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Football Daily | You want proper football? Here are the FA Cup first-round ties to look out for

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Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! For the FA Cup, the early rounds are the juice. The first round proper to be played out over the long weekend is looking, well, proper. And on Saturday at 3pm GMT, a proper time, 31 ties will kick off. No VAR, either. At the stage when the bottom two Football League divisions join the competition, focus remains on those non-league clubs fighting for the honour of the pyramid … John Aloisi winning or choking​ the Chinese Super League , a league so ‘super’ that nine of all 16 clubs in it started the season on negative points due to…

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