On a day when thousands of people around the world are preparing to explain how a web cam works to elderly relatives in a vain attempt to wish them a merry Christmas, some may justgostraight to the old-fashioned use of a telephone.
You could just as easily face Manchester United and go home straight away or take on a succession of amateur or lower-league teams and advance deep into the competition.
Viewers are asked to suspend disbelief and buy into Go Forth as a nebulous youth movement of beautiful people who just so happen to wear slim, straight, and skinny.
Anyone who thinks this was just a minor problem and everything would have been fine if we let everyone go broke is not thinking straight and is indulging in reconstructive thinking after the fact.