FA Cup 3rd round

[rhonda boy]

Only a small ground should get about 1500 tickets for away fans...if anyone going to the game use the bars in the town not the ones near the ground

[johnh]

The big surprise of the draw is Arsenal being drawn away. I always thought it was a rule of the competition that they had to be drawn at home.

[Ricardo Da Lepp]

Frustrating for me as my second team is Cambridge United who lost to Newport in the last round.
Would have liked to see both my teams meeting in the cup again!

[DominanceUK]

The big surprise of the draw is Arsenal being drawn away. I always thought it was a rule of the competition that they had to be drawn at home.

No pal, it's Man Utd that do! And lo and behold they get a home draw. I have absolutely no doubt they'll be on TV too. I think, if memory serves me correctly, they've been on TV (FA Cup) a number of times consecutively. I know it's a ridiculous number but not sure how many times it is.

[SCOTTISH LEEDS]

The big surprise of the draw is Arsenal being drawn away. I always thought it was a rule of the competition that they had to be drawn at home.

No pal, it's Man Utd that do! And lo and behold they get a home draw. I have absolutely no doubt they'll be on TV too. I think, if memory serves me correctly, they've been on TV (FA Cup) a number of times consecutively. I know it's a ridiculous number but not sure how many times it is.

Its 58 at the moment and if the Derby game is shown it will be 59.

[woollywhite]

Just a generic web pic, mate - I've got about 10 different Leeds teams in my collection and not one of them has a broken player !

If you played on carpet, it always happened, but once elevated to a board on a table top, the double-legger became much rarer

yeah we had ours pasted to a big piece of chipboard, stood up behind the dining room door always ready.... we were obviously much more careless with dropping... the old "uhu" glue was forever coming out

[Deleted User 728]

Just a generic web pic, mate - I've got about 10 different Leeds teams in my collection and not one of them has a broken player !

If you played on carpet, it always happened, but once elevated to a board on a table top, the double-legger became much rarer

yeah we had ours pasted to a big piece of chipboard, stood up behind the dining room door always ready.... we were obviously much more careless with dropping... the old "uhu" glue was forever coming out

I think the main thing was when I was playing as a lad there were about five or six of us on the street that were involved and we'd usually play in someone's conservatory and because we were effectively a gang of boys, the girls didn't come near us while we were playing.
In my experiences, it's usually a female foot that steps on the players - everyone freezes (even now !!) whenever a player goes flying from the table

[kk white]

Haven't posted in a while, but had to join the Subbuteo talk. Adored it as a kid and bought our original 1982 Club Edition on Ebay again a few years back (even though it had Zico in Brazil strip on the front) - we upgraded in 1987 to the edition with Watford v Villa on the box.
Regarding broken players, we used to melt the legs with a lighter and fix them back to the base.... Players got progressively shorter over the years. They were great for bullet shots though, lower centre of gravity, or so we thought.

[DominanceUK]

The big surprise of the draw is Arsenal being drawn away. I always thought it was a rule of the competition that they had to be drawn at home.

No pal, it's Man Utd that do! And lo and behold they get a home draw. I have absolutely no doubt they'll be on TV too. I think, if memory serves me correctly, they've been on TV (FA Cup) a number of times consecutively. I know it's a ridiculous number but not sure how many times it is.

Its 58 at the moment and if the Derby game is shown it will be 59.

Cheers pal, I knew it was a ridiculous amount.

[kk white]

"A lengthy Manchester United streak will finally come to an end in January - for the first time in 13 years they'll play in an FA Cup game that will not be televised.
United's enormous global appeal makes them box office no matter who they're facing, but - after 58 games on the bounce - they won't be on the box next month" reports the Telegraph.