Football Daily | ‘It’s a pain in the bum’: Port Vale and the magic of the FA Cup

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Sunderland fans have suffered enough to know that no matter how well things might appear to be going, calamity is never too far away. Take, for example, a thirtysomething mackem of Football Daily’s acquaintance who travelled to see Régis Le Bris’s side get dumped out of the FA Cup by Port Vale. Having watched his side lose 1-0 to the worst team in League One – and the one we are still following through the tournament – he cheerfully noted that