I am looking at the seven FA Vase results from yesterday. Clubs from Steps 5-7 are invited.
In addition Southall play Exmouth this afternoon at 3pm.
Exciting? Eight winners will pocket £2500 in this 5th Round.
In the first qualifying round, I saw local side Penistone Church beat Winterton Rangers 5-1 and that was one of 194 ties. Winners earned £600.
Having won the next tie 3-2 by scoring in the final minutes from 1-2 down (I had left early assuming the writing was on the wall), PCFC lost to Sherwood Colliery from Nottingham. Shame.
The Colliery team then lost to Westfields from Hereford, they lost to Coleshill Town from Warwickshire, who then beat Gorleston of Norfolk and then Crowborough Athletic (6-3) from Sussex in the 5th Round proper. Coleshill fans look forward to the draw with anticipation.
Winners were rewarded with £1875 and losers £625.
The remaining Vase teams are;
Bromsgrove Sporting, Cleethorpes Town, Sporting Khasa, Buckland Athletic, Newport Pagnell, South Shields. None have been in a Vase final before.
South Shields survived a journey to Team Solent winning 2-5 and Sunderland RCA went to Newport Pagnell gaining no rewards.
The Vase, introduced by the FA when amateurism evaporated in 1974, was first won by Hoddesdon Town in 1975 who beat Surrey's Epsom and Ewell at Wembley in front of a 9,000 crowd. The present holders are Morpeth Town from Northumberland who beat Hereford.
It's a great competition, just as "local" as the old FA Amateur Cup was. 6th Round draw on Monday, to be played on February 18th. The final is on May 21st at the home of football when the FA Trophy final is also played on Non-League Finals Day.
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