The FA Cup deserves a Champions league place.

The FA Cup deserves a Champions league place.

After much thought on the matter I can only see positives in having a CL place for the FA cup winners. Over the years the FA cup has become a reserve team cup, it is at least fourth priority for teams behind League Title, CL, CL qualification or in some cases survival. The reason for this is the reward is not great enough.. channel 5 football isn't enough to satisfy most clubs.

Now before you say, well the 4th place team has deserved it over the season, which you'd be right, I'd point you to the World Cup. The WC is a cup competition, you don't play the top 19 teams in the world home and away to become World Champions? I think if your champions of the English FA Cup you deserve a 'Champions' League place. I mean 4th???? Why award mediocrity, you don't get a medal for fourth in the Olympics do you???

The other argument is that the other year Portsmouth and Millwall got to the cup final. Would we want them representing our nation in champs league football?? Well let me tell you a team like Millwall wouldn't get anywhere near a FA cup final if there was a CL place up for grabs. In the 20 years before the CL started, when the FA cup was sort after, it was won, more often than not by a team who finished in the top four anyway!!

And why not a teams like Pompey, or West ham who reached the final the other year , there a lot better than some of the rubbish in the CL at the moment. Imagine what it could do to clubs like that, the money, the players?? They have great support and would deserve it if they come through what would be a very hard cup competition. But more than that, it would give hope to so many teams. It would give the top half a realistic chance of something special come the end of the season. It's getting very boring having the same old teams every year!!

It would only be good news for the PL, if a club had the chance to qualify for CL through the FA cup, maybe teams would find it easier to keep hold of players? It would make teams in England a lot more attractive to foreign players who would think, hey they've got a shot of CL football next year, look how well they did last year in the FA cup.

You cannot get the same excitement from league football as you get from cup competition. Extra time, penalty shoot-outs, a final at Wembley!!! I mean can you imagine the games it could throw up. Spurs v Arsenal FA cup final, Arsenal have finished 2nd and qualify already, Spurs finished 6th after a good season and Liverpool finished 4th but got beaten in the semi's by Spurs..... Now that would be MASSIVE, every football fan in the country and all over the world would want to see the outcome of that, an Arsenal win and Liverpool go through, a Spurs and we would!!!! Come on, how would that feel, every year that last game of the season would give you a dream end to the year for all fans.

At the end of the day it would make the FA cup Great again, every team would want to win it and all sides would put out there strongest sides... as for fourth spot, if it's got to a point in football were 4th is seen as a massive triumph over winning a cup then footballs become a very boring sport in my opinion!

Written by Liamyid

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