Echo Yeah, I’m actually quite against the American idea of seeding teams in a knockout competition. I understand why they do it - there’s an argument that says people want to see the 1 and 2 team meet up in the final. But there has always been a glorious randomness to the FA Cup, and FIFA World Cups before they took seeding seriously, such that you got Argentina, Brazil and Italy in a group together in a bizarre second stage group at the 1982 World Cup (meanwhile France, Austria and Northern Ireland were in another), which could never be allowed to happen now.
