Notts County No2 Gavin Rae did their post-match media conference after victory over Sunderland because of manager Paul Ince's superstitions.
Former Sunderland midfielder Rae was sent up to do the post-match press conference by superstitious manager Ince after doing so throughout the League One club's unbeaten seven-game run.
Meanwhile, Sunderland boss Steve Bruce cut a forlorn figure as he surveyed the wreckage of another short-lived cup adventure.
He made seven changes to the side which won 1-0 at Aston Villa in midweek, some of them enforced, but others with one eye on next Sunday's derby clash with Newcastle.
He said: "Certainly by looking at what we have just witnessed today with six or seven missing, we simply aren't good enough.
"With six or seven [out], we simply couldn't handle it, so that's the disappointing thing for me.
"People who have been knocking on my door wanting a game were, unfortunately today, found sadly wanting.
"I'm not going to try to make excuses, that would be unfair on Notts County. We have to accept that we were nowhere near good enough.
"Simply on the day, we didn't perform well enough, and when you perform like that and you are lacklustre like we were, then we got exactly what we deserved.
"We got our backsides kicked, and rightly so."
