The early round of the FA Cup are going to be hard sell is this is anything to go by. Watching the reserves in an empty stadium with the eerie echo of swearing and shouting of players, is, well, very much like watching a reserve game. Stripped of the fans and the best players, you wondered what the BBC prime time audience had done to deserve two hours of this. Strictly Come Dancing it wasn’t.
Still, we got there in the end. One hour and forty eight minutes in we had the goal that decided it for the FA Cup holders.