FA Cup first round In yesterday’s Football Daily email, John Brewin previewed his pick of the weekend’s first round games featuring the return of his beloved Macc, a 40-year-old cult hero lining up for the lowest ranked team in the competition and the club that purports to be the oldest in London. Read on … For the FA Cup, the early rounds are the juice. The first round proper to be played out over the long weekend is looking, well, proper. And on Saturday at 3pm GMT, a proper time, 31 ties will kick off. No VAR, either. At the stage when the bottom two Football League divisions join the competition, focus remains on those non-league clubs fighting for the honour of the pyramid … Mansfield v Macclesfield In January, Macclesfield achieved the greatest shock in the competition’s history, knocking out the holders, Crystal Palace, in the third round. John Rooney’s National League North team head through the Pennines to face soundalikes Mansfield. Those from Macclesfield often find themselv