BBC's Football Focus have just offered a lovely obituary for Gordon Sparks (1961-2022) who died at young age of 61.
They mentioned he was a devoted Plymouth fanatic.
FGR's away match at South Shields reminded me of my regular trips to Wembley to watch FA Amateur Cup. There always seemed to be a Geordie team in Final and one of the last finals I watched was North Shields beating current league team Sutton United.
Bloody hell, those teams in North East have...
Newcastle- yes but it is small consolation to be 2nd favourites to win against lowly opposition as South Shields.
However Tyneside is a football hotbed and the crowd could be better than at TNL.
Although they lost match on Monday against Charlton, Portsmouth fans must be confident of a good result against visitors FGR to Fratton Park on Saturday.
Portsmouth manager Danny Cowley has an exceptionally good record v FGR: – when manager of Lincoln City he won every match against the...
Yet another away fixture in FA Cup and yet another possible/probable loss to lower league opposition.
Seems the FA Cup gods don't like FGR.
Chairman Dale Vince must be tearing his hair out: - he desperately wants a decent FA Cup run but has not had one since taking over the club five (or so)...
Without checking the records I suspect that FGR have the worst FA Cup record of all in this division and possibly the entire league.
Last season was typical example: FGR top of League 2 table and lose to National League South mid-table St Albans.
What is interesting is that Charlton & Peterboro have two consecutive home games during this period while FGR & Bristol R have two away games.
FGR & Bristol R would I'm sure have preferred it the other way around, in the optimistic hope of securing points towards League 1 survival: - ie success...