Falling At The First Hurdle
Hello and welcome to 90s Football Heaven, a new place to relive football's greatest decade! As it's the weekend of the first round proper of this season's FA Cup, we thought we'd jump into the past and have a look at some occasions during the 1990s when non-league teams toppled established Football League clubs at this stage of the famous old competition. Here are five of our favourites. Hednesford Tame The Tigers (1997-98) Twelve months previously, Hednesford Town hadn't played in the first round proper of the FA Cup since the 1920s. After beating Southport in the first round, The Pitmen embarked on a run that took in victories over Blackpool and York City before only losing 3-2 to eventual finalists Middlesbrough in the fourth round at the Riverside. Fast forward a year and Hednesford were top of the Conference (that's the National League in old money) and found themselves making the trip to Boothferry Park to take on a Hull City team languishing towards th...