0% Villa - FA cup final

[TaxDodger]

I'm actually glad I'm going to have to revise through this. I hope it's the most boring final ever and Stoke win 1-0 on penalties. I hope Barry misses his, then Milner hits the deciding penalty so far over the bar it ends up in my front garden.. In Aberystwyth.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

TV is marketing the game as someone is going to win their first major trophy in at least 35 years.
Firstly, that still makes Newcastle jealous of both of them.
Secondly, its makes them all very jealous of us.

[olaftab]

Com'on Stoke

[Chipsticks]

I don't understand why people want Man City to win on the basis that Stoke play bad football.

In comparison, that's nothing compared to showing that the best way to win trophies is to spend spend spend. Stoke to win, please.

[TheSandman]

Do Man City play good football?

Or are they depressingly negative and include such fair and clean players as Patrick Viera and Nigel de Jong.

[hawkeye]

the least anticipated FA cup Final ever. I could not give a flying fcku

[eamonn]

Less anticipated than Pompey and...Cardiff (was it?) the other year? Stoke please. Just so Mank City can't take the piss too much as 34 years of hurt keep growing.

[The Left Side]

Stoke I suppose

[richard moore]

Stoke I suppose

Excellent way of summing up how I feel in three words. It just seems such a non-event for a whole host of reasons

[Villa'Zawg]

"Man City and Stoke fans are paying up to £1000 per ticket. Expensive. Then again, if they had saved up since their last final its only 60p a week"

[VillaAlways]

Come on Stoke

[Villa'Zawg]

I despise the football stoke play. Aside from the much criticized long throw which has contributed at least 18 goals in three years they play brutal pub football. People Like pullis and mcleish say its a results business but for the money those of us that go home and away pay it should be an entertainment business.
As for hating citeh is it not a bit hypocritical of us with the money we have spent in recent years. At least they generally try and pass it properly.

We can't surely inflict two pub teams on the Europa league next season it would just confirm stereotypes regarding our football.

I'm sorry I couldn't disagree more. Football is a sport, it has a set of laws that govern how the teams can play and there is nothing in there to even suggest that entertaining Sky viewers is part of game. There is an argument for saying that Delap's throws are the first legal innovation to play that we've seen in the last 20 years.
Its a sport, winning and results is all that matters. I get my entertainment in seeing the club I support beat the others and I don't give shit about any other entertainment criteria.

[tauntonvilla]

FA Cup Final will be played early next season too. Extra rest for the players before the Euro's.

[TopDeck113]

FA Cup Final will be played early next season too. Extra rest for the players before the Euro's.

So in other words, the FA will sacrifice the integrity of their premier competition for the sake of, at best, half a dozen footballers, who within a couple of months will be part of England's glorious quarter final defeat/humiliating group exit.   

How many times have they made similar tweaks to domestic league and cup programmes to absolutely no discernible benefit of the national team?

[*shellac*]

FA Cup Final will be played early next season too. Extra rest for the players before the Euro's.

Why bother?  Quarter-finalist at best.