The Fiver | Wigan 8-0 Hull: some memorable jaw-dropping entertainment at last

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The Fiver is not 100% convinced that the scramble for a spot in next year’s Big Cup is fully delivering on its much-trumpeted promise of thrills, spills and heart-racing excitement. Liverpool qualified for it back in November, pretty much. Manchester City have long since made it too, partly on account of their admirable prudence in the sepia-toned time-barred past. Chelsea are in the process of stumbling over the line, despite showing worrying signs during the past couple of matches of touching their tasteful new disrupted-herringbone-patterned cloth, while Manchester United will probably make it almost by default as well, on account of those horrific trippy flashbacks of 2014 that poor Brendan keeps having.

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