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Setanta Sports on Freeview has gone up by a pound to £10.99 per month. In the coming season, the channel has 46 Premier League matches, England World Cup Qualifiers and Friendlies, the Community Shield and the FA Cup - more football than they’ve ever had before.
This price rise comes as Ofcom’s new counting method [...]

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At long last, an FA Cup final without one of the top four teams!
So who will win this year’s FA Cup, Cardiff City or Portsmouth?  Neither team have been in an FA Cup final for many years. Cardiff became the only non-English side to lift the trophy in 1927; and the last time Portsmouth won [...]

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Cardiff ended the glorious cup run of Barnsley, to book themselves a place in the FA Cup Final against Portsmouth.
An early goal from Joe Ledley gave Cardiff the lead in another lively, but by no means classic cup game. Barnsley pressurised and enjoyed a lot of possession during the first half of the game, with Cardiff always [...]

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Portsmouth made sure that a team from the premiership will play in the FA Cup final, after winning one nil against West Bromwich Albion at Wembley.
The return trip to Wembley was thanks to a scrappy goal in the second half by Kanu, which pretty well summed up the game. West Brom were the better team [...]

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Giant killers Barnsley and Cardiff will face each other in one of the FA cup semi finals drawn today. Portsmouth face the third Championship team left in the pot, West Bromwich Albion.
Portsmouth are the bookmakers favourites obviously, but after a weekend of quarter final shocks, anything could happen. From not having a chance against United, [...]

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