Poncing off to Barnsley

The city of Liverpool is famous for two things: The Fab Four and Liverpool FC.

One of those two things was eliminated from the FA Cup today after losing to lowly Barnsley in what they're calling one of the greatest cup upsets ever (whoever "they" are).

Liverpool is one of the top clubs in the world and Barnsley is in the bottom half of the Championship, or what used to be called "the second division". Barnsley is mostly famous for being mentioned in a Monty Python sketch ("Working Class Playwright").

Luckily the FA Cup is the great equalizer. It's a huge season-long knockout tournament between all the teams in the Football Association, with matchups drawn completely at random. It's completely independent from all the leagues, so lower division teams quite often end up playing against top teams, and sometimes even end up beating them. It's like an NCAA basketball tournament with twice as many teams and many more upsets!

Also, thanks to spending my early years as a Monty Python fan, I know by heart who won the 1949 FA Cup.  It was Wolverhampton Wanderers who beat Liecester 3-1.