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Post by tenacres on Nov 8, 2020 21:44:27 GMT
All draws I think:
Bolton (lost replay) Swindon (won reply) Crewe (lost reply) MK Dons (lost on pens)
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Post by tenacres on Nov 8, 2020 21:49:01 GMT
Certainly a resilient performance with a lot of defending, I would say McDonnell our MOM. Shame we couldn't make our way through the lottery of pens.
We played well.
another interesting stat mentioned by Mr Wilding was that we had won all 1st round ties since we have been in the national league, this was out first loss.
One more stat: We are close to 10 months unbeaten at the silverlake.
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Post by unknownquantity on Nov 10, 2020 1:00:15 GMT
The only previous loss in the first round proper was against Barrow in 2009/10.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2020 7:34:23 GMT
Was Sunday the first time we have hosted former FA Cup winners in a competitive game?.....
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Post by Bruce Forbes on Nov 10, 2020 9:13:06 GMT
Tell that to a Wimbledon fan!
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Post by nobadspitfire on Nov 10, 2020 12:05:58 GMT
Was Sunday the first time we have hosted former FA Cup winners in a competitive game?..... Surprised at that question, or were you just stirring? Bolton Wanderers won it 3 times a hundred years or so ago.
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Post by back4more on Nov 10, 2020 15:11:01 GMT
Was Sunday the first time we have hosted former FA Cup winners in a competitive game?..... It's of at least some credit to MK Dons that they don't lay claim to any of the honours won by Wimbledon FC from whose "ashes" they say they were "formed". www.mkdons.com/club/history/
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2020 15:18:57 GMT
Hadn't thought of Bolton W as previous holders, cheers.
Agree MK Dons aren't Wimbledon in any form, legally they are the continuation though.
In terms of its footballing assets and place in the English football league structure, Milton Keynes Dons F.C. is the continuation of Wimbledon F.C., which was formed in south London in 1889 and relocated to Milton Keynes in 2003. The club was brought out of administration in 2004 as a new company, Milton Keynes Dons Ltd, which purchased the assets of The Wimbledon Football Club Ltd and received the team's place in Football League One.[1] The Wimbledon Football Club Ltd legally endured until 2009.[2] Since 2006 Milton Keynes Dons has officially considered itself a new club, formed in 2004—it no longer claims any history before then, despite retaining Wimbledon F.C.'s "Dons" nickname.[3]
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Post by bandit on Nov 10, 2020 15:20:31 GMT
Can anybody let us know who decided those 5 players would take the penalties! I wonder why GREENER and our corner and free kick taker PAYNE were absent from penalty list .
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Post by hantslondoner on Nov 10, 2020 15:26:45 GMT
Was Sunday the first time we have hosted former FA Cup winners in a competitive game?..... Surprised at that question, or were you just stirring? Bolton Wanderers won it 3 times a hundred years or so ago. Last time they won it was in 1958. Another team we've played is Notts County - they won the FA Cup in 1893-94. And if you believe AFC Wimbledon are the logical follow-on from Wimbledon (as I do), then we played them in the NLS in 2008/09. Can't quite count Saints - only played their U23 and B teams ;-)
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Post by unknownquantity on Nov 10, 2020 19:55:21 GMT
I think that it would have been better if in the original question F A Cup tie replaced competitive game with F A Cup tie or something similar. If playing against a B team does not count as being competitive, then how about F A Cup or league cup ties in which Premier Division clubs play virtually a B team? Over the years that Southampton have played in the Hampshire Senior Cups I expect the strength of their teams has varied and I believe that they once fielded pretty well a full first team against Farnborough and lost. As for ourselves in Wessex League days I think we regarded every Hampshire Senior Cup as competitive and less so now.
I believe Bolton won the F A Cup three times in the 1920's and once in 1958. I would say that three of their F A Cup final appearances stick out in footballing history 1923 (believe to be first match played at Wembley), 1953 (Matthews final) and 1958 (against a Manchester United team that had lost several players in the Munich air disaster a few months earlier).
I also think we played AFC Wimbledon in the F A Trophy in 2006 when we also lost on penalties. Interesting though that both MK Dons and AFC Wimbledon seem to regard themselves as being founded in the 21st century.
I also seem to remember that when he was here Paul Doswell was not very keen on a pre-season friendly with MK Dons.
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Post by back4more on Nov 11, 2020 0:27:29 GMT
Brilliant bit of modern history there Callum and very enlightening, Thanks. I have a childhood memory of a Radio Times mag under the telly in our back room which had pics on the cover of Nat Lofthouse and Billy Wright whose teams were scheduled to face each other in the then pre-eminent FA Cup. I have in later years embossed that memory with the idea it was part of a cup final build up but now realise it might have been earlier in the competition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GevFgcqo8bo
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Post by back4more on Nov 11, 2020 0:34:11 GMT
PS. I think the Stevens who scored Bolton's first goal might have been the Dennis Stevens who later signed for Everton and was an unsung hero in Everton's 62/63 league winning team.
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Post by unknownquantity on Nov 11, 2020 19:30:31 GMT
I believe Dennis Stevens played for both Bolton and Everton and was the cousin of Duncan Edwards, so if Edwards had survived the Munich air disaster he could have been playing against his cousin in the final as he had in a league game a few weeks before the crash.
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Post by unknownquantity on Nov 14, 2020 19:10:37 GMT
Interesting to note that today MK Dons beat Sunderland away from home.
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