[Football] The best thing about the FA Cup on Saturday....

[Stato]

That would be asking for UEFA / FIFA to take a look at why the UK has four nation teams while everybody else gets one. Same reason we don't (except that one time) have a UK Olympic football team.

Let's not tempt fate here.

We were all here before those JCLs.

The FA (English, but it just calls itself the FA because it was the first and only FA) founded 1863;
Scottish FA founded 1873;
Welsh FA founded 1876;
Irish FA founded 1880;
Fifa founded 1904 - None of its founding member associations pre-date any of the four British Isles ones.
Uefa founded 1954

Apparently, although the FA joined Fifa in 1905, it has left twice. Once after WW1, when they readmitted the Central Powers, and once in 1928 over 'broken time' payments and definitions of amateurism. When it rejoined in 1946, the first thing it did was request that the axis powers were expelled for their role in WWII.

None of the first three World Cups should really count because we didn't enter. Technically one of the British sides was the World Champion for 30 or 40 years as nobody else had bothered forming a team and playing us.

 

[Triggaaar]

I prefer keeping var.

Without it, the odd human error will always favour the big teams.

Ii accept I'm in the minority.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

I prefer keeping var.

Without it, the odd human error will always favour the big teams.

Ii accept I'm in the minority.

I agree

Despite all the travesties we have experienced, we now get more decisions in our favour, than we would have done relying on the refs and linos.

 

[Bodian]

I detest VAR and how it sucks the joy out of the game for the fan in the ground. It won't go away because the world wide tv audience likes it. It adds a whole extra element of suspense to the game for them.

I mainly watch our games on streams now - with the occasional foray to a northern away game. I hate VAR, even as a TV viewer.

I'm not a Man City fan - but the incident when Sterling's last minute winner in the CL semi-final was ruled out by VAR for something no-one had seen or appealed for was a very early 'last-straw' for me. At that moment I knew it would suck the life/fun out of football.



Add in the Coventry semi-final comeback - and that's two of the greatest moments in football ruined completely. Whoever you support.