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Abdul19
July 6, 2023, 9:20am

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Why stop there, get them in the extra preliminary round.


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Quoted from aldi_01

Playing the final on the same day as the last day of the league? That makes no flipping sense, I may have read that wrong but I’d that’s a suggestion then they’re clearly more clueless than we first thought. They’ve played it before the end of the season before, I’m sure of it and I guess that links in with Wembley availability but not on the same day…



I think the plan, I use that term loosely, is for the Final to take place on the penultimate Saturday, with all the Premier League fixtures then taking place on the Sunday that weekend.

To avoid a Gijón type incident they'll always play all the final round of fixtures at the same time.  Who am I kidding...it's not for integrity, it's so Sky can hype it up as a Super Mega Final Day Finale, even though everything is all but settled by the final games.
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They’ll be playing the final Saudi Arabia next.


Careful what you wish for.....the Spanish league has played their Super Cup game (the equivalent of the Charity Shield) in one of the Middle Eastern countries and may have played their cup final there as well - I'm certain about the super cup, may be wrong about the Copa Del Rey.


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Careful what you wish for.....the Spanish league has played their Super Cup game (the equivalent of the Charity Shield) in one of the Middle Eastern countries and may have played their cup final there as well - I'm certain about the super cup, may be wrong about the Copa Del Rey.


Yeah, the Italian Super Cup's been held in China, Qatar and Saudi too.


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Yeah, the Italian Super Cup's been held in China, Qatar and Saudi too.


Didn't know that, cheers.


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Quoted from LN8Mariner
In my opinion the easiest thing to do would be to reinvent the Football League Cup. No Premiership teams which solves their “issue” of potentially playing 3 or 4 games extra for most of them. Then make it more of a round robin and ditch the Papa John’s combining them perhaps into semi-regionalised groups of 5 with 2 home games and 2 away games. Guaranteed income, no U23 teams, perhaps allow the 3 promoted teams to the Premiership entry to make it up to 75 teams so 15 groups of 5… maybe include the 2 relegated and 3 losing playoff teams from NL to have 80 teams and thus 16 groups. Top 2 from each group go through to last 32 etc. This will give lower league teams potentially better guaranteed income than the PJ (as Championship teams will be in it) and at least as many matches as Carabao and PJ combined. Can even seed the groups based on previous seasons league standings. Not being in the Carabao may mean Premiership teams look forward to th FA Cup again?


Was thinking along similar lines last night, simply drop the premiership from the league cup (will free up their schedule) and add (if needed) the national league teams, then get rid of the Papa Johns altogether as nobody really wants it, we can then leave the FA cup as it is, but with a 3 pm kick off as it should historically be, its not that hard to implement really.
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Another nail in the coffin for the Greatest Football Competition in the World
Shame for me when Man United had to pull out of the FA Cup some years back to play in the world club competition.


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Shame for me when Man United had to pull out of the FA Cup some years back to play in the world club competition.



They didn't have to - they chose to as it was potentially more lucrative.


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They didn't have to - they chose to as it was potentially more lucrative.
Thanks for putting that straight pal 👍.



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Thanks for putting that straight pal 👍.



To the best of my knowledge, no team has to enter the FA Cup.


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