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FA Cup

British  

noun

  1. an annual knockout competition for a silver trophy, open to all member teams of the Football Association

  2. the trophy itself

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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White's book follows his journey through the 2024-25 FA Cup campaign from the extra-preliminary round to the final at Wembley.

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When I was in the car with him, all these stories came flooding out and it made me think that from a literary perspective, the FA Cup is quite a profound kind of framework.

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Felix on being at Wembley when Palace won last season's FA Cup: I had so many mad journeys and adventures in the book, and it almost became about finding the game that had the story behind it that had nothing to do with football, but was about the people I met or even me personally.

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It captured the very essence of the book because I was looking for the magic of the FA Cup and I found it right there.

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I don't think it will be as rough and tumble as it was when these teams met in the 1970 FA Cup final, but I'm going for the same outcome, which is a Chelsea win.

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