HISTORY BOYS: Ex-Alvechurch midfielder Derrick Davies with the FA Cup
PICS: The FA
ELEVEN HOURS, six matches, five different grounds, and one entry in the Guinness Book of Records – Alvechurch and Oxford City will forever have their place in FA Cup folklore.
Before the introduction of penalty shoot-outs, cup ties were only settled through replays and so the slug-fest between the two Non-League sides battling for a place in the FA Cup first round proper went on. And on. And on. They played each other six times over 17 days before, finally, Alvechurch’s Bobby Hope squeezed in a...
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