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ALL right you Wrexham and Chesterfield fans, I know you're out there.

Now hands up which of you thought you'd be seeing your teams live on Cable this season. In the FA Cup quarter-finals, no less. You fibbers. The same goes for you Pompey-ites. This is the year the FA Cup returned to its true purpose of being a humbling ground for the high and mighty and you've got to love it.

The thought of a last-eight with no cash-cow teams (aka the Big Five) may give palpitations to the FA's bean counters but it's great for true fans.

And this weekend no-one is left out as all four quarter-finals will be shown live on Wharf Cable.

I can't remember this ever happening before but it seems the game's authorities have once again yielded to the might of TV and scheduled all the games so they don't clash.

Tomorrow it's Derby v Middlesbrough. Then on Sunday it's six hours of consecutive football starting with the long shots Chesterfield v Wrexham. That is on at 7.15pm which means kick-off is probably 7.30pm, ie 11.30am in the UK.

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