NICK CAIN
READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK

ENGLISH football has the FA Cup, a gem of a tournament that connects the various levels of the round ball club game, while English Rugby Union is in a Cup wasteland.
This season the FA Cup is celebrating its 150th year and is a field of dreams that allows 700 clubs from the minnows to the small, to the medium sized, to pit themselves against the biggest and best, including the Premier League’s super clubs.
English Rugby Union has nothing remotely like it. The English Cup had a brief heyday in the amateur era, when it was sponsored by John ...