Tag: FA Cup
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Walthamstow 4 Crawley Green 1
as as I expected, excellent. I’d love to have the time, or find the volunteers at Lewes who could produce such a fantastic publication. Despite managing our digital version, which I’m very proud of, I’d still love to be publishing a physical one. But I’m also very aware that the demand from fans at Lewes…
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Lewes 1 Southampton 2
Ah…the magic of the FA Cup. When is a shock not a shock in football? I’d imagine unless you had some interest/knowledge of the Women’s game you would have said Southampton’s win at The Dripping Pan today in the Fourth Round of the Vitality Women’s FA Cup was a shock? After all, Southampton are a…
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Price is only an issue in the absence of value
Few Non-League chairman won’t be jealous of Marine’s cup run that will have seen them gross around £500,000 and bring them national and international prominence. Whilst jealousy is one of the seven deadly sins, you have to admire the strategy the club took to capitalise on a very unique set of events and hope that…
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The Blueprint for the future of Non-League football – The FA Cup
Firstly, change the names of the rounds to be more inclusive. The current 1st Round is actually the 7th round of the competition, let’s not pretend it isn’t. This separatism suggests non league sides don’t count and are playing in a different competition just to get into the real competition, a feeling exemplified by the…
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Bulls create FA Cup history in the sun Shine
The second half saw the home side take a more direct approach, with the wind behind them. Finally the deadlock was broken when striker Gary Bradshaw poked home in what I thought was the 73rd minute. Alas, the official time-keeper ruled me a minute out. My career record of winning the golden goal still stands…
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The Christian way
The clubhouse was heaving when I arrived, not due to an influx of Groundhoppers, although there were a fair few of them too clutching their plastic programme wallets and discussing the merits of Britain’s smallest Wetherspoons (The Banker’s Draft up the road in Eltham apparently). There was a wedding reception on. South East London’s finest…
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In God’s Country
From the moment we paid £6 (SIX!) to get into the ground and saw the first prize in the raffle was a “do-it-yourself” breakfast, a upmarket spin on a meat raffle – well, it contained at least two non-meat products, we knew we had arrived in one of the closest places to Non League heaven.…
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US and them
We waited for kick off which was supposed to be 7.30pm, but as usual in US sports when the time arrived, nobody was where they should be. Luge had gone to sniff out some IPA whilst a small group of the RedBulls hardcore fans at the far end struck up a version of Twist and…
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At the Cole face
As the second half started, so did the rain. When it passed from torrential to monsoon setting, most of the 40-strong Lewes fans headed for the covered terrace, leaving the hardcore LLF on behind the goal. Our dedication was rewarded on the hour mark when Sam 1 (Crabb) beat his man on the right, crossed…
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A big weekend ahead for the underdogs
This weekend the First Round properly gets underway in which there are 40 ties involving League One, League Two and non-league clubs from various steps of the football pyramid. Teams like Warrington Town, AFC Fylde and East Thurrock United all get their chance to shine in what will be one of the biggest games in…
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With am or without you
What did I write earlier? Ah yes, “What could go wrong?” Well how about everything! The FA Cup holds no magic on days like these. Played off the park by a team who had 10 men for a third of the game, scoring one of our goals because an idiot of an official decided to…
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Best Song Ever
Did we enjoy our afternoon? Too right. It was a classic cup tie where league positions went out of the window. The final twenty minutes where the United team never gave up running at the Fulham defence despite the leaden conditions under foot were edge of the seat stuff and the Blades fans can be…
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Ebbsfleet suffer at the hands of a wayward Cook
I was joined by the edge of the pitch by a Dartford-supporting groundhopper. He was a tad deaf, meaning he shouted at me despite our proximity. He had given up watching Dartford, he told me, because all they did was play “long ball rubbish”. “We only score from set pieces” he told me, bemoaning the…
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Remember the Spartans
Once again lady luck was at the FA when the draw was made and part-timers Burscough were drawn out at home, with a single goal enough to take them into Round Two where they met Chesterfield. Whilst they had ridden their luck to get to this stage, there was no fluke about the win versus…
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I don’t care about the truth, I want some happiness
Some may have come with the hope of a giant killing but Dan Smith’s goal after just 90 seconds was enough to put the Rooks into the pot on Monday along with the £4,500 prize money. Despite the solitary goal, Lewes rarely looked troubled and should have gone on to score more goals. With injuries…
The Ball is Round 