THE FA Cup third round is finally underway ... to compensate clubs for the abolition of all replays. All 32 teams eliminated at the last 64 stage will be paid £25,000 from Wembley funds ...

The FA Cup third round is nearly over but teams ... play any kind of European football at your doorstep, the last thing you want is a replay. "I totally get it. But it's the big clubs getting ...

The FA Cup already looks a little different this year following the scrapping of one of its oldest traditions. Replays from the first round proper onwards are no more after the FA struck a new ...

At some point something had to give and it was FA Cup replays. The loudest argument comes ... a debt finally paid off last year. Such decisions may tidy up the bits and pieces of big-money ...

The FA Cup third round is underway as Premier ... The decision to scrap replays was announced in April last year after the Football Association agreed a new scheduling deal with the Premier ...

But in the FA Cup a draw has traditionally meant ... was fair but the other ties in round three that would last season have gone to replays were Reading-Burnley, Sunderland-Stoke, Coventry ...

SAINTS are back in FA ... last campaign before defeat to Liverpool at Anfield in March. The FA Cup's rules have slightly changed this season with English football's rule-makers deciding to scrap ...

“I understand the sentiment around it and I certainly believe in the competition and what it does offer every part of the football pyramid and I think it should be protected.” This is what ...

AS FA Cup replays fade into the history of high-level ... a debt finally paid off last year. Such decisions may tidy up the bits and pieces of big-money football but it is often said “the ...