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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2009 20:19:32 GMT
Quick question of which I don't have an answer. What is the lowest status club to have ever reached an FA Cup Final?. One more. What is the furthest a Non League club has progressed in the competition? Pete, there are three ways of answering these questions (some more clever than others!!) The first is to be really clever and say all the winners between 1872 and 1887. This is because there were no leagues at the time. We'll not go down that path. The second is to say Spurs won the FA Cup in 1901 as a Southern League club. This needs to be placed into the context that, at the time, Woolwich Arsenal were the only FL club south of Birmingham. Consequently, because the Southern League was almost on a par with the FL, and was professional, it wouldn't be wholly correct to think of it as "Non League" in the modern meaning of the word. But it's the answer the books will give you. The third is to answer in the way you really mean which places the solution at some stage after the FL grew in the 1920s. Well, I don't know....but I did see Telford United in the 5th round at Everton in 1985 so anything better than that would be the quarter finals. I can't think of an example off hand. As for Football League finalists, there's never been one below the second tier of the game (now the Championship). |
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Post by weathergull on Jan 4, 2009 20:21:14 GMT
 I clicked on your profile and checked out your posting history......................negativity, doom and gloom most of the time. You'll tell me now you work at the Met Office!  "I've had a nagging feeling for some time that we will win this one" That was my quote BEFORE the Blackpool game merse! In my quote BEFORE the Coventry game I say i hope we get a good team in the "FIFTH" round! So, if that's me being negative, so be it SG merse! |
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Post by Dave on Jan 4, 2009 20:26:23 GMT
You tell him weathergull  look on the bright side, he did not call you a SAD LITTLE MAN he saves them just for little Dave  |
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Post by chelstongull on Jan 4, 2009 20:47:46 GMT
After Liverpool and Everton were the first two balls out I 'knew' that it wouldn't be a glamour tie and had ahorrid feeling it would be Hartlepool away.
A home draw followed by Coventry, very winnable and possible TV appearance. Kettering v Fulham will be on, Liverpool v Everton, Cardiff v Arsenal - after that we must shirley be the next best tie.
Here's to three points against Burton.
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Post by Rob on Jan 4, 2009 20:52:15 GMT
Derby and Forest - Billy Davis and Nigel Clough? Also Man Utd v Spurs?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2009 20:52:56 GMT
I was sat on a remote railway platform when I heard the draw and quite loudly proclaimed " we can ****ing win that!" Fear not, Eggesford station was completely deserted at the time. Memories of the trip to Highfield Road in 1988 when Coventry were the cup holders. That was a great day out. But we've done it before - in 1948/49 - when we knocked Coventry out in Round 3: 1-0 at Plainmoor; goal by Cameron in front of 12,000. Coventry were in Div 2 (now the Championship) at the time. 1988:  |
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Post by Dave on Jan 4, 2009 20:59:27 GMT
What a great day out it was Barton, the only ground I have been to that more sand on it than Torquay beech, a game I remember so well, where I felt we outplayed Coventry and a man called Regis scored by cheating, well thats how I remember it.
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Post by Rob on Jan 4, 2009 21:03:30 GMT
A teenager attending with my Grandad, I recall Caldwell's overhead kick as if it were yesterday.
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Post by Dave on Jan 4, 2009 21:07:45 GMT
Looking at the program Barton and what a great team that was, such good names on there and players who really did give everything out on the pitch when they put on their TUFC shirts.
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Post by jerry on Jan 5, 2009 8:58:31 GMT
Well it just had to be a home tie didn't it? I make that *6 home draws on the bounce now! I reckon we would even get drawn at home for the final!!
Coventry certainly is a winnable game, although they will surely be much better than Blackpool!
I would expect quite a large crowd for this one and would imagine they will sell all of their tickets as thay are still one of the better supported championship clubs.
Vouchers at the trophy game on Saturday might help to swell that crowd.
*EDIT: Make that 7 on the bounce! It's the 4th round but of course our 5th home tie as we had to play a qualifier!
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Post by daveshaw on Jan 5, 2009 9:21:36 GMT
Ok, it's not ManU. Like some others, when i first heard (Ta Jamie) i thought we can win this one. Coventry arn't pulling up any trees so why not?
Great performance and result from the boys. My wife thought i'd gone mad when we scored and laughed at my histrionics over the utterly CRAP Radio Devon coverage. I managed to get the 2nd half thanks to Hils over the yahoo cyber terrace. Something me and merse totally agree on.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2009 10:06:38 GMT
To answer a question - rather than tempt fate - the five post-war non-league runs to R5: Colchester 1947/48 (they didn't join the Football League until 1950): 4Q CHELMSFORD CITY H 3-1 1 BANBURY SPENCER H 2-1 2 WREXHAM H 1-0 3 HUDDERSFIELD TOWN H 1-0 4 BRADFORD PARK AVENUE H 3-2 5 BLACKPOOL A 0-5 Yeovil 1948/494Q LOVELLS ATHLETIC A 3-2 1 ROMFORD H 4-0 2 WEYMOUTH A 4-0 3 BURY H 3-1 4 SUNDERLAND H 2-1 5 MANCHESTER UNITED H 0-8 @ Manchester City Blyth Spartans 1977/78 1Q SHILDON A 3-0 2Q CROOK TOWN A 1-1 2Qr CROOK TOWN H 3-0 3Q CONSETT A 4-1 4Q BISHOP AUCKLAND A 1-0 1 BURSCOUGH H 1-0 2 CHESTERFIELD H 1-0 3 ENFIELD H 1-0 4 STOKE CITY A 3-2 5 WREXHAM A 1-1 5r WREXHAM H 1-2 @ Newcastle United Telford 1984/85 (after reaching R4 the year before by beating Stockport, Northampton and Rochdale) 1 LINCOLN CITY A 1-1 1r LINCOLN CITY H 2-1 2 PRESTON NORTH END A 4-1 3 BRADFORD CITY H 2-1 4 DARLINGTON A 1-1 4r DARLINGTON H 3-0 5 EVERTON A 0-3 Kidderminster 1993-94 (we beat them in R1 the following year) 4Q CHESHAM UNITED A 4-1 1 KETTERING TOWN H 3-0 2 WOKING H 1-0 3 BIRMINGHAM CITY A 2-1 4 PRESTON NORTH END H 1-0 5 WEST HAM UNITED H 0-1 www.fchd.info |
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Post by bbcgull on Jan 5, 2009 10:31:30 GMT
did anyone else see Di Matteo or whtever he is called, give a little look off recognition that he had drawn out the non league club when we came out.
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Post by petef on Jan 5, 2009 10:39:28 GMT
Good stuff Barton!
It puts our achievments in perspective and if we do reach rnd five we will be in a pretty exclusive clb.
I remember the Coventry match well. As i recall the game going ahead was very doubtful beacause of weather and the pitch being in a dreadful state. I can remember seeing it and thinking it looked more like a beach there was so much sand on it.
Dave Caldwell was awsome that day and it needed some tp drawer goalkeeping to do deny us. A very cold day as I remeber.
Quick question.
Which player in the Coventry City line that day up appeared a number of times in a Torquay shirt?
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Post by merse on Jan 5, 2009 11:22:45 GMT
Quick question. Which player in the Coventry City line that day up appeared a number of times in a Torquay shirt? Greg Downes (a "striker"when he came to us on loan from Norwich) of course! |
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look on the bright side, he did not call you a SAD LITTLE MAN he saves them just for little Dave 