YOU HAVE TO HAND IT TO THE GLOVERS.

Huish Park is the venue and Manchester United the opponents. Yeovil Town (The Glovers-guess why?) from League Two, are ready for Jose and his boys, at a ground where there have been some memorable Cup moments.

I saw Yeovil Town in a Third Rd Cup tie in 1971 at their "original" ground Huish, which had an 8 feet gradient from side to side. The Glovers lost 0-3 to Arsenal on January 6th 1971. 14,500 packed in to the stadium to witness a proper Arsenal side take Yeovil apart gently. Radford scored 2 and Kennedy 1, Wilson was in goal and so on. NO PRISONERS!
The sloping pitch, the collapsing stand roof, as lads climbed on to it to get a view, didn't detract from the enjoyment of the game.
The FA Cup throws up many great occasions and indeed, Arsenal went on to win the final beating Liverpool 2-1 aet.

Yeovil joined the competition in the 4th Qualifying Round and beat Poole Town away (regional!) 1-2 , Aveley at home 1-0, Bournemouth 0-1 (away).

Arsenal went to the "new" Huish Park again (capacity about 10,000), this time built on an old army camp, in 1993 (Jan 2nd) where they beat Yeovil 3-1. And guess what?? the Gunners won the Cup Final again, beating Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 aet after a 1-1 draw also with extra time. I took my daughter to the first game at Wembley but didn't make the replay.

In 1993 Yeovil joined in the 4th Qual Rd again beating Crawley away 1-2. They then beat Torquay in Rd One 5-2 at theirs, Hereford Utd 1-2 away after a 0-0 draw at Huish Park.

Yeovil was founded in 1890 as Yeovil Casuals and worked through the pyramid, joining the Football League in 2003.

In 1948-9 the club had a great cup run, beating Romford, Weymouth and Bury, Sunderland 2-1 aet in Rd 4 in front of 17,000 at their home ground. They then met Manchester United in Round 5 at Maine Road (Old Trafford was being repaired after a War time bomb). 81,000 watched the game, won by United of course, 8-0. United lost to Wolves, the eventual cup winners, in the semi-final.