FA must urgently reconsider the Fa -Cup after rows and rows of empty Wembley chairs

Can you imagine that you are a Taylor Swift performance and find rows and rows of empty seats? Exactly, it wouldn’t happen.

But last weekend, for a showpiece facility at Wembley StadiumThere were benches with no one in them.

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It was far from a sold -out and Fa must urgently reconsider their policy Fa -Cup Semi -final.

Push finally came to push as the simple economy of attending competitions in the capital last Sunday as Manchester City against Nottingham ForestTwo large clubs located many kilometers from Wembley, bumped into the final for a place.

What greeted the millions of armchair viewers around the world, would like to tune into the oldest football competition of all? Thousands of unused plastic red seats.

First of all it is not good. TV companies will not be happy with this.

Trying to sell a tournament if there are empty seats in abundance is difficult, if not impossible and it damages the image of the competition.

A lot is said about the ‘magic’ of the FA Cup, but the TV reporting on Sunday will ask many to ask why fans do not appear.

This is not an excavation in the city at all. They are one of the best supported clubs, but can only shift 27,000 of their 36,230 allocation.

This was their 29th Wembley trip since the stadium was renovated in 2007, so that you can understand why a touch of fatigue of London started.

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Ticket prices cost between £ 30 and £ 150 and then you have the 400-Mile return.

Throw in food and drink, plus the Russian roulette of catching a train and you can see why thousands of die-hard fans said that is enough.

Two clubs ask to travel so far from their fan base is not only expensive, it is also illogical.

Why not use much closer high -quality locations, such as Villa Park or Old Trafford.

Wembley must be reserved for the final. You may think that is traditionalist, but some traditions are worth keeping.

It always had a real appearance and it was a kind of footballing El Dorado.

By placing semi -finals there, the FA has diluted their own competition, resulting in more than 17,000 empty seats on Sunday.

It is not as if this was a rare event like the 2023 FA Cup semi-final between the city and Sheffield United attracted less than 70,000 in the stadium of 90,000 capacity of Wembley.

In 2019, just over 71,000 lived the semi -final between Brighton and city.

I think that both common sense and a common decency are needed.
When two clubs from the capital meet in a semi -final of FA Cup, I see the logic in hosting Wembley.

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But dragging Noorderlingen hundreds of kilometers to London, with the enormous costs, seems complete madness.

Football must take care of its traditions and nothing more than the FA Cup that, since it started in 1871, has seen 44 different clubs lift the famous trophy.

It was won by Blackpool and BurnleyWimbledon and Wigan and the FA Cup must be cherished and respected.

Perhaps the most famous FA Cup gigantic goal of all the Screamer of Ronnie Radford to help Niet League Hereford in the 1970s in the 1970s.

Ronnie’s reaction has fallen in folklore while he celebrated his hands up, belly out, with a big mouth in disbelief.

The fans’ reaction showed what it meant for the good people of Hereford. Wouldn’t have been the same with rows of empty seats, right?