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Just seen Fox advertise the FA Cup Final will be shown on their national channel.

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yes regular Fox 9am PST: 12 noon EST

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so maybe the number of people watching Wigan will reach more than triple figures

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cruel, very cruel.

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Not wrong though :D

It'll be a walkover. Championship side against second.

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You can get 2/5 on Man City to win in 90 mins. How much are you putting on?

http://www.oddschecker.com/football/...v-wigan/winner

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I don't gamble. A fool and his money are soon parted! ;)

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and illegal to do it online.

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That's what they said about Sunderland in 1973, Southampton in 1976, Coventry in 1987 and Wimbledon in 1988.

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Saw the first ad for the Prem games on NBC over the weekend too. Well actually heard it - 'Vindaloo' was playing which got my attention :thumbsup:

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Thank you, I was trying to find that out.

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Seventh in the top flight league, they were that year.

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A perfectly respectable position, is seventh :nod:

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And when Birmingham beat Arsenal in the 2011 Carling Cup. Had to bring that up :D

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I really hope they don't have Gus Johnson as the commentator though. His commentary (with that numpty Ian Wright) on the Man U / Chelsea game on Sunday was downright awful.

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I just grasped the significance. Wimbledon were a power-house back in '88, they beat a team only a hair breadth better.

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Yeah. It wasn't anywhere near the same kind of thing as if they'd been a D2 team (the 1988 D2, as it was).

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It shows how hard it is to shake off a reputation. People still thought of the Dons as if they were still in the Isthmian League.

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Right, even though they were a top flight side for 20 years (give or take).

Not that I liked that they won the FA Cup in '88, of course ...

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Living in London at the time, I was with the Wimbledon fans (in reality i was 50/50 in their end), three league game tokens got you a final ticket.

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I wasn't so lucky as to be at the game, I just watched it round at my granny's house. I was also 9 at the time, so a trip to Wembley wasn't exactly on the cards as it was!

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Yeah that's easy to say now in hindsight but I remember it well. Liverpool were league champions and heavy odds-on favourites to win that FA Cup final. You could still get long odds on Wimbledon even in the final. Not many people gave them much chance. In terms of FA Cup final shocks in my lifetime, it probably only ranks behind Sunderland in 1973, Southampton in 1976 and West Ham in 1980 (which is one I forgot to mention originally).

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Talking of Liverpool. Saw this on the internet:

"Maggie Thatcher dies and now Alex Ferguson retires. Police are searching for a Liverpool fan with a lamp and one wish left"

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:D

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Ha ha! :rofl:

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Still rate the Coventry v Spurs as my favourite FA Cup final

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and it is all over for another year

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That was a really good game...

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Me too.

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Think my OH must be crying into his beer now.. fortunately I'm not there to hear the cursing and wipe away the tears..

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Ahem! Would you like some whipped cream on that humble pie? ;)

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They were cheering quite loudly for supposedly only a few people. :unsure:

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Unfortunately Gus Johnson was indeed the commentator today and I totally agree that he's terrible.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...t-seem-to-care

As for Ian Wright, I've actually been very impressed by him. He has given some useful insight.

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it is a funny old game :)

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I thought he was good to. Not only explaining the what was happening and why, but giving clear insight into what either team should be doing to improve their game.

You'd think after all these years of supposedly inferior teams raising their game, that people would remember that it is the FA Cup, and the big team coming in thinking they had an easy game has been the downfall of many over the years.

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Well yes they did, and it was awful again.

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Whilst I along with everybody else would like to see Villa go down, looks like it will be Wigan.

Sunday was not good for them.

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Wrighty sucked on Saturday!

After the ball clearly struck a player's leg and went out for a corner - even in the replay, he insisted that it never touched him - the darn thing made a 90 degree turn when it hit him!!!

Also, why does he insist that the best thing to do for EVERY free kick outside the box that "he needs to belt it into the wall and hope for a rebound"??????

Idiot.

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Villa? I wanted Newcastle or Sunderland to go down. :)

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