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THE MAGIC OF THE CUP


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