LONDON -- While the English Football Association would never utter a public word on such a matter, the power brokers at Soho Square are praying that the climax to the domestic season is not an F.A. Cup final between Burnley and Sheffield United.
It would be a lively build-up between managers Stan Ternent and Neil Earnock, as will be explained later, but an all-First Division clash of northern clubs at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on May 17 is not what the F.A. Cup final is all about, wherever it is played.