Sunday 10 March 2019

HAMMERS AND COTTAGERS

February 10th 1975, Southern League, Wimbledon FC, played top team Leeds United in the 4th Round of the FA Cup and held them to a draw 0-0 at Elland Road. They then hired Selhurst Park for the replay and lost 0-1 to a deflected goal.
In their First Round tie the Wombles had beaten Bath City 1-0 at home, then took on Kettering Town in the 2nd and won 2-0 at home. In the Third Round they beat Burnley away 1-0.

As the cup carried on, Leeds beat Derby in the 5th Round, then took four games to lose to Ipswich Town in the 6th.

The eventual cup finalists were West Ham and Fulham.
Fulham had a "Grand National" run to Wembley taking 3 ties to beat Hull, 4 to beat Nottingham Forest, 1 to beat Everton and 1 to beat Carlisle United.

West Ham had fewer obstacles beating Southampton, they took two games to get by Sunderland, 1 to beat QPR, 1 to beat Arsenal and then they met West Ham in the semi-final.

Both semi-finals included a drawn first tie.
Fulham eventually got rid of Birmingham City (1-1 and 1-0) and West Ham beat Ipswich (0-0 and 1-2).
WHU v. Fulham FA Cup Programme
West Ham then met Fulham in the Cup Final winning 2-0.
This is a nice link:
http://theyflysohigh.co.uk/1975-fa-cup-final/4547039275
and a short Film
https://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-iba-1&hsimp=yhs-1&hspart=iba&p=1975+FA+Cup+Final#id=1&vid=3c6a9f99544a109acdf156b1bcbc2655&action=click

John Lacy of Fulham played for London University Football Club against Cambridge University (and others) in the early 1970s and then signed for the Cottagers.

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