive man city and now its a thing.
Man City fans are claiming this is going be Heysel all over again, Liverpool fans are claiming that Man City is a plastic club that doesnt know how things are done in Europe.
Hey, its an international break and we need to talk about something so it may as well be this.

03-20-2018 , 04:54 PM

#22339

Hoopie1

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City sound like a bunch of dripping wet minges.

03-20-2018 , 07:27 PM

#22340

PeteBlow

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Claude and Robbie were on TalkSport this evening. Just caught the last few seconds so hope they have a recording of it online somewhere.

03-21-2018 , 08:27 AM

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Song sheets and continental-style 'cheerleaders' with megaphones are among the ideas being discussed in an effort to improve the atmosphere at Manchester United's home games.

Manager Jose Mourinho has previously said that Old Trafford is too quiet.

really hope the megaphone nonsense doesn't become part of english football

03-21-2018 , 08:32 AM

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Ra_Z_Boy

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really hope the megaphone nonsense doesn't become part of english football

Jose your turgid football is part of the reason why. Maybe give the fans something to chant about you bellend.

Song sheets? JFC how embarrassing.

03-21-2018 , 08:39 AM

#22343

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Also genuine issues: selling all the tickets for the season in July so the Asian tourists can snap them all up seemsbadman. Rip off the season ticket holders with compulsory purchases wtf.

Reduce ticket prices, sell them to actual fans, stop with the compulsory bull****. Push safe standing as a priority issue at least for small sections to start with.

03-21-2018 , 08:49 AM

#22344

BOIDS

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sigh they released a prototype song sheet. all the stretford end classics are in there

Spoiler:

03-21-2018 , 09:08 AM

#22345

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Originally Posted by Ra_Z_Boy

Jose your turgid football is part of the reason why. Maybe give the fans something to chant about you bellend.

Song sheets? JFC how embarrassing.

11 men behind the ball, tralalalala
We've got 11 men behind the ball, tralalalalala

03-21-2018 , 10:54 AM

#22346

TheGramuel

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Originally Posted by Ra_Z_Boy

Jose your turgid football is part of the reason why. Maybe give the fans something to chant about you bellend.

Song sheets? JFC how embarrassing.

Fun fact!

Man United and their awful turgid park the bus football has resulted in just one fewer goal in the premier league this season than Spurs' brave free-flowing Englishmen (and Danes/Belgians etc) have produced.

Perhaps it's not actually that bad.

03-21-2018 , 11:29 AM

#22347

BOIDS

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goals aren't the only factor in entertaining football tho. for a start, mun have had 100+ fewer shots on the oppo goal than have spuds

and anyway, munfan expects. even if goals were the only factor, one fewer than 'lads, its roflspuds' doesn't cut it