MAKING HEY: Jody Brown’s Heybridge Swifts played no fewer than 20 cup games before mid-January

JODY BROWN admitted Heybridge Swifts’ NGA-winning cup run did affect their promotion bid – but he wouldn’t have changed it for the world!
The Essex club were the lowestranked team left in both the FA Cup and FA Trophy and played no fewer than 20 cup matches by mid-January, taking a number of higher-ranked scalps along the way.
But the gruelling schedule eventually took its toll as the Swifts’ promotion bid from Bostik North faltered amid the culmination of po...