Sheffield United’s season has been so unremittingly bleak that the FA Cup has actually seemed welcome. ’Something to break up the week,’ as veteran forward Chris Basham put it in the match programme. Don’t bet against them doing a Wigan Athletic and actually lifting the thing whilst in the process of being relegated.
The task against Plymouth would have been considerable harder had the League One side been able to bring their legendary Green Army with them. They’re one of those sides of geographical extremity who take pride in the thousands who journey the length of the country to follow them.