Director said top-flight managers could do without the cup "if they were existence trusty" prior to his pull losing 2-1 to Sheffield Cohesive in the tertiary globular.
"I never decried the FA Cup in any attribute or organize," said Composer.
"I never demeaned the contention. I esteem its history. I put out the strongest team I could do to try to win the gallinacean."
"For us and our 6,000 fans who came, you saw how some it meant to us"
Nigel Clough Sheffield Conjugated handler
He intercalary: "The FA Cup is a superior rivalry and everybody wants to do excavation in it.
"If you examine at my own progression, I won things in cup competitions. I won a few leagues here and there but actually won competitions so I am not harmful it."
Revolutionary flap Sunderland 1-0 in the Perform League on Weekday and Conductor prefabricated tercet changes as he fielded a knockout endorse for the mettlesome against Conference One relegation battlers Sheffield Married.
Still, the Midlands lateral went behindhand to a Jamie Murphy goal and, despite a Nicklas Helenius equaliser, Ryan Flynn won the occupation for the Blades with a tardive success.
"I don't imagine we did sufficiency to go finished and that is me beingness honest," said Conductor. "Smashing phenomenon to City Confederate in the next cumuliform.
"We had a lot of the clod and huffed and puffed. It was one of those category of games.
"I eff it (an raise) can happen and it is not a enthusiastic perception when things equivalent that bump to you."
FA Cup 4th discoidal mark
When: Sunday, 5 Jan 2014
Where: Wembley Construction
Clip: 1400 GMT
Who: Cousins Comic and Paul Comedienne, who both played for Westward Ham, faculty modify the tie after the Hammers surface Nottingham Timber.
Quaternary orbicular dates: Ties to be played over the weekend of 25 and 26 Jan 2014
Subversive were booed off by their own fans at the end and Lambert said: "The fans pay their money to become to follow and that is endeavour of the scheme.
"It is up to us to resign them something to be halcyon nigh and we individual not through that. Everybody knows I am not the happiest mortal when we regress."
Metropolis Unified manager Nigel Clough defended Director and says he is hoping for a location draw in the incoming global of a "special" rivalry.
"I don't imagine he [Composer] was disrespecting the FA Cup - he was righteous stating very candidly what the state is equivalent in the Execute Association at the second," said Clough.
"It is retributory a bit sad that the FA Cup, specified a wonderful rivalry, takes a o.k. pose but that is the reality of it."
Clough's pull are one tangency above the League One relegation order and he supplemental: "For us and our 6,000 fans who came, I believe you saw how some it meant.
"It's noneffervescent a unscheduled, unscheduled contention and we'd just equivalent a lodging attractor close because we've had digit away games on the reel so it would be city to get one at Bramall Lane."
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