interesting articles from last year

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The Copa seriously needs to be revamped in these early stages and the big teams should think hard about what is really best for them. Granted they all got through in the end, but playing over two legs means there is the added risk of players getting injured in these games (Bar?a?s defender Lilian Thuram limped off at half time), plus they can hardly argue that they gain revenue when their stadiums are more than half empty, there were only 35,000 at the Bernabeu, while only 30,000 bothered to turn up to see Bar?a despite tickets being available for as little as €10 for adults and €3 for kids. The public are bored by these games and most would love to see the format of a single game as used in England and Scotland. If the big clubs really believe that the current format is defending their interests, they should meditate on the fact that Bar?a haven?t won the Copa since 1998 while Madrid have to go back to 1993 for their last win.

tho at least they both got to final at last i suppose

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Madrid typically doesn?t take Copa del Rey all that seriously, and get sent home early as a result. I love the idea of an all Spanish tournament, and I wish Madrid would try a bit harder. The last time we took home the trophy was fifteen years ago, and that?s a long drought for a top flight club.

Posted By: SCC 28 on May 11th 2009 at 00:22:18

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Oh great, Scum Sports is not showing the copa del rey final for the second year in a row, (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 00:00:57
- but even the spanish don't care about the cop del rey (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 00:12:06
  - ^^^^Load of bollocks^^^^ (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 00:12:47
    - in what way (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 00:13:56
      - In a way that you've just posted the biggest load of bollocks since (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 00:14:34
        
        Can you explain it to me please H ? (n/m) (Other Football) - Arganth, May 11, 07:27:18
        
        It's a really popular final in Spain because of the night it's shown on (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 11:29:30
        
        That and the obvious Uefa spot available (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 11:36:59
        
        good to see you argue your point as well as ever... (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 00:16:25
        
        interesting articles from last year (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 00:22:18
        
        sorry just realised both didn't get to final (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 00:31:48
        
        Reasoning with you is futile, you're not on here to talk about anything (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 00:41:31
        
        well i only said the spanish don't take it seriously (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 00:48:08
- Viewing figures (Other Football) - Yellalee, May 11, 00:03:58
  - Would have made more sense to show both, then when mafia are 2 up at half time (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 00:08:03
    - Doesn't matter - Prem game with Utd in it = 500k viewers. Spanishers = 60k (Other Football) - Yellalee, May 11, 00:17:32
      - I don't as much anymore, cos it's just a pantomime now (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 00:23:39
        
        I'm glad I dont see it like you do - i'm genuinely ingorant to all of that. (Other Football) - Yellalee, May 11, 00:26:59
        
        Yeah, I'm a bit more relaxed about it now, that spurs game, as soon as they went 2 up (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 00:29:13
        
        Utd were all over them from the start of the 2nd half though. No way (Other Football) - Yellalee, May 11, 00:36:13
        
        Fair do's, I stopped watching cos I've seen it all before (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 00:46:37
        
        Yeah, I dont know enough about it to disagree - same old clubs still always win it though, (Other Football) - Yellalee, May 11, 00:52:45
        
        because the english still take it seriously (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 00:54:19
        
        Spain takes it serioulsy, again (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 00:57:05
        
        it was fairly recent that all the big 4 failed to score one weekend (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 00:50:21
        
        I don't give a shit what you think (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 00:52:13
        
        i wasn't saying what i thought (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 00:52:56
        
        round and round and round (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 00:55:39
        
        yeah i clearly live on this forum (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 01:01:07
        
        and i wouldn't say it's shameful (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 01:05:08
        
        You live to sniff around at any thread on here where it looks like you can piss someone (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 01:03:42
        
        trolling poker sites wtf (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 01:08:20
        
        like here (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 01:11:20
        
        yes, like here, where you've missed what I meant, or you've taken it out of context (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 01:42:10
        
        i was offering an opinion about spanish football (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 01:47:59
        
        and he ignores us because we took the piss (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 01:51:41
        
        so because you know it then (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 01:59:17
        
        the replies to him are a joke (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 02:04:37
        
        lol (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 02:07:33
        
        well i won some money at poker (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 02:13:08
        
        That's cos you're so great (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 02:15:34
        
        no it was to tell you i got what i wanted tonight (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 02:20:02
        
        I had a feeling I might be wrong again (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 02:25:33
        
        it takes a lot of dedication to be a great poker player (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 02:26:42
        
        Explains (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 02:29:43
        
        he has me on ignore (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 02:33:33
        
        he appeared to go on tilt (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 02:34:34
        
        they still had to score 2 more goals tho (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 00:30:29
      - 60K is pushing it a bit imo (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 00:23:22
        
        That's what it got last week - Real - Barca... (n/m) (Other Football) - Yellalee, May 11, 00:24:41
        
        sorry i meant for this final with man u also on (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 00:26:07
      - Actually, make that 1m, not 500k... (n/m) (Other Football) - Yellalee, May 11, 00:18:35
        
        I'd be fine with them not showing it if they stopped showing the early rounds (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 00:26:25
        
        Yep, that is a good point. But in reality it is purely the clash with the other game (Other Football) - Yellalee, May 11, 00:28:52
        
        It sucked that there was nothing else stopping it last year, sky just didn't have it on (Other Football) - pants, May 11, 00:30:42
        
        yeah that is pretty ridiculous (Other Football) - SCC 28, May 11, 00:28:06

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