The FA Cup Thread

[Samilktray]

People finally realising Fosse Boy is a patronising arse after all? Hallelujah.

[CosbehFox]

How MK fans would have the audacity to attend is beyond me. Shameless.

I feel sympathy for the fans of MK slightly.

Winkleman is a class A tool. What he did was a disgrace but there is a part of me which believes Wimbledon's support was somewhat idle with their rejection of the MK thing. The boycott was justified but it wasn't disruptive to the men what mattered. Instead it just gave the FA some sort of justification in believing Wimbledon were not needed and a team in Milton Keynes was. Rather like the situations at Chester where their support became so tiny that they were almost forgotten about and then it was only when fans were invading the pitches once in the Conference that the finger was pulled out. Winkleman could have wisely chosen to build a side in Milton Keynes from non-league all the way up, investing wisely and building a sensible community stadium in a city which frankly needs more history/more of a community feel IMO. There's a chap at Truro doing similar wanting to create Cornwall's first league club. One of the reasons from my dislike of MK as a host World Cup city is that the FA have rejected the heartlands of say Leicester or Norwich and fail to recognise that extending the stadium in MK is going to hinder a club and leave them with a white elephant.

However, the citizens of MK who turned up to watch the side should not be hated or condemned. In a roundabout way, possibly applaud. Milton Keynes is the last reaches of the commuter belt....from Monday to Friday for work and then Saturday with familes going to London to watch Spurs, West Ham, Arsenal etc. The hardcore/support MK have built have just supported their local club and reject the opportunity to become a glory boy. A football club for me is very much a vehicle for local pride, prestige and standing. It makes me feel warm when Leicester invades an away end and it's city. The same could be said of MK fans. Many of them could take a moral stand against the ideology behind the club from MK but that would be like you or me stopping our support of City cos of Top the Thai. This cuptie if comes off; they will be the enemies and will endure all sorts of stick which to man as I say is unjustified. They will be there to support their club and city and the club is always the fans!

[C-man]

Brilliant post Cardiff.

[StanSP]

Brilliant post Cardiff.

Agreed.

Totallu agree about the last sentence re: the club are the fans.

[Fosse Boy]

People finally realising Fosse Boy is a patronising arse after all? Hallelujah.

Let it all out chap.

[Tilley]

Let it all out chap.

Well you are.

POTC comes in saying he's looking forward to attending a game in which his team is playing in and you come in on that high horse of yours ramming your 'fuck modern football' message down the throats of people who couldn't give two.

He supports a club and watches them week in week out, whether they are from Milton Keynes or Carlisle it doesn't matter, whether he sits still for 90 minutes or jumps around thinking he is an Italian Ultra, it doesn't matter.

Sooner you realise some people actually enjoy modern football, the better.

[James.]

Good post from Cardiff Fox and well said Tilley.

I did wonder for awhile if PofC had been going round raping mothers but it appears he was just stating he was looking forward to a football game. Fair enough.

[ACF]

Well you are.

POTC comes in saying he's looking forward to attending a game in which his team is playing in and you come in on that high horse of yours ramming your 'fuck modern football' message down the throats of people who couldn't give two.

He supports a club and watches them week in week out, whether they are from Milton Keynes or Carlisle it doesn't matter, whether he sits still for 90 minutes or jumps around thinking he is an Italian Ultra, it doesn't matter.

Sooner you realise some people actually enjoy modern football, the better.

Modern football is shit, just putting it out there.

He supports them, fair enough, he can support whoever he wants, but the way the club was formed in the first place is completely wrong, and there are going to be people like Fosse Boy, ARAB, Bilo and myself who are going to find that club atrocious.

If there was 6,000 fans, 60,000 fans, or even 60 fans, clubs shouldn't have that done to them, just so, so wrong.

Football SHOULD be about tradition, not about a match-day experience, not this plastic, flag-handing-out, identi-kit stadium, confetti-taking over-zealous stewarding, Soccer-AM, shit.

Wimbledon had tradition, however much it be. MK Dons, don't.

If people enjoy that, go ahead, you can enjoy football whatever way you want, it's a free country, but we have out ways, our beliefs, and we should be allowed to enjoy our games they want.

[Guest ttfn]

I've always found it fairly ironic that the majority of the "modern football is shit" brigade are too young to remember what football was like before SKY invented "modern football".

[Shrenchel]

The leaders of the FBs come across as right cvnts. Get off your high horse and stop patronising people to fvck. You are against modern football? Then don't go. Going to a game with the mindset that you are against almost everything the game stands for and you hate the commercialism of it, won't make any difference to the club. 3 or 4 of you walking out mid game because you are angry about how you have been treated? Won't change a thing. If you really want to make a difference then you stop going altogether. You don't stand in the corner singing pro-european songs and anti-everything songs cause that won't make any difference to the powers that be. You don't come onto a message board like this and tell people you are upset and you might hand in your season ticket for the 15th time. That won't do anything. If you are so disillusioned with the game, stop going. And don't lecture other people on how poor their support is because they follow a fairly new team. I don't like MK Dons, but if POTC does and wants to support them, let him.

The argument that if you don't like certain aspects of something you should definitely stop doing it completely instead of trying to improve it is such a ridiculous load of bollocks. If it that was the case in life generally then literally fvck all would ever get better.

I know so many lads that have had enough of the sky-high gate tax, shit atmospheres, other city fans shopping them to stewards/plod etc that they've just given up completely. Ludicrous amount of faces you just don't see anymore. Has it made any difference?! Has it fvck.

There's never going to be a massive organised boycott so to be honest I think a group trying to improve the atmosphere will make more a change than if 20 more lads just joined the long, long list of people that have had enough and don't go anymore.

[ACF]

I've always found it fairly ironic that the majority of the "modern football is shit" brigade are too young to remember what football was like before SKY invented "modern football".

Cheers mate, why not just quote me, would be easier.

I've been in a proper atmosphere, and I've been in a poor atmosphere. I don't want my team to be known for a shit atmosphere. I don't want to be the silent stadium. I want us to be loud, singing songs, proper football. I do the FB stuff because I like what they're trying to achieve. Of course I don't remember pre-Sky football, but the point is still valid isn't it.

Just because I'm young, doesn't mean I can't have my opinion, and stand up for my beliefs, and support one of my mates who shares the same beliefs.

Cheers.

[Guest ttfn]

Cheers mate, why not just quote me, would be easier.

I've been in a proper atmosphere, and I've been in a poor atmosphere. I don't want my team to be known for a shit atmosphere. I don't want to be the silent stadium. I want us to be loud, singing songs, proper football. I do the FB stuff because I like what they're trying to achieve. Of course I don't remember pre-Sky football, but the point is still valid isn't it.

Just because I'm young, doesn't mean I can't have my opinion, and stand up for my beliefs, and support one of my mates who shares the same beliefs.

Cheers.

Cheers. Just a general observation. And if "modern football is shit" how have you ever been in a good atmosphere?

My point is that modern football isn't shit. It's just different. You have your good days and your bad days. Evidently we're not a million miles apart in philosophy.

Cheers.

[ACF]

Cheers. Just a general observation. And if "modern football is shit" how have you ever been in a good atmosphere?

My point is that modern football isn't shit. It's just different. You have your good days and your bad days. Evidently we're not a million miles apart in philosophy.

Cheers.

Over here, I've been to State-League games, where theres only about 50 off us, but we were singing, jumping, we had a flare or two, made a shit quality game decent. I know it's a pretty lame example, but I had the time of my life.

It was quality over quantity.

Then I went to A-League, 2 ends singing the same songs at each other. Same tune and all. Just not enjoyable, for ME anyway.

If people enjoy it, fine, but my belief is that it's shit.

[Finnegan]

Cardiff Fox: 'in a roundabout way.'

Procably just me but I grinned.

[act smiley]

Was going to go to Woking vs. Brighton tonight, but couldn't convince anyone to brave the weather so didn't bother going by myself... and now I realise they've got Elvis Hammond up front. Its inevitably going to be some sort of last minute screamer, and I'll have missed a once-in-a-lifetime thing, isn't it ?

[Ricey]

Elvis Hammond just missed a sitter for Woking

[act smiley]

90:00+2:16 The ball is sent over by Thomas Aswad, Close range shot by Elvis Hammond misses to the left of the target.

... or maybe not.

[Guest Bilo]

The AFC Wimbledon and MK Dons replays are the ones I'll be keeping an eye on myself.

[Guest ttfn]

90:00+2:16 The ball is sent over by Thomas Aswad, Close range shot by Elvis Hammond misses to the left of the target.

... or maybe not.

Hehe... Ass wad

[Joe.]

I did my match reporting module at uni on Woking Brighton tonight, just the first half mind but Hammond looked quite lively in all honesty. Certainly should do well at that level anyway, it's not that long back that he was playing in League One for Cheltenham on a fairly regular basis never mind with us.

And Taricco started his first match in six years for Brighton too! And got sent off.

[lcfc_jme]

Gutted for Elvis. Pretty poor penalty from him there as well if truth be told.

[Super_horns]

ITV might be a little gutted..

MK Dons out so their "dream" tie won't happen.

[Guest Bilo]

MK Dons v AFC Wimbledon tie is off.

Beaten 7-6 on penalties by Stevenage tonight. Disappointing in one sense as a neutral but it saves Wimbledon fans a dilemma so there won't be too many tears in South London tonight.

FC United fans are going to have a big weekend in Brighton as well.

[Craig]

fook yes, lads. Will be getting a ticket the moment they go on sale to season ticket holders/regular away fans.

We're woeful away, though.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[StanSP]

Happy for Stevenage. Their first season ever in League football and as much as I admire AFC Wimbledon, I'd prefer Stevenage to go through in the next round (be it against Ebbsfleet or AFC Wimbledon).