Money has ruined football without a doubt.
and Murdoch's filthy TV lucre has made the oldests cup competition in the (football) world an insignificance for ALL of those with their collective snouts gobbling up the obscenely ridiculous money circulating around Premiershit money grabbers ( little if any of which filters down to lower league clubs!).... even with the
DOUBLING of prize money for this seasons FA Cup competition, plus a few extra tweaks at the preliminary stages, what the FA Cup Winner and beaten finalists 'win' is chicken feed in comparison to what Prem clubs get given by TV companys!
below a cut n paste breakdown of the prize money for the winners of each round, prom prelimanary stages to finalists 2018/19 seasons (Emirates) FA Cup competition
The Football Association announced in January 2018 that it was doubling the prize money in this seasons Emirates FA Cup from the £13 million available last season.
As a result of that, the winners of the Extra Preliminary Round will receive £750 more than in last season’s
FA Cup while the losing sides in the EPR and Preliminary Rounds will now be awarded a windfall where previous seasons they were not.
- Extra Preliminary £2,250 (Winning side); £750 (Losing side)
- Preliminary £2,890 (Winning side); £960 (Losing side)
- First Round Qual £6,000
- Second Round Qual £9,000
- Third Round Qual £15,000
- Fourth Round Qual £25,000
- First Round Proper £36,000
- Second Round Proper £54,000
- Third Round Proper £135,000
- Fourth Round Proper £180,000
- Fifth Round Proper £360,000
- Quarter Final £720,000
- Semi Final (Winner) £1,800,000
- Semi Final (Loser) £900,000
- Final (Runners-Up) £1,800,000
- Final (Winner) £3,600,000
..... winning finalists pick up what is chicken feed in comparison to parachute payments to relegated from Premershit clubs