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maxxi Wrote:

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> Alan Medic Wrote:

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> > maxxi Wrote:

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> > > I may need a coupon buster to overhaul EP...

> > > though the gap has narrowed B)

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> > No need to worry maxxi. The 'indigo' rule is on

> > your side.

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> You mean (in a scouse accent) "I just hope for a

> goal and indigo?"


No.....the indigo rule. If someone doesn't reach the 75% participation mark they don't count. Ask RD.

red devil Wrote:

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> maxxi Wrote:

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> > I have SC's prediction for FA Cup Final

> (result,

> > score, time of first goal if there are any) -

> just

> > waiting on you RD.

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> Ooooh, I wonder if that's a clue to what SC has

> predicted?..


Haha... as IF!

Saturday 11th May 2013

Aston Villa 2 V 2 Chelsea

Sunday 12th May 2013

Stoke 1 V 2 Tottenham

Everton 3 V 1 West Ham

Fulham 1 V 2 Liverpool

Norwich 2 V 1 West Brom

QPR 1 V 3 Newcastle

Sunderland 2 V 2 Southampton

Man Utd 2 V 1 Swansea

Tuesday 14th May 2013

Arsenal 1 V 2 Wigan

Reading 0 V 3 Man City

Saturday 11th May 2013


Aston Villa 2 Chelsea 2



Sunday 12th May 2013


Stoke 1 Tottenham 1

Everton 2 West Ham 1

Fulham 2 Liverpool 2

Norwich 2 West Brom 1

QPR 1 Newcastle 1

Sunderland 2 Southampton 2

Man Utd 4 Swansea 1



Tuesday 14th May 2013


Arsenal 3 Wigan 1

Reading 2 Man City 1

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Hard to believe its cup final day

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> Even if it was league cup not fa cup, there used

> to be some excitement



Yup, agree 100%. Sold it down the river years ago. + money/europe.


As a kid in the 70s this was THE sporting highlight of the year for millions and I used to watch from first thing in the morning until the cup had been paraded round Wembley then a mass game of football afterwards, all my mates,family, all supporters, even old grannies used to watch it. Sound like an old git but I'm not sure many under say 35 really understand what it used to be like. I think someone famous from the great early 70s Liverpool team once said, "I've a bunch of Championship medals, i've a European cup medal but I'd trade them all in for an FA Cup winners medal"...can't imagine that now!

the FA just get better, don't they? Brilliantly and effortlessly devaluing their own crown jewel. I want to be sat in front of the telly, a mix of rancheros and ringos to hand, watching the coaches go to Wemberlee but no. Another part of my sporting love given over to idiocy.


I'm all about Wigan today. Just sorry that it just isn't quite what it should be.

Having lost the 78 final to Ipswich I could barely keep still for the 79 final


2 nil up at half time I vividly remember walking down to the beach for a breather an basking in likely glory


Second half... 5 mins left. And then they scored two. I felt physically ill. Genuinely not metaphorically. Then Sunderland not only score the winner but visibly swore on TV. The release...


Then we go and lose the next one in 1980. Can't remember who to

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