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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽ FA Cup, Jan 4-7

The FA Cup is the pure knockout tournament for English football clubs of all tiers. There are 64 teams left in it, so 32 matches those days. Arsenal-Liverpool on Jan 7 at 4:30pm local time is notable.

Games listed on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324_FA_Cup#Third_round_proper

Spoiler-free Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2023%E2%80%9324_FA_Cup&direction=prev&oldid=1192139800

🇪🇸⚽ La Liga

  • Jan 3, Girona vs Atlético Madrid

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽ Premier League

Fixtures are thin because of the FA Cup. In fact there's just two, but they're both juicy:

  • Monday 1st January, Liverpool-Newcastle United, 20:00 local time

  • Tuesday 2nd January West Ham United-Brighton & Hove Albion, 19:30 local time

West Ham just beat Arsenal 2-0, are having a great season. Brighton are having a great few decades, were in the 4th tier in the year 2000, now 8th in the top tier. Liverpool are title contenders (it's one of the most competitive title races in this millennium). Newcastle have 1 win 4 losses in their past 5 league games, but are a strong team basically.

🥊 Vergil Ortiz Jr vs Fredrick Lawson, Jan 6

Should be easy for Ortiz, who has 19 fights and 19 knockout victories.

Card and other stats here: https://box.live/fights/ortiz-jr-vs-lawson/

  • 187_Invitation [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    No I appreciate the length. This helps make sense of it and I'll go back and reference it when I figure out when I go. Still confusing but I like how different it is from other sports leagues. The billions that go into US sports can really take the fun out of it.

    Now I need to find which clubs to support (not Mayo apparently). Exciting!

    Also what does the luckiest teams mean?

    • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      I mean it's a random draw.

      Say you have seven teams: A,B,C,D,E,F,G

      The next round requires whittling that down from 7 to 4.

      Six get assigned to playoffs by a random draw, maybe it's

       G versus D
 A versus E
 C versus F

      The 3 winners of those go through. But also team B goes thru, just from the random draw.

      • 187_Invitation [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Ah okay that makes sense :)

        My dad says he really liked Cork when he went so I will support Cork. Not the most creative choice but I'm lazy.

          • 187_Invitation [he/him]
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            8 months ago

            I'll have to talk to my family next time I see them. My grandparent was adopted before coming to the US so I'm not sure if the last name changed or not. But since my dad liked Cork so much I'm going to assume they were from there :)

            • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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              8 months ago

              👍

              one thing about Cork is they're a good dual county, good at both sports; most counties specialise like Dublin are great at football but bad at hurling and Kilkenny are great at hurling but bad at football

              their colours are red and white and their nickname is the Rebels

              • 187_Invitation [he/him]
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                8 months ago

                Awesome. I like how they got the name. It feels good to support them for having it for a cool reason :)

                Thanks for answering all the questions!