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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: bumble on December 03, 2012, 11:48:57 AM

Title: NL knowledge help....
Post by: bumble on December 03, 2012, 11:48:57 AM

Can anybody list due to their incredible knowledge or point to a website that will tell me the following....

a) Most FA CUP scalps by non-league teams ie. say the top 5/6

I think  Yeovil and ourselves are top two but, who are the 4/5 next best Giant Killers?

Title: Re: NL knowledge help....
Post by: Get back in yer box! on December 03, 2012, 01:28:29 PM

Try     http://www.freewebs.com/captainbeecher/
seems quite useful... :)

Title: Re: NL knowledge help....
Post by: anglo alty on December 03, 2012, 06:47:47 PM

Telford Utd must be one, unfortunatley Mac would be quite high also with wins against Stockport Rotherham Swindon and Chesterfield albeit on pens to name a few

Title: Re: NL knowledge help....
Post by: Baldrick on December 04, 2012, 05:23:02 PM

Quote from: Get back in yer box! on December 03, 2012, 01:28:29 PM

Try     http://www.freewebs.com/captainbeecher/
seems quite useful... :)

Strangely that site has no mention of Yeovil. Their win against Sunderland is generally regarded as the biggest upset ever.

Title: Re: NL knowledge help....
Post by: RocketDan on December 04, 2012, 06:40:57 PM

Bit of an obscure answer, but I'd be surprised if Tottenham Hotspur weren't on the list.

Won the FA cup in 1901 but didn't join the football league until 1908, reckon they must have had at least 10 wins over league opposition between their formation and 1908.

Title: Re: NL knowledge help....
Post by: Jimmy on December 04, 2012, 06:43:11 PM

In my opinion bottom of the football leauge Wrexham beating champions arsenal may well be biggest shock

Title: Re: NL knowledge help....
Post by: Robin Hood Robin on December 04, 2012, 07:06:41 PM

I researched this about 10 years ago. The top four of all time were, and I cannot remember the order other than Yeovil were top
Yeovil
Alty
Tottenham
Southampton

Title: Re: NL knowledge help....
Post by: bighairedmike on December 04, 2012, 07:14:27 PM

Are Wigan up there by any chance?

Title: Re: NL knowledge help....
Post by: Nasha on December 04, 2012, 09:47:26 PM

I just flipped through an old stat book I got for Christmas 1995 (Ian St John), and the top 4 were, as of end of 94/95;

Alty 16
Yeovil 14
Telford 11
Enfield 10

Out of other sides mentioned, Wigan have 9, Macc weren't on the list (though Northwich are with 5, so add a couple more to that). Hereford have 8 and Kettering 7.

So I would say top 4 is Yeovil, us, Telford and Hereford.