Bloody hell...summing up a thread on SI's forum:
Idiot OP: Is it just me or do you get drawn against your rivals all the time in early cup rounds?
User 2: Evidence, please? It's probably just your imagination.
User 3: Yes, I play the same local team in different cups in the same season a lot.
User 4: Early rounds of cups are regionalised.
User 3: This has been a bug for years. Do a search.
User 5: [Posts findings with three teams, showing that more than half of the teams he was drawn against in the first three rounds of the FA Cup over five years were 'geographically close', then went on to pose the question as to whether or not it's "realism-damaging or adding more drama"]
User 4: Early rounds of cups are REGIONALISED.
User 6: I'm playing Everton and haven't been drawn against Liverpool etc. at all, but I'm always drawn against Man City at some point.
User 7: I think they're regionalised.
User 4: Am I on everyone's ignore lists? I've said three times now that they're regionalised!
User 2: [Quoting User 4] People don't bother reading posts in threads.
Idiot OP: [Quoting User 3's second post] Yes, that must be it.
Christ...
And the trolls on there are even worse than the persistent cocks we get around here