The Spectator, January 8th, 2005
There is a calming domestic languor about new year sport. Pleasant. Like things used t'be. Olde tyme talk is of minnows and giant-slayers and the 'magic' of the Cup, and this weekend's FA Cup third-round matches are bound to provide - as they have been doing for a century and beyond - a few memorable little asterisks on provincial calendars. Like it or lump it, the big-time Premiership dandies have to revert to their muddy roots. The European swanks of Italy and Spain have shut up shop for the January snows, but their handful of strutting English counterparts have to knuckle down, get their kn...
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