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But it's the same EVERY season! You go back through NSC and people always say' "Forget the Cup we need to get promoted and we've got a good chance. We don't need the distraction". (At least this season it's a different story!) And you say you've got dreams as well, but they don't extend to...

Well if you're really going to turn round if we reach the Final and say "Meh, no league points at stake so I'm interested" then fair enough. But I bet you don't. And what is football without dreams? I dream of seeing England win the World Cup (again), and I dream of Brighton winning the FA Cup...

Eh? That wasn't the point I was making at all. What I'm saying is all those people who are saying that a Cup game isn't as important as a single league match will soon change their tune if we get to the Final. And we can't get to the final unless we win the earlier rounds. Nothing to do with...

And if we get to Wembley (and stranger things have happened) all these people who "aren't interested" will suddenly become very interested in the Cup.

There are 46, that is forty six league games. Forty six! On their own they are all relatively unimportant inasmuch as throughout the course of those forty six games teams will win games they perhaps should have lost, and lose ones they should have won. They will score and concede last-minute...

I got the same email. No good for me as I need at least two so I'll have to wait and see what's left. I want two together, but if I can't get them then I can't get them. It's not the end of the world and I'm REALLY pleased to see how much interest an FA Cup game has generated. (Although I'm sure...

Well, yes. Probably sold out even quicker if they'd made the tickets a tenner or even a fiver. BoF's point is perfectly valid; if the match sells out then the pricing structure was well-chosen and fair, maybe even a bit cheap by modern standards. (Notwithstanding that I agree with points...