Good morning. Hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend. Catching up …
***Arsenal is fourth in the top-flight Premier League. Sutton United is 17th in the fifth-tier National League. In the English pyramid, that’s a gap of 105 places. The FA Cup round of 16 brought them together Monday at 7,000-seat Gander Green Lane, 16 miles south of the Gunners’ massive Emirates Stadium.
Arsenal won, 2-0, setting up a March 11 quarterfinal against another fifth-level side, league-leading Lincoln City.
Sutton’s reserve goalkeeper, 46-year-old Wayne Shaw, was in the pub at halftime and, later, ate a pie — or was it a pasty?