FA VASE PREVIEW
By Phil Annets

RETURN? North Shields are on the Vase trail again

THE last eight clubs in this season’s FA Vase are now just two wins from Wembley and of the octet of clubs remaining only North Shields and Southall FC have ever made that journey in the competition before.
North Shields went on to lift the FA Vase the only other time the Robins appeared in the quarter-finals, defeating Glossop North End 2-1 after extra time in 2015. Along with Whitchurch Alport and Wythenshawe Town, the Northern League club began this season’s campaign in the earliest first qualifying roun...