I’ve really enjoyed the FA Cup this year. Town have been decent and all of a sudden with Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool all out of the competition, I’m perhaps rather foolishly thinking, hang on – we could have a decent run here.

I saw a question on social media which asked fans if they’d rather stay up or win the FA Cup?

For me, there is only one answer there and it’s the latter.

Football is so commercialised these days and sometimes I think we forget as fans exactly why we fell in love with our club in the first place.

Can you imagine seeing Town lift a major trophy? I know fans of a certain age before us have done it.

They probably got used to it during the glory years of Ramsey and Robson, but to see the Tractor Boys win something major in my lifetime would be an absolute dream.

Back to league action now though and a trip to Villa Park. This will be tough, they all are.

I am worried about the resurgent Aston Villa off the back of a very decent transfer window. We’ll do well to get a point there but if we play anything like we did in the reverse fixture, we’ll certainly have a chance.

After that it’s Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United. Two games before the season, you may have winced at back-to-back, but now it’s two fixtures I’m looking at as a huge chance for us to get points in.

Who knows what’s going on with Tottenham? I’m not sure Ange himself does.

In their current state, we have to be seeing that as a game at Portman Road we’ve got to go and win.

It’s a similar story for Manchester United who still look all over the place. There’s another chance there.

I said after Southampton, if Town are to stay up then we have to start winning the games against those around us and begin to pick up a few shock results along the way.