One of the main attractions is the potential for a giant killing, when a lower league or even non-league side take the headlines by eliminating a side that usually they would not have the chance to share the same pitch as.

While the importance of the FA Cup has slowly become ebbed away, partly due to the prestige and wealth of the Premier League and Champions League, the tradition of the competition endures.

Organisers have altered tradition slightly this year, with kickoff times in all 32 cup ties being delayed by one minute over the weekend.

It has left the curious sight of matches officially starting at 3.01pm in the afternoon in some cases.

The change has come as part of a "Heads Up" campaign, launched in 2016, which aims to raise awareness of the importance of looking after our mental health.

The Heads Up campaign has been led by Football Association President Prince William, who narrated a film that has been broadcast at matches featuring several current and former players with the message to encourage more people to discuss their mental health.

It has been hoped that that the delay to kickoff times will encourage people to consider how they can work to improve their own mental health or potentially support someone else, with links to resources from Heads Up charity partners Mind, CALM, Heads Together and Sporting Chance provided.

At the very least, the simple but effective change of moving kickoff times back one minute will have gathered the attention of people who may have previously been unaware of the campaign.

Organisers believe the campaign can help make it easier for people to feel comfortable talking about their mental health, with an aim of creating the "biggest conversation" around men’s mental health considered one of the key goals.

While men are viewed as being less willing to talk about their mental health, the subject is one that sport is increasingly happy to take on.

Mental health was one of the topics that emerged in two sporting documentaries I watched over the Christmas period, which highlighted the challenges of elite sport but could also be applied to everyday life.

The first, titled The Edge, looks back on England’s rise from a Test team struggling to perform in 2009 to their ascent to the top of the rankings in 2011.

Given the current England team’s current struggles with the bat, some fans may hold out of a repeat in the coming years. However, if there is to be a repeat, lessons will hopefully have been learned from the last time.

The documentary initially focuses on England’s goal to become the top ranked Test team, under non-nonsense Zimbabwean coach Andy Flower, including an entertaining part when he dispatches the players on a gruelling army-style boot camp in Germany for a team bonding exercise.

After achieving their stated aim, players in the documentary express how they felt almost underwhelmed by the feat. The struggle to reset their aims from becoming the best team in the world to merely setting about maintaining their current position in the standings also appears to rise to the surface fairly quickly.

The latter part of the film focuses on the collapse of the team, both on and off the field of play.

There are frank admissions from the likes of spin bowler Monty Panesar, who admits he increasingly isolated himself under the pressure to perform.

Jonathan Trott, however, becomes the central figure as the film explores his emergence as the rock in England’s batting line-up to his eventual departure from the team due to a stress related illness. Trott speaks candidly about the toll the pressure of success took, including the months away from home and desire not to be seen as showing weakness. Flower himself reflects upon how he would handle the team differently towards the end of the film, admitting coaching style may have contributed to the decline of the team, as well as its initial rise.

Conversation around mental health in cricket appears to have become a more discussed subject in general. All-rounder Glenn Maxwell and batsmen Will Pucovksi among players to have withdrawn from selection to the Australian team in recent months to focus on their mental health.

The second documentary, Resurfacing, centres around Andy Murray’s recovery from a long-term hip problem to return to tennis.

Although largely focusing on the physical injury and pain, along with the gruelling rehabilitation process the Amazon Prime documentary also offers important insights into Murray’s own state of mind.

He admits the sport has served as an escape for him from the Dunblane massacre of 1996, as well as other personal issues during his early years, including his parents’ divorce.

At one stage faced with the prospect he may be forced to retire prematurely from the sport, the three-time Grand Slam champion openly expresses his fears about how he will cope without the structure to his day and what he will do without the sport.

This takes on a greater significance when Murray bursts into tears court-side after beating Marius Copil at the Citi Open in Washington, where after three gruelling matches he appears to acknowledge his career may be over with the hip problem remaining.

While Murray has since returned to the sport following an operation to resurface his hip, the Scottish star will one day have to cope with leaving the sport for good.

He will not be the only one to face this challenge, with numerous athletes likely to conclude their careers after competing at this year’s Olympic and Paralympics Games in Tokyo.

Others perhaps will face the challenge posed by achieving their lifetime aims in the Japanese capital, similarly to England’s cricket team hitting the top of the world rankings.

Thankfully, sport appears to be increasingly posing questions about how it can tackle the mental health challenges these issues pose.

Increased discussion on the topic of mental health is certainly a good starting point.