FA Cup replays, sometimes running for 4 or 5 games.
Also FA Cup semi final replays no longer exist. That famous Ryan Giggs goal against Arsenal was in a FA Cup semi final replay.
The Bayern Munich against Athletico Madrid European Cup final in the 1970s went to a replay.
2 leg UEFA Cup finals are no more.
The Cup Winners Cup is gone.
I'm going to start crying in a minute. What have they done to our game?
Very much agree with FA Cup replays. I can remember the very game that piqued my interest in footy. In 1979 Sheff Weds were a lower league club and had drawn Arsenal in the cup, it took 5 matches including a replay on a neutral ground. Can still remember listening to the first replay on a tiny old radio with dad and uncles in our front room and can see clear as day the sheer joy on all their faces when Weds scored and we got to do that 3 more times too, loved every minute of it. Probably my first ever experience of male bonding. Nicking slurps of beer when the adults were pretending not to look and dad telling me that I might hear some words that only adults are allowed to say and under no circumstances could I use them.
''''Sheffield Wednesday v Arsenal (1979)
Now if we’re talking FA Cup replays, this is the daddy of all ties. Arsenal may have won the FA Cup in 1979, beating Manchester United 3-2 in the final, but they took their time getting there, needing no less than FOUR replays to get passed Third Division Sheffield Wednesday in the third round.
The first match, on January 6th, saw the sides draw 1-1 at Hillsborough, a scoreline that was repeated at Highbury three days later. The tie then moved to Leicester’s Filbert Street and ended up 2-2, and then 3-3 before Arsenal final got past the Owls 2-0 on January 22nd.''''
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