This weekend saw the fourth round of the FA Cup and
for now the magic of it is back, in the last 48hrs there have been shocks and
upsets here there and everywhere.
Luton’s 1-0 win over Norwich meant they became the
first non-league side to beat a top flight team since 1989, Millwall heaped
more misery on Aston Villa, Leeds beat Spurs, the MK Dons embarrassed QPR and
to round of the weekend Oldham beat Liverpool.
Assuming Chelsea beat Brentford at home, which you’d
expect them to do, nine of the 16 teams left in the draw will be from outside
the top flight which is the most for quite a while.
But I’ll say it again enjoy it while it lasts, because
the nearer you get to the final the magic and the opportunities for it tend to
drain away.
For no good reason the semi-finals are both at
Wembley and for the final both teams are given about 25,000 tickets each,
despite the fact that Wembley holds 90,000, with the other 40,000 going to people
who aren’t interested in the game whatsoever and spend the whole 90 minutes nowhere
near their seat.
So while it certainly has been one of the great
weekends of cup action enjoy it now before it gets to the part where you think
to yourself oh yeah it’s been reduced to a shadow of its former self by corporate
greed.
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