The FA cup is magical, it captivates everything about English football, the passion, the joy and the sheer excitement of playing in the competition. Its probably the best competition in the world, but it has one flaw, the qualifying system.
As a local team follower in my early days i was lucky to see my local team Slough Town, play in the 1st round on a few occasions, probably the best was when they beat Paul Merson's Walsall 2-1.
Then i didn't know just how long it takes to qualify properly for this cup, now i do.
I now follow Burnham FC and a few years ago the club embarked on a historic FA Cup run, they started off in the preliminary round of qualifying and played an incredible 7 games to get through to the 1st round proper and this is the problem. Should teams have to get through 5 rounds of arduous matches to reach the 1st round? And when a team gets to the 4th qualifying round, the conference teams get added who often knock out the smaller non league teams.
I think the conference teams should be in the 1st round proper automatically, and that there should be just 3 qualifying rounds, this way you would get more fairytale stories and get more people into local football. Perfect.
Any opinions? Let me know
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