Everyone's talking about 'banana skins' and 'decent championship sides' - it just sounds like pre-prepared excuses. How can we be expected to qualify for europes top competition if we're worried about brighton? If we can't be confident of beating teams in the division below then we shouldn't even turn up. Embarassing.
you need to look back over the history of the fa cup and what it is renound for.
It's not 'reknowned' for small teams knocking out big teams. Granted it sometimes happens but the best team usually wins. Just because ocassionally a big team gets unprofessional when playing smaller teams, that's no reason to be wary or try to justify it when it happens.
