50 years ago it was the 87th season of the FA Cup, the World's oldest cup competition (1872). Even the Charterhouse School inter-house cup did not begin until 1874!
The new 2017-8 football season soon begins and these cup ties will be played from the 5th August (Extra Preliminary Round) with the First Round Proper on Saturday 4th November when the Football League clubs join in.
On the 9th December 1967 there were a number of notable non-League clubs pitting their wits against league clubs;
Walthamstowe Avenue (best Kidderminster Harriers), Arnold, Nottinghamshire (lost to Bristol Rovers), Tow Law (thumped Mansfield Town 5-1), Falmouth Town (beaten by Peterborough Utd), Guildford City (drew and then beat Brentford in replay) and Ryhope Colliery Welfare from Sunderland (lost to Workington Town 0-1 who were a league team then) to name a few.
Tow Law then drew with Shrewsbury 1-1 and then lost 6-2 in the 2nd Round. Guildford City lost to Newport County.
The 2017-8 Third Round is on Saturday 6th January by which time the big boys (PL and Championship) will be putting their necks on the block, challenged by those "lesser" teams that have survived.
In the 1967-8 Cup Final, Jeff Astle, the legend of West Bromwich Albion, who was scoring regularly, added to his total season goals in each cup round and especially in the semi-final and final. He put two past Liverpool in the replayed 6th Round and another against Birmingham City in the semi-final.
His winning goal at Wembley against Everton was scored in extra time at 93 minutes. WBA won 1-0. Not a classic! Though Bob might not agree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i77ahr3L4q0
12 months earlier Albion had been beaten by QPR (a Third Divsion side at the time) in the first League Cup Final to be played at Wembley.
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