However manager Brian Pritchard will take note that the Northern League outfit, who play at a lower level than his team, also defeated a side ranked two tiers above them – Evo-Stik NPL Premier Division club Ashton United – on Saturday. Albion last won four successive matches in the FA Cup in 1990, a sequence that was rewarded with a televised home tie against Bolton Wanderers in the first round".
On the other hand, NL Daily reports that "Danny Johnson, manager of Ashton United, was disgusted with his team’s performance against Spennymoor Town in the FA Cup at the weekend, and described it as ‘the worst ever display’ from one of his teams. Johnson couldn’t think of a single positive to take from the game and accepted that on the day Spennymoor were worthy winners and wished them all the very best for the next round.
He said, ‘The Spennymoor supporters created a great occasion for their team, they were magnificent from the first to final whistle. Their team rose to the occasion and although I felt they were there for the taking we just weren’t up to the challenge. Yet again we gave away a ridiculous early goal but this time we couldn’t get up the mountain we set ourselves… I can’t put my finger on why we are so poor in the FA Cup, it’s frustrating me to death and something that hurts me an awful lot, to manage a team in the first round of the FA Cup would be unbelievable. Our performance was the worst I have ever witnessed as a football manager, from one to eleven we were dreadful, disgusting! That takes nothing away from Spennymoor but I need to focus on my team and I can’t find words to describe what I witnessed yesterday’".
Good Morning Wittoners, Firstly congratulations on your win at Altrincham in the last round, This tie should be very good and i hope both sets of fans can get the crowd rocking, I don’t know what kind of crowd your going to expect for the game next weekend but we should have 150 down from the North-East and as you’ve seen on other posts we make a hell of alot of noise!
I’ve been very fortunate to visit your ground on a number of occasions in the old Unibond days when were Spennymoor United and also the last time i was there we played Northwich and got beat 3-1 in the 4th Qualifying round 8 years ago and its a cracking set up.
We’re having a good run in the fa cup although as double defending league champions everyone wants to beat us in the league and we seem to be saving our best performances for the cup, divided opinion but i love the cup competitions, you don’t get any prestige for winning the league and when you come to places like this its fantastic.
So far we havn’t conceded a goal in the fa cup, we’ve won 1-0, 1-0, 3-0 and 0-3 so far which is fantastic really but im no illusions that record will have to go at some point but hopefully not next saturday.
How many fans are you expecting for the game? realistically you should get 500 i would of thought. Will there be segregation?
Welcome to the forum Spenny. We too have done well in the cup this year not conceeding a goal yet either, in fact we haven’t conceeded a goal in any of the 3 cups we’ve played in so far, scoring 17 goals along the way.
It should be a good game but with neither side having yet conceded it has 0-0 written all over it! probably finish 4-4.
