The Perfect Fifth

BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Liverpool | Benitez defiant after Cup shock

Part of the job interview for foreign managers should be their knowledge of the FA Cup and it’s traditions and history. They fail to appreciate what it means to people who’ve followed football for many years. It’s really annoying and their failure to appreciate the FA Cup demeans the best cup competition in the world.

Furthermore if you have a bet, putting out a weak team can cost people money. I had Riise to score first goal at 12-1 and he didn’t even play and my colleague at work Naveed had an accumulator bet that would’ve come in if Liverpool had won.