Once a not to be missed game whoever was in the final. How many will there be like me who will not bother to watch today. I,ll check the score and might watch the last 30 minutes in Palace have a good lead just to look at the city fans and pep going pop.

The powers that be have made it worse by their idea of making it better for their profits.
Gone are tha actual family days at home watching the teams motoring to Wembley on their coaches from their hotels, plus the food and drink, even as kids and me mam’s cousin managing the winning team in 62….except she never told us till years later
Great days though especially at my nan’s house.

Its all gone like remembering the proper christmases we had as kids that bare little or no resemblance to the ones we now have.

What a great day of entertainment with Eurovision on after..............

Brilliant isn't it?

I bought two "new old stock" Betamax tapes off ebay to record them - so that I can enjoy them over and over again in my twilight years.......





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…Eurovision on afterburner of Tornado jet …..done to a crisp………surely?

The Cup Final used to be a proper family occasion - regardless of who was in the final, as it was one of the few days that a whole game was shown live on TV - pre Sky Sports.

The rise of Sky / PremierShit and the outrageous money the players were starting to be paid has killed it off bit by bit.
Another significant marker for me, was the year Manure decided they were too big and important to play in such a menial competition anymore, to play in an even less important world club championship.

Recent years has seen the kick off moved around from it's traditional 3pm kick off. ITV winning the rights to show it, meant the introduction of regular advert breaks and also the fact that it is no more the last match of the season - as it always used to be thanks to TV scheduling again.

This season they also got rid of replays, which were always a big money-spinner for the smaller clubs, And the bigger teams only take it seriously once they get to the quarter finals.

The playing of semi finals at the new Wembley has also had a big impact as pretty much all teams have had a chance to play there. Fans are also reluctant to shell out twice for potentially TWO Trips in the space of a few weeks- particularly in the current financial climate.

It really has been allowed to become a shadow of what was an unmissable family and friends occasion, through the greed of a few, wrecking it for the many.

Agree with all of the above Kettering, the FA Cup Final should ALWAYS KO at 3pm, regardless of who is playing and however much the greedy TV companies bleat about advertising income etc etc.

The best bit of your post however was the reminder that 'Manure decided they were too big and important to play in such a menial competition anymore' - how times of changed for that once all-conquering club and it's obnoxious, arrogant fanbase. Long may their slump continue!

It used to start about 11. 30 with the British Wrestling and then the build up for a 3 00pm kick off. Always on the BBC for the best commentary. Happy Days.

Go back through the archives of the bunker around early May and you see the same topic again and again. Semifinals at Fucking Wembley done it for me and millions of others..KUNTY FA...FACT!!!

BTW...didn't even know they were playing...FACT!!!

HT and City with all the possession are losing!
In an 'end to end' game City would out score Palace but trying to break down a packed defence when holding onto the ball risks a 1-0 defeat and it would serve them right imo.

Well done Palace!

Enjoyed that. Really glad for Palace.

Great result and i was very disappointed to see that spoilt brat (Peppy) gob off to the palace goalie...............overrated prat in my opinion.

What did Spit the Dog say/do? I missed it.

It was after the game. Don't know what was said but he looked like the arsey one. His gobbing seem deliberate maybe to keep the cameras off him.

Henderson should've been red carded and City should never have had a penalty. These I cidents show the value of VAR - none! Instead of talking about refereeing mistakes its now talk of VAR mistakes.
Either scrap VAR or make them a separate entity to the refs and linos, too much protecting their mates.

Millionaire’s beat multi-millionaires. Well done Palace. Not exactly minnows but relatively speaking they are.

Irrespective if a goal scoring effort was denied or not but Henderson hand balled the ball outside the box, I only watched the highlights, did City even get a free kick, was Henderson booked for deliberate hand ball ?
Definitely not a penalty, the defender got the ball first then the City player fell over his legs, justice was done when the penalty was saved.

I don't even know what the score was apart from some clues on this thread...I'll check on BBC Sport now.

Just watched 6 minutes of highlights...well done Palace. Surely the MOM was the Palace keeper.

I only watched from 2nd half because the beer garden sun went in.

10 minutes of injury time
Why
Peptime

that about sums it up. the only simalarity to pools is all the laws of the game are the same.

Pleased for Palace as from memory they treated us well when we played them in the FA cup when Graeme Lee was in charge.

It’ll of meant so much more for their supporters than City’s as it’s their first major trophy.

Accy aren’t you an ex ref. what is your view on the Henderson decision ?

personally due to his feet being inside the penalty area i,d have let him get away with it even if he did break the laws of the game. at times its as much about selling your decision to players rather than following strictly to the laws. think i,d have been able to sell a non decision rather than one to penalise him which would have ended up in sending him off. mind you being a bit of a carl boyeson i,d not have been that close to the incident to be 100% sure.

The thing is that VAR agreed he handled the ball outside the area but decided it wasn't an obvious goalscoring opportunity. So no question he deliberately handled outside the box. The obvious question then is why the f*ck did he do it if he didn't think there was a goalscoring opportunity? If that were the case he could have just left it alone.
They've replaced dubious refereeing decisions with dubious VAR decisions, to the detriment of the game.

V A R is S H I T E

In order to play any game that requires a referee or umpire, human errors cannot be entirely eliminated. Even VAR has a human making decisions so what is the alternative? There isn't one so just accept that errors are part of the game and cannot be eliminated. Discuss them by all means but don't lose sleep over them; that's for those with a financial interest.

money has caused all this to happen in the first place with a wrong decision costing clubs. thing is players make mistakes that costs their clubs also. be better for the people everyone seems to forget, the fans who attend, if VAR is scrapped along with slow mo and freeze framing incidents for the armchair crowd that the match officials cannot use on split second decisions. anybody who is not prepared to see mistakes being made need to stay away from sport.

You mean let him get away with a sending off, it should at least have been a free kick as he hand balled outside his box ?

yes. unless you were dead in line with the incident live it was not clear, obvious or intentional. not interested what VAR or slow motion said as that is what brought up the didcussion and not a split second referres take on it.