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Dog Mess & Stern Ref
Bournemouth Poppies 0 – 0 Truro FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round 2011/12 My first visit to Victoria Park in many years coincided with the hottest October day on record. I tentatively stepped out of the...
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Slough Shine Against Boreham Wood
Slough Town 3 – 2 Boreham Wood FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round 2011/12 The whole of southern England seemed to be heading for Brighton to enjoy the hottest October day ever. Except me. I needed to go the...
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Bucks Eye Coupler Goals As Town Run Out Of Steam
Bridgnorth Town 0 – 2 Long Buckby FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round 2011/12 The dates and associated events in the following sentences, I would never have expected to write; It’s October 1st and the...
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Rebels Held At Bay In Battle Of Attrition
Worthing 0 – 0 Beckenham Town FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round, Woodside Road, 1st October 2011 Playing against a Beckenham Town side which has consistently and impressively punched above its weight in the...
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Dulwich Hammered
Sutton United 5 – 1 Dulwich Hamlet – FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round 2011/12. Never, ever, in the time we’ve been doing this has there been a game where we didn’t have a beer before the game. There’s not...
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“You Don’t Know Who You’re Playing”
North Ferriby United 1 Ossett Albion 2 As cup shocks go this was not quite one for the history books, nor even the biggest upset on a day when a few giant-killers from past seasons found themselves...
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Don’t Dream It’s Over
Hendon 3 Lewes 0 Number 63 … Lewes …. will play ….. number 33 … Portsmouth. It had been a long week working and playing hard in New York. Sleep had been at a premium thanks to a combination time...
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Whitehawk Down at Top Field
Hitchin 5-0 Whitehawk (FA Cup 2nd Qual – Replay) Who remembers the Monty Python episode when they had trouble getting an Icelandic Saga started? They enlisted the help of the North Malden Icelandic...
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Is This The Way To Armadillo?
Arlesey 1-0 Dulwich (FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round) All you want from a trip out to the football championship is a good natter, a few pints and maybe a spot of lunch. The first two are easily acquired,...
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
Slough 5-1 Eastbourne I feel sorry for Premiership fans (sort of). As well as being ripped off and treated like mugs, they also have to put up with watching football on days that completely muck up the...
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Maidenhead Lack Bite
Oxford City 1-0 Maidenhead FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round 2013/14 Remember that classic FA Cup moment when Havant & Waterlooville took the lead at Anfield? Richard Pacquette, who scored that goal, was...
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Sussudio
Chalfont St Peter 0-1 Lewes FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round 2013/14 Recently, the dribble, the minutae, the waffle about this country’s football Premier League reached a new, frankly pathetic level of...
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The much vaunted ‘romance of the cup’ cliche is usually dragged out in the 3rd Round when a non league side (usually from the Conference) gets pitted against a big Premier League or Championship club...
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Poppies Plucked
Kettering 0-1 Chalfont St Peter FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round 2014/15 ‘Giant’ may be a relative term in the Lilliputian world of non-league football but Kettering Town have as good a case as many to...
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FC Romania 2-3 Sutton
On the first day of this year, Rochester & Strood MP Mark Reckless joined forces with up-and-coming young shrinking violet Keith Vaz at Luton Airport to greet the “influx” of immigrants that would...
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Sheffield 1-3 Warrington Town
Having followed Staveley Miners Welfare in the opening two rounds, it was time to change tack after their 1st Qualifying Round exit to Mickleover Sports. A draw for Sheffield FC away at Warrington Town...
View ArticleBig Team Beckons For Bravest Of The Brave
540 clubs have now exited this year’s FA Cup, but two of those still standing will not only face each other in the 3rd Qualifying Round, but will both be in extremely unchartered territory, neither...
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2nd Qual Review
FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round Review Where to start with this round? Such a marvellous plethora of interest. The disparity between sides in this round must make it one of the most potentially exciting...
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