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The Football Association Challenge Cup, or the FA Cup, is an annual competition of football (soccer) clubs in the UK. It is open to all clubs, including those not in the English Football League.
The Football Association Cup Quotes in Fever Pitch
The Fever Pitch quotes below are all either spoken by The Football Association Cup or refer to The Football Association Cup. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 17
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Unless I had suffered and shivered, wept into my scarf and paid through the nose, it was simply not possible to take pleasure in or credit for the good times.
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Chapter 67
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Over the years we have come to confuse football with something else, something more necessary, which is why these cries of outrage are so heartfelt and so indignant.
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The Football Association Cup Term Timeline in Fever Pitch
The timeline below shows where the term The Football Association Cup appears in Fever Pitch. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3: Don Rogers (Swindon Town v Arsenal at Wembley, 15.3.69)
...they won’t make it to the championship, but Nick doesn’t care. Arsenal plays in the FA cup on a school night, and Nick has to go to bed early. In the morning,...
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Chapter 10: How I Won the Double (Arsenal v Newcastle 17.4.71)
Throughout 1971, Arsenal becomes a better team. They win the League Championship and the FA Cup . Though Nick is happy in a way, he feels unentitled to revel in pride...
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Chapter 14: My Mum and Charlie George (Derby County v Arsenal, 26.2.72)
...other Arsenal fans all the way back to the train station, throwing bottles at them. The FA sues George for the gesture.
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Chapter 17: Wembley II—The Nightmare Continues (Leeds vs Arsenal, 5.5.72)
The football club gives out tickets to the FA Cup Final based on loyalty to its games that season, and Nick is proud to earn...
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Chapter 29: Wembley II—the Horror Returns (Arsenal v Ipswich, at Wembley, 6.5.78)
Nick is annoyed that the Football Association allots many FA Cup Final tickets to people who are not loyal football fans. Nick gets a ticket and...
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Chapter 31: Wembley IV—The Catharsis (Arsenal v Manchester United, at Wembley, 12.5.79)
...career ambitions at all. The only thing he wants is for Arsenal to win a Cup Final , which seems to him like a personal goal. A few days before the 1979...
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The Cup Final between Arsenal and Manchester United is a close game, and near the end it looks...
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Chapter 32: Filling a Hole (Arsenal v Liverpool, 1.5.80)
...of years in terms of football seasons rather than calendar years. The day before the Cup Final should be a nationally recognized day off work. He thinks of the football season of...
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Chapter 34: Arsenalesque (West Ham v Arsenal, 10.5.80)
...play strategically. West Ham has the opposite reputation—they are stylish and progressive. Arsenal loses the Cup Final to West Ham. At one point in the game, Arsenal player Willie Young makes a...
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