Any other season, the comedy stereotype would apply.
Fans in Sutton would have gathered around the telly Sunday tea time in excited expectation, waiting to see who their team would be meeting in the quarter-finals? And discovering that they were away at Chelsea.
Well, come Monday night, the Surrey stockbroker belt didn’t seem to consist totally of Manchester United supporters. Because this wasn’t any other season.
Just as Arsenal’s trip to Sutton United in the FA Cup wasn’t just any other game of football.