The romantics amongst you hoping to see an FA Cup fairytale unfold this season might be looking at Crawley Town's tie with Torquay United this weekend and licking your lips at the prospect of a non-league side making the fifth round. After all, only five teams from outside the Football League have reached that stage since the end of World War II - and none of them got any further.
Any purists, however, should probably be aware of the huge amount of money the big-spending Blue Square Premier leaders have spent on their squad in the last few months as part of what they term 'Project Promotion'. Crawley are minnows in the loosest sense of the word.
But luckily you don't even have to leave Plainmoor to find a true tale of an attempt to triumph against the odds in round four. The key to the Gulls' hopes of reaching the last 16 for the first time in their 111-year history lies with inspirational goalkeeper Scott Bevan, a man who has come within a couple of kicks of entering Cup folklore before now and also had a brush with death along the way. Now that's what I call a fairytale in the making.
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