WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

 

Southern League club, Wimbledon FC, on February 10th 1975, played a "home" FA Cup 4th Rd Replay at Selhurst Park (Crystal Palace FC) against League Champions, Leeds United, attracting over 45,000 in the stadium. Having drawn away at Elland Road, 0-0, on January 25th, the "minnows" were beaten by the only goal of the game, a deflected shot, leaving the score 0-1. 

Prior to this, the Wombles had started their campaign thus:
In the First Qualifying Rd-

Bracknell Town (Berkshire), away win 1-3
Maidenhead Utd (Berks) in QRd 2 at home win 4-0
Wokingham Town (Berks) in QRd 3 at home win 2-0
Guildford and Dorking Utd (Surrey) in QRd 4 away win 0-3

THEN
Bath City (Somerset) 1-0 win at home on November 23rd in the 1st Rd Proper.
Kettering Town (Northamptonshire) 2-0 win at home on December 14th in the 2nd Rd. 

Wimbledon won against Burnley away 0-1 in the 3rd Round on January 4th. On the same weekend,

Leeds had beaten Cardiff City at home 4-1 in Rd3, their first Cup tie of the season.

AND THEN

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

and then met Ipswich Town in Rd 6; which went like this:-

at Portman Rd 0-0, replay at Elland Rd 1-1 aet.
then at a neutral Filbert Street, 0-0 aet
and finally also at Filbert St 2-3 to Ipswich aet.

Ipswich lost 1-2 to West Ham in the semi-final replay after a 0-0 draw.
West Ham (13th in Div One) won the Cup Final beating Fulham (9th in Div Two) 2-0 at Wembley on May 3rd. Both goals came from the "Rochdale whippet", Alan Taylor (below). He scored two in the quarter-final against Arsenal (0-2) and two in the semi against Ipswich.

In the "friendly" final, legendary Alec Stock (he's been mentioned before recently) managed Fulham and legendary, Ron Greenwood for West Ham. Neither trainer (medic man) had to leave his bench, the game was free flowing and graced by legendary, Bobby Moore and Alan Mullery, both nearing the endof their careers.

Other giant killers that year? 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, after Bishops Stortford (in R1), then Colchester (Rd2), to Brighton & HA 0-1 in the 3rd Rd, eventually losing to Leicester City (Rd4). The "Leatherhead Lip", Chris Kelly made a name for himself scoring the winner at the Goldstone Ground (below the 65th minute winner) and in the next round he scored a "leader" at Leicester, helping the Isthmian League side to a 2-0 lead. The Foxes bounced back to win 3-2.