Nantwich Town

[bigroof]

Someone at the game on Saturday mentioned that both teams have never meet in a competitive game. I find this hard to belive but hopefully will get the answer from knowledgeable fans on here.

Wouldn't say knowledgeable, but Marco Crisp's book "Match By Match" shows the two clubs met in the various Cheshire cups a few times before the 1WW. It doesn't detail minor round games since then, so it's possible there have been other meetings, but I don't recall any myself since starting to follow Crewe from the early 80's. Pretty sure they've never met in the FA Cup, and their first teams have never played in the same league.
Marco's book points out an interesting tale of the County cup meetings in 1915: Crewe were the home team, and leading Nantwich 2-1 during extra time, when some Nantwich fans invaded the pitch. The referee abandoned the game. Nantwich won the re-arranged game.

[bigroof]

Wouldn't say knowledgeable, but Marco Crisp's book "Match By Match" shows the two clubs met in the various Cheshire cups a few times before the 1WW. It doesn't detail minor round games since then, so it's possible there have been other meetings, but I don't recall any myself since starting to follow Crewe from the early 80's. Pretty sure they've never met in the FA Cup, and their first teams have never played in the same league.
Marco's book points out an interesting tale of the County cup meetings in 1915: Crewe were the home team, and leading Nantwich 2-1 during extra time, when some Nantwich fans invaded the pitch. The referee abandoned the game. Nantwich won the re-arranged game.

More useless knowledge from me - Crewe Alexandra beat Nantwich 5-1, in Qualifying Round Five of the FA Cup in 1900/01! I guess, for those interested, in those early days of football, it was Nantwich, as opposed to Nantwich Town; I've no idea if this was simply a name-change somewhere along the line, or a completely different club.

[out0lunch]

Interesting piece here as regards the past history of the fixture

http://www.crewechronicle.co.uk/spor...-town-12845174

[Furberstreet]

Nice to see the U23s win some silverware last night. Hard to believe we had not won the Cheshire Senior Cup since 2003.

[out0lunch]

Well done to Jamesdad who nearly got the gate spot on

[jamesdad]

It was a good night for football and I was very impressed with Nantwich Town and the football they played and wish them all the best for promotion and playing the way they did I am sure they will get it. Also good to see Steve Jones still performing at a high standard .

[out0lunch]

Video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVMbWIqKCec

[ShropshireAlex]

Nice to see the U23s win some silverware last night. Hard to believe we had not won the Cheshire Senior Cup since 2003.

But that's only because of the years when the League Teams (until we became the only one ) played each other in the Cheshire Premier Cup, and non-League in the Senior Cup. They only came back together a year or two ago.

[Furberstreet]

Thank you. I had wondered looking at the list of winners since 1979 on Wikipedia. Only Stockport and Tranmere appeared as recent finalists - both after relegation to non-league.

Amazing to think that we are now the only Cheshire football league club. Perhaps Tranmere will return this time?