FA Cup weekend coming up and before we
all getting overwhelmed by the chances of an upset, let's not forget
the Trophy and the Vase, both of which are well on their to Wembley.
The Trophy is at semi-final stage and
last night Wrexham and the other “X” team FC Halifax played their
replay and the Welsh won 1-0 in Yorkshire at the Shay. The winners
play Torquay on the 21st February at home first and the
following week away.
Bath City won their replayed
quarter-final 2-1 at home against Dover and so in the other
semi-final Bath will play North Ferriby United. Dates are the same as
above.
Semi-final winners will receive
£16,000.
North Ferriby Utd was formed as a
village club in 1934. Located neat Hull they originally took part in the East
Riding Church League. After the war the club joined the East riding
Amateur League and eventually played in FA Amateur Cup rounds. By the
1970s the club was elected to the Yorkshire League and won the County
League Cup, beating Lincoln United.
By the 1980s they reached their
best FA Cup rounds and in the FA Vase, a losing semi-final. By 1996-7
the club reached the FA Vase final losing to Whitby Town 3-0.
In 2001-2
,with improved ground facilities they were playing in the Northern
Premier having been runners-up in the North-East Counties League.
They won promotion to the Northern Premier in 2004-5, with a
Championship win in 2013, with the following season success in the
Conference North.
Let's hope some of that TV money gets
sieved down to the “Grassroots” levels, to North Ferriby and
beyond.
In the Vase the draw is at the
quarter-final stage with Step 5 teams mainly-St Austell from Step 6.
St Austell (South-west Peninsular
League 6) v Ascot United (Hellenic 5)
Highworth (Hellenic 5) v Tadcaster
(North-east Counties 5)
Holbeach Utd from Lincolnshire (United
Counties League 5 ) or Erith and Belvedere (Southern Counties East 5)
v North Shields (Northern League One 5)
Shaw Lane Aquaforce (North-east
Counties 5) v Dunston UTS (Northern League One 5) or Glossop NE
(North-west Counties 5).
Games to be played 28th February, £4500 prize money.
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