FA Cup: Honeymoon is over, Mr Sherwood

Tim Sherwood’s honeymoon period has ended so quickly, he barely had time to try out the ensuite jacuzzi. Beaten far more emphatically by Arsenal than the scoreline suggested, he has some serious questions to ask of himself and his players. As manager, he should bear the bulk of the responsibility for tactics that were doomed to failure. Instead, he refused to acknowledge that the result had anything to do with tactics at all.