FA Cup Draw - 4th Round Draw Sunday!

[NickNack]

FA in don’t give a shit about fans shocker

[AndSeel]

Shambles isn't it. Football in this country is dictated by Greed.

One weekend of all the fans not going to games would stop it but due to petty rivalries it will never happen.

[TheRam]

That’s a disgrace.

[Toddacelli]

Doesn’t matter if they can sell it to Qatar TV

[Gash]

The magic of the cup eh.

Plum draw for a lower league club and they go and do that to them, absolute disgrace.

[Cozzie]

Absolute arseholes.

[The Doc]

Gonna try and get to this and take my lad to his first game.

[MayorFarnham]

FA don't even pretend they care about fans anymore. If they did the semi-finals at Wembley (which no-one likes) would have syopped years ago.

[Dchans]

On the flip side I might be able to go now!

Horrific for Peterborough though. I used to work there and the locals will be gutted about this / it’s a terrible decision and we’d be pissed if it was the other way round for sure

[74Blue]

https://www.theposh.com/news/club-disap ... -round-tie

Following the draw for the Emirates FA Cup Third Round we were delighted to have been handed a trip to Goodison Park to face Premier League side Everton. We saw this as a fantastic opportunity for our wonderful supporters to visit this iconic ground in its final year.

We were very confident of taking a full allocation of tickets for our ever first visit to Goodison Park and what is the final ever third round tie there. On learning that the tie will take place on Thursday 9th January 2025 we are incredibly disappointed that the needs of our supporters have not been taken into consideration in this decision.

Although we have an appreciation that Liverpool and Everton are unable to play on the same day and with Liverpool also drawn at home it was unlikely the game would take place on Saturday, we feel a better solution could have been found to ensure all our supporters who wish to travel to the game would have been able to do so.

Following confirmation from the FA of the decision to play the fixture on the Thursday, we contacted them to ask for the decision to be reversed based on the following criteria:

- There are no viable trains from Liverpool to Peterborough scheduled on the evening of the match meaning supporters must travel by car or coach.
- Supporters will be required to take two days off work to attend this incredibly important fixture and our younger fans will not be able to attend due to school commitments.
- We have never played a competitive game at Goodison Park and interest in the game is very high.
- An expected reduced home attendance would reduce the potential revenue for both Peterborough United and Everton.

Peterborough United Chief Executive Dawn Gore said: “Like our supporters, when the draw was made on Monday night, we were all very excited about travelling to Goodison Park. We were inundated with supporters requesting details for ticketing within hours of the draw being concluded.

“To learn that the game has been arranged for a Thursday night is bitterly disappointing. Whilst we understand there are logistical challenges, we do not feel the supporters have been considered in this approach.

“We have made our feelings very clear to the decision-makers at the top of the game and want to assure our supporters that we are just as disappointed as they are about when this game will take place and from a financial standpoint, the Club are set to lose out on revenue that would have been greatly appreciated as a club in Sky Bet League One.”

Really cannot fathom why this game could not have been played on the Sunday. It's happened plenty of times before when both Everton and Liverpool have both had home draws in the cup, one plays Saturday, the other one Sunday.

It's just the usual "Not the Sky six, so you don't fucking matter! Fuck the fans, they're just an inconvenience."

[Evertonfc15]

this game was made for a sunday or saturday - not a thursday ffs
full sympathy for the posh fans
JUST SIMPLY SWITCH IT TO SUNDAY - a full clear day for the police to manage etc
profit greed wins again

[Gary1878]

The BBC showing this on iPlayer means that it can be shown at any time they choose.

Why on earth would they choose to fuck over the Peterborough fans by showing it on a Thursday evening.

It's an utter disgrace, and not only devalues the fixture, but the FA Cup and football in general.

The match should be one that has all the elements of a bit of football romance, with Goodison hosting one of it's last FA cup matches, and Peterborough having never played there. Instead, they have made their fans struggle, and it will cost them far far more in time and money that it otherwise should do.

It epitomises everything that is wrong with football and everything that the fans despise.

[Gash]

Yeah, I'm not really into the "everyone hates us" attitude that some fans have but you do wonder if it was potentially the last ever FA Cup match at the likes of Anfield or Old Trafford or even Villa Park whether they'd have done this? One of the oldest historic grounds in football, hosted a World Cup Semi Final and even an early FA Cup final back in the late 1800's, a club steeped in FA Cup history and even if we go through we might not have a home draw again yet they shove it on a Thursday night. It's shite for everyone, especially the Peterborough fans but I think it's also very disrespectful to Everton and Goodison Park.

[Dchans]

When do tickets go on sale for this one??

[Shropshire Blue]

Right down into non league TV money has made football the thing it is today - good and bad. We all drool over the prospect of vast wealth buying us success (remember the arrival of Moshiri and Usmanov?), look at the arrival of the Friedkin group now. What attracts them? Money. This is replicated throughout football. We see some of the worlds greatest players week in week out, magnificent new stadiums, we pay a lot to the broadcasters to have wall to wall tv in our own homes. We pack pubs to see it on big screens. We fuel the demand - the broadcasters merely strive to meet it. We've seen fans put to enormous cost and inconvenience because ko times are now geared to tv. In some areas, with high ticket prices, the game is moving remorselessly away from its working class local roots to a middle class entertainment. I could go on with examples good and bad but the reality is tv owns and feeds football and we clamour for what it gives us and do nothing to change it.
Remember that old saying - don't bite the hand that feeds you?