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FA deserve credit for Cup cash increase

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
8 July 2018

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NLP says…
A couple of years ago, our esteemed columnist Ian Ridley penned a superb column in this paper about the need to address the payment structure in the FA Cup. Ian’s plea was simple: there was simply not enough cash being poured into those clubs more deserving of it in the preliminary rounds while the prize for the winners (£1.8 million) was of little significance to a club that had already swept up thousands in TV revenue and who more than likely had seen their run to the final as something of a burden with season aspirations elsewhere.
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