All football managers want to win but sometimes in recent years it has felt better to lose than to draw.
Not in the moment, no. In the moment a defeat is a defeat and it hurts. But in the FA Cup a draw has traditionally meant a replay and the truth is that for many involved in the cut and thrust of the modern game, replay had become a dirty word.
Welcome to the other side of a debate that continues to swirl around the margins of the English game at this time of year.