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IAN LADYMAN: Chris Wilder is right, all clubs should get up for the FA Cup... but the attitude of many whose job it is to try and win it remains an obstacle

The FA Cup final should have taken place on Saturday. With any luck, most of the supporters would have made it back by now after a 5.30pm kick-off.

It won’t be long before the final becomes an evening game officially. Just you watch. But that’s another conversation.

What is heartening today is that the eight teams left in this year’s competition remain determined it should not be excluded from Project Restart’s plan to finish the domestic season.

The FA Cup final had been due to take place on Saturday before the coronavirus crisis struck

Managers including Sheffield United’s Chris Wilder do not want progress to the quarter-finals to be unrewarded.