Of course but that's not what we are discussing is it, if your team aren't playing, or you can't get a ticket and your local town team are away in the cup then what's the problem with turning out and boosting their support? Like I said it's a day on the piss, with the lads out of your local boozer, no loss to your actual team who probably don't give a flying fuck about you anyway, as proved by the amount of fans on here who have beefs with City over the way they are treated.
You say you can relate to it but it's clear you don't. I can guarantee every single one of the smaller lower league/non league clubs who get to the January rounds of the cup and get an away tie will take loads of fans who are only going because it's a day on the piss, with mates, nothing whatsoever to do with who you support every other weekend.
Fair play to Boreham Wood for that performance, they'll still only get a few hundred against Altrincham a week on Tuesday, twas ever thus.