You could just as easily face Manchester United andgo home straight away or take on a succession of amateur or lower-league teams and advance deep into the competition.
Anyone who thinks this was just a minor problem and everything would have been fine if we let everyone go broke is not thinking straightand is indulging in reconstructive thinking after the fact.
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.