The FA Cup Run

Ron · May 4, 2013

[video=youtube;rWsIwIpA9wo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rWsIwIpA9wo[/video]

philhythe · May 6, 2013

Thanks for the link Ron makes you look forward to the new season, you never know what is going to happen

luvgonzo · May 7, 2013

Here's another article on it.

http://twohundredpercent.net/?p=2726

It’s the FA Cup First Round this weekend so, in the first of five pieces about the Oldest Cup Competition In The World (and there’s a phrase that is probably copyrighted by The FA), we take a look back at Wycombe Wanderers’ run to the semi-finals of the competition in 2001.

The FA Cup is a competition that throws up surprise results every season, but some records remain and one that may never be broken is that no-one from the bottom two divisions of the Football League has made The FA Cup final. If we go back far enough, there are traces of lower divsion clubs excelling in the competition – Tottenham Hotspur, for example, were a Southern League club when they beat Sheffield United after a replay in 1901 – but since the 1920/21 season when the Football League Division Three came into being, nobody from outside the top two divisions of English football reached the final of the country’s most iconic competition.

Clubs from outside the top two divisions do, however, occasionally appear in the semi-finals of the competition. In 1984, Plymouth Argyle ran Watford close at Villa Park, having beaten Derby County and West Bromwich Albion on the way and, in 1997, Chesterfield led Middlesbrough in the first semi-final match between the two clubs at Old Trafford and took them to a replay before bowing out. Surely the most remarkable of these runs, however, belongs to Wycombe Wanderers who, in 2001, made it to Villa Park and pushed Liverpool all the way from a mid-table position in League One, throwing in a last minute penalty save in the Fifth Round and a winning goal in their quarter-finals from a player that had only signed for the club as an emergency signing a few days before the match.

Wycombe’s run in 2001 was made all the more remarkable when taking into account how far the club had come just to get to the third tier of English football in the first place. The key year for the club was 1990. Prior to this, they had been a reasonably successful amateur club (members of the Isthmian League from 1921, and winners of a clutch of titles in that league) before becoming something of a yo-yo club between the Football Conference and the Isthmian League during the mid to late 1980s. In 1990, however, the club moved from its Loakes Park home to the newly-built Adams Park and installed an ambitious young manager called Martin O’Neill as their manager. Three years later, the club was promoted into the Football League and won promotion again at the first attempt.

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Ron · May 7, 2013

Thanks for that LG

luvgonzo · May 7, 2013

Ron said: ↑

Thanks for that LG
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No probs. I remember that season well. I watched the final in a pub in Lyon.

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