The FA Cup's fun.

Lots of great players. Both sides.

Normally, that is.

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The first part of the inspiration for this post, which sprung forth with a haiku, can be found, abstractly, in an article about the 2018-2019 season's FA Cup between Manchester City and Watford, posted at:

https://www.footballticketnet.com/blog/manchester-city-vs-watford-for-the-fa-cup

on the Football Ticket Net blog.

For those lucky enough to go see it live at Wembley, it's sure to be a great memory.

Good luck to both sides! May the best team win! 

The second part of this post, was inspired by the "knowledge bomb" that soon, there will be tickets to football matches, sold on the blockchain.

Indeed, there are companies already making moves to put tickets for sale, with identifiers on the blockchain, in order to be able to keep an accurate record of the chain of command and history of ownership and transfer of ownership.

This is where the sports and ticket events industries are moving towards, because it will greatly improve the customer's experience, as lost tickets and stolen tickets will be easily replacable, and fake tickets will be easy to identify and stop at the gate, if not sooner. 

This will of course improve the experience of customers who buy the tickets from the primary ticket agents and markets. It will also help improve the experience of the secondary market ticket marketplaces, because they will be able to verify tickets on sale even better.

Of course, the best ones already do verify and offer 100% Guarantees on sales of tickets. However, adding blockchain will add a much better technology and that should make things better for everyone, except maybe the bad guys, whose bad tickets we should want to stop anyway.