The FA Cup semi-finals are staged at Wembley for one reason and one reason only.
The Football Association needs the dough. And when 81,445 souls are prepared to stump up serious cash to watch this sort of mediocrity, they are not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
But this was an FA Cup semi-final weekend which was - bar the penalty shootout that saw Manchester United through - stripped of any thrill, notable only for its inconvenience for so many.