English managers on the marginsHill is one of only two English managers still standing in this year’s FA Cup Getty ImagesThe FA Cup quarter-finals will be without an English manager for the first time unless Keith Hill guides Rochdale to a replay victory away to Tottenham Hotspur or Paul Cook’s Wigan Athletic bridge a two-division gap to beat Manchester City (Brighton & Hove Albion’s Chris Hughton was born in London but played for Ireland). The FA Cup quarter-final draw leaves open the possibility that the four semi-finalists will be among the top five placed league clubs at the time those games are played — for the first time since it happened in 1888-89, the league’s inaugural season. Manchester City (top), Manchester United (second), Chelsea (fourth) and Tottenham (fifth) cannot meet in the cup before the semi-finals. All seven fifth-round ties played…

Source: The Times February 19, 2018 00:45 UTC