Crazy to rest so many players in FA Cup says Shearer

By Steve Tongue LONDON (Reuters) - As the number of Premier League clubs knocked out of this season's FA Cup by lower division opponents reached six on Sunday, debate intensified over whether the competition was being devalued by leading teams resting so many players. Hull City and Watford joined Bournemouth, Liverpool, Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion in losing to sides from the second or third tier in this year's competition, most of them making several changes to their strongest lineups. Promotion-chasing Championship (second-tier) sides like Newcastle United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Leeds United followed suit against supposedly inferior opposition by suffering embarrassing defeats, the latter pair going out to non-League (fifth-tier) Lincoln City and Sutton United.
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