Sunday, 10 February 2019

MINNOWS WOMBLING FREE

February 10th was a big day for Wimbledon FC in 1975 when the Southern League club met Leeds United in the FA Cup Round 4 at Selhurst Park, attracting a crowd of over 45,000.
This replay against the League Champions of England ended in a 0-1 defeat, a deflected goal.
The first tie was a 0-0 draw at Elland Road.

Prior to this, the Wombles had started their campaign thus:
Bracknell Town in the First Qualifying Rd away win 1-3
Maidenhead Utd in QRd2 at home win 4-0
Wokingham Town in QRd3 at home win 2-0
Guildford and Dorking Utd in QRd4 away win 0-3
Bath City 1-0 win at home on November 23rd in the 1st Rd Proper.
Kettering Town 2-0 win at home on December 14th in the 2nd Rd. 
Burnley away 0-1 win in the 3rd Round on January 4th.

Leeds United went on to beat Derby County 1-0 away in Rd 5

and then met Ipswich Town in Rd6; it went like this:-
at Portman Rd 0-0, replay at Elland Rd 1-1 aet.
then at a neutral ground 0-0 aet
and finally at a neutral ground 2-3 to Ipswich aet.
Ipswich lost 1-2 to West Ham in the semi-final replay after a 0-0 draw,
West Ham won the final beating Fulham 2-0 at Wembley.

Leeds had beaten Cardiff City 4-1 in Rd3

Giant killers? Well Walsall had beaten Manchester Utd 3-2 aet at home after drawing 0-0 at Old Trafford in Rd 3.
Carlisle Utd reached Rd6 losing to Fulham 0-1
York City took Arsenal to a replay in Rd3 having drawn at Highbury and
Leatherhead were knocking big boys over too (Brighton), eventually losing to Leicester City

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