English Premier League

By winning the Champions League on Wednesday evening Pep Guardiola could stand be chucked in the air safe in the knowledge that he had become the first manager in Spain to…

However in the build up to the final the question that lingers across the country from Stamford Bridge corridors and internet message boards remains:

‘How important is it for Chelsea to win the FA Cup and do we really care?’

This question reflects issues both inside the club and the general decline of the competition in the last ten years the competition has lost a lot of its prestige and in today’s global game it no longer seems to generate the interest and hype that it once did.

This decline can be attributed to a number of interlinked factors revolving around the themes of Money, Globalisation or both a few of which I have explored in this article.