a mighty cliche falls

5Live's footie commentary tonight was former Division One Champions and European Cup winners Nottingham Forest playing Weymouth of the Conference South in the first round of the FA Cup. First Round.

That's gotta be humiliating. What with the comedy annual renaming of the various leagues, it's easy to forget how far they've fallen. But when was the last time a European Cup winning side had to play in the first round of the FA cup?

There were some precious Partridgesque moments in the commentary, too. Someone had clearly been feeding the 5Live team some howlers, which were then relayed on air, in that this-is-incredibly-dull-but-you-may-find-it-interesting way that Partridge had. Weymouth, we're told, "Are known as the Terras - Terras ending A S - because they used to play in terracotta... they now play in claret and blue."

And: "The stand opposite is known as the Barbara Windsor stand, because that's where the biggest... moaners... are..."

Hilarious. And Humiliating for the Forest fans, of course. A good night for football.