Is the FA cup worth it?

[keith]

Having watched the game between Chelsea and Man City reserves on tv. Feel sorry for all those that pay good  money to travel to and get into the game only to watch a reserve game. How do they get away with it. May aswell scrap the competition. And they want to make it a mid week competition next season. FA has gone mad.

[redverscrimper]

Yes...maybe there is a trophy too many. But it is not the FA Cup that is the problem. That came first. If something should go, shouldn't it be the League Cup?

But....the FA have only got themselves to blame for yesterday's mismatch. Both teams have important Euro games coming up this week. They asked to play on Friday or Saturday and the BBC refused to reschedule it. How can the BBC dictate when games are played?

There again...here I go...back in the good old days, players used to be able to play a bit more regularly without it doing too much harm. Players are wrapped up in cotton wool these days. I can imagine the reaction of my teammates back in the Seventies if I had turned out in the Sunday League wearing a pair of gloves. I watched a player yesterday taken down in a tackle writhe around in agony for a bit then get up as if nothing had happened because the ref didn't call a halt to play.