JOHN LYONS says Wigan and Rochdale’s FA Cup heroics show there is still life in the famous old competition

JOHN LYONS
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THERE have been times in the last 20 years when the FA Cup has been on thinner ice than Elise Christie on a good day.
But just as the Scottish short track speed skater kept getting back up to give it another go after a painful fall, so the oldest domestic cup competition in world football manages to get back to its knees and stagger forward.
We feared ‘the magic’ might have gone as this season’s fifth round got underway in...