Quote: TOMCAT "Surely the Magic of any knock out competition is the fact that teams that aren't expected to do well, can surprise us and make it all the way to the final?
The BBC Breakfast team on Saturday Morning were creaming it over the romance of the underdogs maybe beating the favourites. What keeps that romance alive is that it does occasionally happen, I hesitate to mention 1998 but it is the proof of the pudding'"
I suspect both the Beeb and the RFL would happily dispense with 'the romance of the Cup' for a full stadium and a very close, very exciting game.
1998, for all that it was a great result for the neutrals, was played out in front of an embarrassing 60,000 people.