In my world you can never have enough football!

Three or four games to watch on TV every day is a new experience for most people during the group stages of the World Cup but there are people who watch football all day long for a living within our club!

I think there is a misconception that managers are out every night watching football in person these days.

It definitely used to happen and I remember coming to watch Oxford games and having a chat with loads of other managers in the press room at the top of the South Stand.

You build connections that way and I still try to get to matches when I can, but technology allows us to see the full 90 minutes of just about any game in the world and to focus on individual players if we so desire.

We have a team of analysts ready to watch that footage, whether it be for recruitment purposes or to allow us to see how teams we are about to play set up.

The level of detail is amazing and ‘doing your homework on the opposition’ is at a completely different level these days.

We have the advantage as we take on Exeter City at the Kassam Stadium today of having played them just a few weeks ago.

We played really well in that game and deserved the win.

It was at the start of a decent run of results for us, seven games unbeaten now, but we have to see today’s game entirely different to that league meeting.

There will be a healthy respect between the teams but it’s the FA Cup and that’s a completely different kind of beast.

I love the competition, always have done, and we will field a strong side as we always do in the competition.

I’d love to have the luxury of a massive squad where I could dream about squad rotation!

That doesn’t happen at our level plus we desperately want to get through.

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I have been fortunate enough to be involved in some great cup runs over the years and I have seen first hand the effect it can have on your season.

It’s not just the money side of things, handy as that always is.

It’s more about the excitement among the players, staff and especially the fans.

People still remember the game we had at Newcastle a few years ago, older fans still talk about the club reaching the quarter-finals in 1964.

That’s what makes the competition magic and why we will be doing all we can today to create a few new memories.

One thing everyone is talking about at the World Cup is the amount of added time we are seeing.

England played a one-hour half the other day and it’s now become the norm to shout ‘only four minutes’ when the board goes up!

I understand why it is being done. Time-wasting tactics have been refined and you want the public to get their money’s worth.

Adding the time on is technically correct but it means players are going to be fatigued, and logically if you extend matches by 10 per cent, then you are likely to get 10 per cent more yellow cards, especially when players get tired late on.

It will be fascinating to see whether, by trying to stamp out one problem, they create another with players totting up cards and being unavailable for the big matches that are coming up.