One of the best days of the season when no one is actually playing, first round draw. Some great names are in the hat, for the 7pm draw, and supporters of the 'little clubs' will be glued to the TV/radio. I always try to get to one of the matches involving one of the NE clubs or, failing that, one of my local teams ...... great crack. Tonight's draw includes Hartlepool, Carlisle, Gateshead, Spennymoor & Blyth Spartans. One of the best cup runs I've ever been on was with Blyth Spartans which ended up with us being locked out of a totally crammed SJP. A 3rd round Sunderland away game at Mansfield, Notts County, Sheff Utd would be great for me. FA Cup first-round draw numbers 1 - Accrington Stanley 2 - AFC Wimbledon 3 - Barnsley 4 - Bradford 5 - Bristol City 6 - Burton Albion 7 - Bury 8 - Cambridge 9 - Carlisle 10 - Cheltenham 11 - Chesterfield 12 - Colchester 13 - Coventry 14 - Crawley 15 - Crewe 16 - Dagenham & Redbridge 17 - Doncaster 18 - Exeter 19 - Fleetwood 20 - Gillingham 21 - Hartlepool 22 - Leyton Orient 23 - Luton 24 - Mansfield 25 - MK Dons 26 - Morecambe 27 - Newport 28 - Northampton 29 - Notts County 30 - Oldham 31 - Oxford 32 - Peterborough 33 - Plymouth 34 - Port Vale 35 - Portsmouth 36 - Preston 37 - Rochdale 38 - Sc**thorpe 39 - Sheffield United 40 - Shrewsbury 41 - Southend 42 - Stevenage 43 - Swindon 44 - Tranmere 45 - Walsall 46 - Wycombe 47 - Yeovil 48 - York City 49 - Spennymoor Town or AFC Telford 50 - AFC Fylde 51 - Grimsby 52 - Norton or Shildon 53 - Warrington Town 54 - Alfreton or Lincoln 55 - Macclesfield or Wrexham 56 - Chorley or Halifax 57 - Altrincham 58 - Leek or Blyth Spartans 59 - Chester 60 - Gateshead 61 - Tamworth or Southport 62 - Bristol Rovers 63 - East Thurrock 64 - Forest Green Rovers 65 - Dartford 66 - Maidstone 67 - Gosport Borough 68 - Weston-Super-Mare 69 - Eastbourne Borough or Dover Athletic 70 - Weymouth or Braintree 71 - Worcester City 72 - Canvey Island or Havant & Waterlooville 73 - Concord Rangers 74 - Basingstoke or Harrow Borough 75 - Aldershot 76 - Eastleigh 77 - Bromley 78 - Chelmsford or Barnet 79 - Nuneaton or Hemel Hempstead 80 - Woking Ties to be played on 7, 8, 9, 10 November 2014
I was at that Blyth match as well, well, we got locked out. Wrexham wasn't it? I play golf with the captain of the Spartans team every year, John Waterson. Cracking bloke.
It was mate, fantastic cup run that was. We'd gone down to Wrexham and the locals were totally overwhelmed by the travelling support There were thousands of green & white scarves as well as loads of Sunderland, Newcastle ....... all mixed in together in that big open end! Blyth were robbed of victory by a ****e refereeing decision but at least they got a big payday at SJP.
That's the one, right in front of us. At the end of the match the Wrexham supporters went on the pitch to celebrate, got carried away & came up to the away end to taunt us. The Blyth supporters started to scale the fences and Wrexham legged it out of the ground
You're on a winner today mate. You started a thread and there's no "offensive" tags appeared yet. Mind you, it'll only be a matter of time before you get "owned" by the gc squad again. . Bunch of tossers.
I was at the Blyth v Wrexham game too....If my memory serves me correctly, I think they were going to play their next game at Roker Park had they won..
Hell of a turnout mate I also 'remember' going to Elland Road to see Blyth play Hull in some kind of 2nd or 3rd replay. The memory is hazy though, I also followed Enfield, in the cup, during that period as my Father-in-Law was from there.
Wasn't Ron Guthrie playing for Blyth that year? A lot of happy memories for him, I'll bet. You're right about "great names" Boots. Just in my lifetime, I've seen three of those teams win the Cup (Portsmouth, Coventry and MK Dons) and two others as losing finalists (Preston and Luton). That's without going back any further. Bury were the first team to win the cup twice in the 20th century (about 1900 and 1904 off the top of my head). And the FA Cup before this one was manufactured in Bradford (somewhere around 1908-1910). Bradford City went to Wembley in the first year and brought it back again! And you could write a book on the stories I've missed out. Brilliant competition, this one.
Can't believe you've left Shildon out bud. One of my locals and the lowest ranked team left in the draw, a few of my mates were at the game on Saturday and they nearly pulled off a win. Hate the replay rule in the FA Cup.
I did look and wan't sure if it was 'our Shildon' or some imposter from Gloucester. That's why I said 'Tonight's draw includes .....' to cover me tracks but I'll consider mesel busted.
Excellent draw for Shildon I'll be going to Mansfield Town v Concord Rangers, how many times do you get to see Concord these days .........
I always hope for a really tough draw in the cup - at least that way it takes away the possibility of being humiliated. I'm still haunted by Ronnie Radford and fed up of seeing that bloody goal. They showed it again tonight!!!
Not just the pitch, but the standing fans held back by a skimpy rope. I think that's partly why we don't see so many upsets anymore. Those pitches and grounds really were a great leveller. I think its a shame those days have gone now.
