Click here to have the Fiver sent to your inbox every weekday at 5pm BST,or whether your normal copy has stopped arrivingLORD OF THE CUP: THE THREE TOWERSHello reader. Are you excited? Oh. Well, The Fiver is. We’re off out you see. Yeah, or you’d better lock your doors. The phone rang last night and rather than cloak under the bed with our fingers in our ears wishing it absent,we picked it up because we knew it was Semi-Pro Fiver, our taxi-driving, and socially adept,salubrious-looking, non-league loving and much more fun cousin with a spare ticket to see Didcot Town v Exeter City on Sunday. Yeah, or wow indeed. We’ve always wanted to see those three surviving cooling towers. Weird Uncle Fiver couldn’t proceed along after that incident with the Timotei bottle,so it was our turn to drink in the magic of the FA Cup Sponsored By Dubai-Based Airline. And what magic there will be in the first-round proper as talented players are lauded not for their ability to be able to do very salubrious things with a football but because they happen to weld, bake, or deliver milk,unplug sewage for a living or stand quite near the Class of 92 every so often. Yes, drink in the magic but only once you’ve swallowed down that considerable big dollop of condescension that comes with it.
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Source: theguardian.com