Latest / The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast / LISTEN BACK TO SOME GREAT GIANT KILLING F.A. CUP 3RD ROUND STORIES OVER THE YEARS.

Transcript

LISTEN BACK TO SOME GREAT GIANT KILLING F.A. CUP 3RD ROUND STORIES OVER THE YEARS. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Good morning support lovers of folks. Then this is Kevin
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Daley here standing in for Adidalks today. Had a little
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: text from Ady quite late last night. He's not feeling
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: too clever and do you know what? I was going
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: to have to day off as well. Still the show
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: must go on. We are a team. I'm just getting
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: over the flu. Well I hope I am anyway, but
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: it's nice to be in a studio, nice water studio
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning on your own, not spreading any Germans.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: So today I'll definitely be making it up as we
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: go along because I've got those scripts on a Saturday,
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: I leave that up to Asia and then I just
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: chip in now and then, so stay with us anyway.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: He owes me one night to get out and scrape
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: all the ice off the car while he's tapped up
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: in bed listening to me. Anyway, we're going to try
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: and check out all the local sporting fixtures. Don't travel
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: until you find out what's going on. But today it's
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: a special day. Actually it's the third round of the
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: FA Cup and we're going to talk about that and
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: talk about some of the old classy games that you
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: might remember. This is the best day of the FA.
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: Cup calendar in my opinion? Do you know what I love?
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: This is intro song If you didn't know who it is,
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: it's Booker T and the MG's time is tight. It's
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: a great tuned outstart, isn't it too? Saturday morning?
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: So let's get the show on the road. From nineteen
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: ninety five? We got supergrass? All right, supergrass there nineteen
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: ninety five, all right, get you in the mood or
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: a Saturday morning. If you're still chucked up in bed,
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: stay there. It is bitter outside today. I got in
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: the car. Well what I do? I've got two keys
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: to the car, and I go out almost in mean pecharmers.
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: Start the car, lock it up and pull the heaty
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: one inside it, you know before lock it up, and
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: then go indoors and have a cup of tea and
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: when it's time come out, nice warm car. Is there
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: anyone we need a couple of bouncy songs on a Saturday,
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: don't we to kind of get you in the mood
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: before you go out. You've got to go out and
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: do some shopping sometime, you know. Okay, So today third
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: round of the FA Cup a classic date in the
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: calendar the day.
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: If you like Neutrals, look forward to there too.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: You might not be playing, but we're always looking out
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: for the giants versus the minnows. So I'm gonna say
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: little called footfair. Okay, So last night unfortunately aston Villa
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: beat west Ham.
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: Today I'll just pick out some of the games.
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: There's lots of classic games, but I've just picked out
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: like tomorrow, we got Chelsea from the Premier Division are
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: playing Morecambe from Division Two. We've got Leeds United from
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: the Championship playing Harrogate and these teams are only fifteen
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: miles apart. So it's good for the supporters, it's good
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: for Harrogate who probably been living in the shadow of
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: Leeds for years and years. We've got Liverpool from the
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: Premier are playing Acrington Stanley. Come on, show your age
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: who remembers that advert with the milk? It just stands
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: in your mind, doesn't it. Anyway, Liverpool are playing Akinston Stanley.
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: They're from Afield Division two and they're less than fifty
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: miles apart.
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: This must be the closest one.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: Manchester City from the Premier Division are playing at Salford
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: City from a division two and they are just five
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: miles apart. Now, if you live in Salford and you're
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: a Salford supporter, it must be very tempting to just
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: drive five miles up the road and watch Manchester. See
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: it's tough for a team, a minnow team living in
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: a shadow of now a giant team. But I really
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: hope that Salford do well today and they get a
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: great support and show their neighbors what real football is
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: all about. Okay, so we've got this is a bit
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: interesting for the Kentish fans today. We've got Newcastle are
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: at home from the Premier and they're praying Bromley from
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: Division two. And it wasn't so long in fact last
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: year that Bromley were in the Nationwide League and they
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: won the playoffs. So that one's on at three o'clock
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: with BBS that's tomorrow. And the other one, the big,
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: big one that must stand out is a national league.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: Tamworth are playing Premier League Tottenham Hotspur. Now Tamworth is
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: near Birmingham, so they're about one hundred and twenty miles apart.
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: The game's televised twelve thirty ITV one that's on Sunday,
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: but I've said it on Thursday. The sad thing about
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: this is that Tamworth won't get a chance to play
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. They change the rules. There
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: must be a decision today Tamworth. Even if they get
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: to extra time, they've got to go to penalties. There's
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: got to be a result. So you know, the dream
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: of playing at a Premier League ground is gone, which
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: is a massive shame.
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: It kind of I don't know.
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: It's like a kick in the tee for tradition really
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: because a bit later on in the show, I've been
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: digging out some classic third round ties that have been
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: played over the years, and anyway we come to that shortly.
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: And also we've got who remembers back in nineteen seventy
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: nine what a third round tie that was. Again, i'll
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: tell you about that later. But the FA Cup always
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: used to be just Saturday afternoon three o'clock. Now it
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: spills onto Monday. There's even one game Monday evening a
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: Millwall from the Championship are playing National League Dagenham and Redbridge.
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: I mean it's good for TV.
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: It's on TV seven thirty, ITV to four, ITV four
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: and the two teams are just fifteen miles apart. So
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: it's basically a good local London derby. But there's the
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: actual third round. It started on Thursday and finishes on Monday.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: But it's good for the punter if you're a TV
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: supporter and you want to just watch all the games
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: back to back. Were a great opportunity, right Okay. Now
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: during the week. I don't know whether it unnoticed, but
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: I didn't hear any of these songs.
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: There's a certain gentleman.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: It would have been his birthday and no sorry, it
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: would have been the day that he passed away, tenth
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: of January twenty sixteen. And that gentleman made such a
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: name for himself back in the day, and his name
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: was David Bowie. So let's have a little tribute here
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: to David Bowie and a touch of starman.
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: Didn't know what.
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: Time it was that were.
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: I lean back on my razy.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, So I just want to give I think it's
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: only fair to give Sitting Born to mention. Now Sitting
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: Born in the FA Trophy and on the first of
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: February they they've gotten a way draw against South in
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: United Now the incentive anyway obviously is Wembley, but the
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: winners get six thousand pound and the losers get one thousand,
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty. Now the capacity at roots Hall
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: is currently eleven thousand, five hundred, but the record attendance
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: back in nineteen seventy nine was again in the third
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: round of the FA Cup, when thirty one thousand and
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: thirty three people squeezed into roots Hall and they played Liverpool.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: And do you know what, It was just by sheer
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: accident that I found a clip on YouTube of this game,
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: and before I started the clip, I didn't notice score.
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: Oh my word, what a great game.
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: It was a typical old English nineteen late nineteen seventies.
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: In the snow.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: You know all that had been done with the pitch
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: is was they swept the Lons and probably the groundsmen
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: about our past two. Oh well, get out with the
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: broom and sweep the Lions. And the ball didn't go anywhere,
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: The ball got stuck in the snow.
• 10:07
  Speaker 2: We had people, I mean, world class players.
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: I've just got a few names here, Ray Clements, Graham Sooners,
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Case, McDermott, Hanson, fairclough Dale, Gleish, Kenny dal Gleish
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: he got the ball, normally he would turn on a sixpence.
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: He couldn't do a thing.
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: Ray Kennedy great goalscorer, and Steve Highway used to skin
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: wingers got nowhere and South End adapted to the conditions
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: and in the last five minutes of the game they
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: absolutely hammered Liverpool. But at the score Neil Neil, usual
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: thing that happens. But at least they got a chance
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: to go to anfield. They had their day. They went
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: to anfield and they lost free Neil, but there was
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: absolutely taking no prisoners. Then what a great memory for
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: South End supporters. So yeah, so that came from me
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: sort of chasing up FA trophy stuff and so good
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: luck to sitting Born on the first of February when
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: they play South End. That must be worth a little
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: trip down there. Actually, I think that'd be a pretty
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: good game. I love that track. That's Paul la Carle.
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: Where have all the cowboys got nineteen ninety six? Okay,
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: can't believe it's twenty two already, So we better crack
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: on and I've got some more stuff here about the
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: third round and I'm going to take you back now
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: over the years some of the giant killings that took
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: place in the third round this weekend are very many
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: years ago. So we're going to in no particular order
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: this Actually we're going to jump back to seventh of
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: January nineteen eighty nine when non league Sutton were at
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: home to Division One at the time, and now that's
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: eighty nine. Don't forget the Premier League didn't start till
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: ninety two, so Coventry were in the top flight and
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: it was only that I think it was year season
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: before they'd actually won the cup. Anyway, something beat them
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: two to one. So what weekend that must have been.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: So this is I'll tell you about the most famous.
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: One of all.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: You're all going to remember this way February seventy two.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: It started off at home Newcastle, Newcastle two here for two.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: In the replay, well, no one will forget that Ronnie
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: Radford long range strike to make it one all Malcolm
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: McDonald who was playing for Newcastle, and the cross come
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: over and he leaped head and bounds to not the
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: ball in to take the lead for Newcastle. But that
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: goal by Ronnie Radford made it one all. The crowd
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: went man run onto the pitch who can blame him?
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: Then extra time come along another name that will live
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: in the memory and the annals of football history. Ricky George.
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: He turned on what must have been a dust been lit.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: It was so maddy and he hit the winner and
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: the crowd went ballistic. That was in nineteen seventy two
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: and sadly last year, last November, I think it was
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: Ronnie Radford passed away, but what a legacy he left.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: Moving on to January two thousand and three, now Shrewsbury
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: Town were up against Everton and Shrewsbury Town were in
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: the bottom. They were right at the bottom of the
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: Football League and a young Wayne Rooney was playing for Everton.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: But Shrewsbury scored the winner in the eighty ninth minute
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: and they beat him to one. There's so many goals
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: in the third round extra time, you know, eighty ninth,
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: ninetieth minute, you just on the edge of your see okay,
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: moving on to a ninety one. Now this is a
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: good one for Ishmian League followers. West brom Jalbion. We're
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: in Division two at the time and Ishmian League Woking
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: beaten four to two at the Hawthorns and I love
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: this because this always used to come up and this
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: sort of thing every year computer specialist Tim buzaglo Is
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: called a hat trick and whenever there was like minnows
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: against giants, it was always like, yeah, he's a blowuster,
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: he's electrician. Yeah, he can't stay after the game, he's
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: got a job to do. Such great grassroots stories. Moving
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: on to January ninety two, Wrexham played Arsenal at Rixham
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: Rerexham were rooted at the bottom of the four Division.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: The Gunners went one nil up and Mickey Thomas scored
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: a stunning free kick to make it one all again.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: I saw this on YouTube a few days ago. It
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: hit the back, it didn't break the back of the net,
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know. And then Steve Watkins went on and
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: they scored two to one and the Wrexham beat Arsenal
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: two to one. Now, AIDI will love this one if
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: you're listening, Ad, because I know that when Folkson went
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: to Wrexham, I think you told me Mickey Thomas made
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: you a cup of two?
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Is that right?
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: So twenty nineteen, Newport County were in the fourth tier
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: of the English Football and they played Leicester City, who
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: are in the Premier Division and guess.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: What, Newport beat them two to one.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Height for January twenty eleven, Stevenage, Now they've got a
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: great cup per pedigree. They were in the second division
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: of the English Football League and at home they beat
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Newcastle Newcastle United, who were in the Premier at the time.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: They beat them two to one. And then all right,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: it's a big jump. But to twenty twenty three. They
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: played Aston Villa at Villa Park. Villa were leading with
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: two minutes to go. Villa had players sent off and
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: the was converted to make it one. Injury time, Den
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Campbell made it two to one Stevenage and Stevenage will
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: rank fifty nine places below Aston Villa and they've beaten
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: two one at Villa Park. How good and romantic is that?
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: What memories those fans will have? And I hope that
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: some of those memories can be recreated again. Okay, so
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: it's time for call to al. Really, I've got one
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: more classic story. I've got to tell you about the
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: three third round of the FA Cup. But I'm going
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: to play this song now. I love this one is
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Yusundor and Nina Cherry. It's called seven Seconds Now When
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: I had a guest in here once upon a time
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: at Kersey Hogbin.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: This came up on the playlist and it's so funny.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Kirsty is a cold water swimmer and she said that
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I was born to this song. So I thought she
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: was just like you know, I had an affiliation with it.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: But she wasn't.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: When her mum was giving birth, this song was actually
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: playing and it's it was such a funny moment on
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: the on the radio station.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: So let's have a little listen back.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: This is for you, Kirsty Us and Door and Nanny
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Cherry and seven seconds Monday. There there we go using
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Door and Nana Cherry's seven seconds. It was in nineteen
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: ninety four year Kersey Hogbin was born to that song exactly.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I love that story, right, So it's time to cast
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: your mind back to third round of the FA Cup
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine. On Saturday, January the sixth, it looked
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: like a pretty straightforward extra Cheffer Wednesday from the then
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: third Division. We're playing Arsenal. Was the score one all
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: game one. Then on Tuesday, January ninth, it was a
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: replay back of Highbury Arsenal won Sheffel Wednesday one, two games,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Game three. Now, the game three was played at Leicester
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: on Monday the fifteenth, Arsenal two, Sheffer Wednesday two. What
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: so it went on Game four Wednesday, January seventeenth, once
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: again at Leicester, loads of goals. Arsenal three, Cheffer Wednesday
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: three January twenty second. Game five at Leicester, Arsenal finally
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: cracked it. Arsenal two, Sheffer Wednesday Neil. Now that year
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Arsenal went on to win the final, beating mansester United
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: three games to two, and they played ten games including
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the final and then back in those days, actually Jackie
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Cholten was manager of Sheffiel Wednesday and I do believe
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Terry Neil was the manager of Arsenal. Now imagine five
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: games over that period of time and now they've just
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: got to have a result on the very first game.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: All right, one extreme to another, but at least give
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the minnows a chance to play at a big club.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Now does anyone remember that?
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, I've come across it by a mistake, but
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: it did bring back memories. I'm not an Arsenal or
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: a Sheffer Wednesday supporter, but I do remember those classic
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: games and you must have imagine how.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Fit those players were.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: They were playing in muddy boggie pitches, you know, And
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: now players are wrapped up in cotton wall, they play
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: on billiard tables, and I'm going off on one ear. Okay,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: so what we've got now, we've got a bit of
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: an end people. I think to always love these end people.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Always thought they were very underrated, and so why not
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: have a little listen to them. Send people there, don't
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: look any further, have a Saturday afternoon in watch the chilly,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: watch the sport. In the meantime, I've found this on
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the playlist. I just don't pit to cheer you up
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: on this freezing cold Saturday, and hopefully I'll be back
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: on Thursday. I am too sexy for my love, too
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: sexy for my love.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Love's going to leave.