That is a concern, but it's Thursday and the match isn't for another 2 days. If they really want this to go ahead they'll make it happen.
.. just playing with you Oregon - actually I'm really disappointed with the decline of the cup - remember a cup-tie at your (old) place late 70s (possibly early 80s) - fond memories for me - we took a hell of a good following up there and I pulled with a girl from Thurmaston during the match (we won 1-0) ,, contrast that with our tie against ?Burton where we closed two sides of the ground! ... not what it was - just look at this link to an earlier age http://www.lcfc.com/news/article/160113-twih-an-epic-cup-tie-604134.aspx
you and me both. but times change and we move on. was it the League Cup by any chance? we drew 3-3 at Filbert Street then won the replay 3-2. Roger Devries played something like 400 games for us, scored 2 goals, one of them that night past Shilton. in the same year that you had that epic against Birmingham we set our record attendance of 55,000 in the 6th round.
No - FA Cup 3rd round I think - we were a (then) First Div side but were crap - Franck McLintock was our manager and he brought in many of his old playing buddies from the Arsenal double winning team (by then largely past it) - George Armstrong got the goal - I was a teenager 18 or 19 - recall we went out in the next round away at Walsall! - to a very late Alun Evans goal ...
Just looked it up 7 Jan 1978 (my mother's birthday no less) - I'd have been in the 6th form at school - not long turned 18 ...
I (probably) didn't go to that match. I was an impoverished student in Newcastle at the time and didn't make it down for many games.
Bloomfield Road* Apparently whilst we had 613 down at Orient for a virtual reserve game against lower league opponents, Fulham had 37 at Blackpool. (according to the live text commentary thing on the BBC website on the night)
