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I dread to mention this but..........

The last time a team from this level defeated a team from tier one of the English League was in 1989 when Sutton United knocked out Coventry City.

Millwall haven't changed - Coventry played them the same day as this match - trouble before the game - when they must have fancied their chances given our form at home - trouble after the game, and trouble in the evening in town. Always been trouble.

I love this entry, really captures the famous 'romance of the FA Cup'. I'm no great football fan (such interests as I do have also lie at Plainmoor) but there's nothing so enjoyable in the modern game as a lower league team on a giant-killing run.

Only one suggestion, for overseas and younger reader perhaps the reference to dear old Eddie Waring might need a footnote?

Thanks McKay. I remember when Portsmouth drew them a couple of years ago - the Millwall yobs ambushed the travelling fans in a pub at Waterloo and attacked them with pool balls.

Thanks Parrferris - much appreciated. I've added a BBC link to the great man.

Icy

A "giantkilling" piece that doesn't mention Sunderland beating Leeds in 1973. For that alone, this gets full marks!

Damn, I forgot to mention that 6-1 at nearby Fratton Park

Entry: Hawks over Anfield - The Diary of an FA Cup Run - A29803269
Author: Icy North - U225620

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Really nice entry, but no useful suggestions from me.

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Icy

Hi there Icy - sorry it's taken so long for a Sub to get their hands on this. The Entry's at A32364308 and lies more or less unchanged apart from an obligatory mention of the Forest-Arsenal link from the 1890s.

Alex

Hi Alex

Nice job! I didn't know that about the Arsenal shirts.

A few things have happened since I wrote it - Liverpool being knocked out by Barnsley for one thing. I think it needs an epilogue, but maybe I should write it at the end of the season (The Hawks are still outsiders for promotion too).

Send it back to the Eds and I'll work on an end-of-season update in May.

Icy

Off it goes