Massive gateshead following that day, although jamie is correct about blyth turning out for the fa cup, I personally think the sunday works in our favour, let's hope the good 200 that went to barwell and more get up to blyth
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g1cCsz3-vMY
"Non leagues most famous cup fighters " !!! my considerable feckin arse
Why do we never seem to get the recognition of being one of the most famous non league cup fighters? I've noticed its always the Herefords, Suttons and Blyth Spartans of this world who get acknowledged on, for instance, the BBC.
To be fair, we have had plenty of recognition about this over the years. Even on that North West Tonight feature on Monday, our giant killing record was referred to.
Since the whole TV coverage of the FA Cup was changed in the late 80s, we've had the following:
Proper BBC highlights for Halifax, Chester, Wigan (also a full highlights programme on Sky), Darlington and Millwall
Live satellite coverage for Huddersfield and Burton.
We also would have had the Crewe game in 1995 shown on Match of the Day had it not been rescheduled because of Neil Lennon's international call up.
I think that is good going. Given that in only one of those seasons we actually got to the third round, I would like to know if another non-league club has had as much consistent TV coverage as us in the FA Cup over that time. I daresay one of the reasons we were picked for a lot of those games was because of our past reputation.
Fair point about Birmingham but then it isn't recorded for posterity in the way that Hereford and Sutton was. As for Blyth, they do have a good reputation to be fair. I agree with the poster about Telford. They had a tremendous run in the mid 80s but that seems to be completely forgotten.
I don't think we've been ignored at all. If the media recognition hasn't been there, how did we get all that FA Cup footage for the DVD a few years back?