We all love the FA Cup, don’t we? It brings tears of joy and sadness in equal measures because you cannot predict what is going to happen. I mean you can go into a FA Cup tie as red-hot favourites to win against a lower ranked opponent and then perform so abysmally that you get defeated, sometimes on your patch.
Being a Championship side, you start your FA Cup journey in the Third Round like the Premier League guys, a far cry from the days recently when we had to start in the First-Round proper as a League One side. Being a Cup competition, you cannot expect who to get as Premier League sides can face each other as often as playing someone non-league.
Today (Sunday), we saw our Third-Round opponent, and what a draw…
For those who were out for the day and weren’t tuning in, we got a home draw which is good. The interesting part came in the shape of the opponent, we got a Premier League side. However, not just any old Premier League side bu