Like nearly every one else on this site, for as long as I've followed the Villa, each season I've had to suffer the FA Cup defeat.
These defeats have come in many forms: the unlucky, the unexpected, the dismal, the third-round (can't actually remember the first round exits of 1970 and 71), the final, etc.
The one thing, though, I have managed to avoid is an FA Cup defeat to our nearest and dearest. I don't particularly want to start now - and the best way to make sure that it doesn't happen, is not to draw them in the first place.
