FA Cup

[Brin]

Well the curse of the MM Road To Wembley strikes by my calculation for the 5th time as Beaconsfield lose 2-1 to Concord Rangers. Whenever the draw is made, get your money on their opponents in the next round. In the meantime I'll see what Wikipedia or the general WWW has to offer in terms of nuggets of trivia.

PS Just 3 months before we make our annual spectacle of ourselves in the competition. Here's hoping we draw whoever's on our Road To Wembley but with our past history we all know what will happen

CAM I think we'll have a good cup run this year, not saying owt about 2019 though.

[Lolmorgan]

Dover Athletic in the next round play Concord Rangers.

[CAMiller]

Dover Athletic in the next round play Concord Rangers.

Thanks Lol. Looks like I was one out as there is another preliminary round before the little 'big' boys enter the competition and 3 more rounds before we enter and leave

After our foreign travels to FC Romania a couple of rounds back we're 'abroad' again with Concord Rangers who are based on Canvey Island and are actually named after Concord beach. They have a famous name in goal, Sam Beasant, son of Wimbledon's Wembley hero Dave and up front there's Nana Boakye-Yiadom who plied his trade for 4 games at Barnsley back in 2014.

Most famous Canvey Islander is probably Peter Taylor, ex Palace and Spurs player who managed England for a game and was responsible for making Posh Spice's husband captain of the national team. I think he played against us in an eventful night match back in the mid-70s for Palace under Malcolm Allison, the one where it was 0-0 at half time but we went on to win 4-1 with 3 Palace players sent off in the 2nd half. A certain MM moderator who won't be named left that game just after half time and missed all the action because he was cold