2020-1 FA CUP EARLY DAYS

Park View FC has to be next in the Blog because they come from Tottenham and play in the Spartan South Midlands League Div 1. They are due to play Hashtag United in the Extra Preliminary Qualifying Round of the FA Cup, hosting them at the New River Stadium, Wood Green. The club is a member of the Middlesex FA and is a member of the Ghana Football Society, but supports a mixed diversity of members. The motto: "Gye Nyame" means "Fear nothing except God".

He is the God of the Akan people and is omnipotent and knows all and sees all.

The first FA Extra Preliminary Round tie is to be played on August 31st 2020 at Woodford Town FC v London Colney FC at 7.45pm. The rest of the round play on September 1st.

The Preliminary Round is on September 12th and the Qualifying Rounds continue on Tuesday Sept 22nd, October 3rd,  Tuesday October 13th (midweek) and then the 24th.

The First Rd Proper is on November 7th, next rounds follow on the 28th November, 9th January, 23rd Jan and the 5th Rd is on Wednesday 10th February, another midweek round Quarters on March 20th. 

Semi-finals April 17th; the Final 15th May.

366 clubs start off the journey to Wembley and there are 20 debut clubs including:

Alfold FC and Billingshurst FC (founded in 1891), 

both I would call "my local village clubs" that were a stone's throw of my home village in West Sussex. What progress these clubs have made to be high enough up the pyramid to qualify for the honour of playing in the FA Cup. I would love to see them play Penistone Church or Shelley FC, local now to me. There will have to be a few victories en route for that to happen.

Bovey Tracy and Helston Athletic FC qualify and will interest a reader of mine and Troy Deeney's original club, Chelmsley Town, near Solihull, will be in Troy's heart no doubt.

Hashtag United, founded in 2016 playing in the Essex Senior League, are there also; the club formed by You Tuber Spencer Owen when he was at Reading University, (they are Step 10 in the Eastern Counties League D1 South)....see previous blogs.

What about New Salamis FC, who won the FA Sunday Cup in 2016, a mixture of Greek Cypriots from North-east London.

and then  there is Leicester Nivarna v Oadby Town. a local derby for another reader in the East Midlands (or Switzerland).

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