Chowtime Congestion Pile Up

Football - Arsenal boss Angry Weiner has urged the FA to break with tradition and scrap cup replays so that he and his fellow top-flight managers can go out for lunch and dinner more often. Arsenal face a fixture pile-up following Saturday's FA Cup fifth-round draw against Blackburn. This will severely curtail Weiner's culinary ambitions throughout February unless the FA see sense and capitulate.

The sides replay next Wednesday. But before then, the Gunners travel to PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League tomorrow, before facing Chelsea in Sunday's Carling Cup final.

Weiner said: "There is a lot that could be done about the fixture list but nobody manages to do it. I mean, what do the FA do all day? F*** all, that's what. It's all lunch with this bloke and dinner over there with that bloke and they completely forget to remember that we've got three points to play for. But when have they ever taken me out to dinner? Naff all, that's when." "Ask anyone - Allardyce, Curbs, Fergie, I reckon we've had the equivalent of shit all between us on the free-dinner front. They say there is no magical solution. They say, 'If you want to cut the fixtures down then you can't come for dinner with us.' Where's the logic in that?"

"And when you point out that they still manage to take each other out for lunch, they say that not taking each other out for lunch would mean sacrificing something that is part of the tradition of the English game. So, as managers, we have to adapt. Well, that's fine but if the foot ever gets on the other boot they can stick their Quaglinos up their jacksies."

 Isporty would like to know if fixture congestion has ever caused you to miss out on an important lunch or dinner, or indeed supper if you're posh. Or, more to the point, what's the worst fixture congestion you've ever experienced? Did it cost you the league?