Phenomenal FA Cup

Football can be foul - especially when your team keeps on losing! But in the phenomenal F.A. Cup, even the worst teams have a chance of glory ...

The F.A. Cup (or the F.A. Challenge Cup Trophy to give it its full name) has grown phenomenally. Starting with just 15 teams, the competition is now entered by well over 600. Some of the teams are fantastic - but plenty are pretty feeble. That's what has made the F.A. Cup so phenomenally successful. In what other competition but the F.A. Cup could miniscule Mangotsfield United be just one place behind mighty Manchester United and awful Argonauts FC a long way ahead of awesome Arsenal? (You want to know how? Easy - alphabetically, Mangotsfield were immediately behind Manchester United in the list of entries for the 1998-99 F.A. Cup and Argonauts FC entered the F.A. Cup for the one and only time in 1879, ten years before Arsenal had even played a match). The competition has produced a whole host of phenomenal matches between phenomenal teams of phenomenal players - and you'll be reading about plenty of them in this book. Like ... * the phenomenal match which lasted for 11 hours! * the phenomenal team who couldn't afford their train fares * the phenomenal player who nearly lost his head Most of all, though, the phenomenal F.A. Cup is famous for the way it gives little teams the chance to pit themselves against the giants of the game. When that happens, the big teams go frantic with worry - and in this book youll find out why! Youll read some frantic facts that the top teams of today would prefer not to remember. Like the times when ... * a frantic Arsenal were beaten by a team which cost less than their own players boots * a frantic Manchester United came up against a joke team and found it wasnt at all funny * a frantic Aston Villa lost their hold on the F.A. Cup without even getting changed And, as always, well confer our very own phenomenal Foul Football awards on the powerful personalities who have played their part in making the F.A. Cup the world-famous competition it is today. Awards like ...

 

So don't just sit there, read on. FA Cup football is phenomenal!