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Online Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air

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Re: FA Cup 3rd Round Draw - Monday 3rd Dec 7:30pm
« Reply #15 on: December 02, 2018, 08:07:32 PM »
Shortest team name of an FA Cup winner.

They probably are, but its not the answer.

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Re: FA Cup 3rd Round Draw - Monday 3rd Dec 7:30pm
« Reply #16 on: December 02, 2018, 08:08:30 PM »
Anyone but Blackburn or ManUre...life's too short for repeats. We'd probably beat either, mind.

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Re: FA Cup 3rd Round Draw - Monday 3rd Dec 7:30pm
« Reply #17 on: December 02, 2018, 08:08:55 PM »
Only FA Cup winning team who has a name which is a homophone of a small fruit.

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Re: FA Cup 3rd Round Draw - Monday 3rd Dec 7:30pm
« Reply #18 on: December 02, 2018, 08:09:17 PM »
It'll be Brentford.

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Re: FA Cup 3rd Round Draw - Monday 3rd Dec 7:30pm
« Reply #19 on: December 02, 2018, 08:13:35 PM »
Only FA Cup winning team who has a name which is a homophone of a small fruit.

Unfortunately for that answer, the people who live there rhyme it with 'hurry'.

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Re: FA Cup 3rd Round Draw - Monday 3rd Dec 7:30pm
« Reply #20 on: December 02, 2018, 08:17:31 PM »
Only team to win it without conceding a goal all tournament?

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Re: FA Cup 3rd Round Draw - Monday 3rd Dec 7:30pm
« Reply #21 on: December 02, 2018, 08:20:04 PM »
Only FA Cup-winning team who have a name which rhymes with "hurry" in the local dialect.

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Re: FA Cup 3rd Round Draw - Monday 3rd Dec 7:30pm
« Reply #22 on: December 02, 2018, 08:22:16 PM »
Only team to win it without conceding a goal all tournament?

Correct !

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Re: FA Cup 3rd Round Draw - Monday 3rd Dec 7:30pm
« Reply #23 on: December 02, 2018, 08:30:23 PM »
Apart from Preston, in 1889.

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Re: FA Cup 3rd Round Draw - Monday 3rd Dec 7:30pm
« Reply #24 on: December 02, 2018, 08:31:51 PM »
Only team to win it without conceding a goal all tournament?

Correct !

Pure guess but a quick search since shows they beat us in the semis.

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Re: FA Cup 3rd Round Draw - Monday 3rd Dec 7:30pm
« Reply #25 on: December 02, 2018, 08:32:59 PM »
Preston won the cup without conceding a goal and the league without losing a match. In the same season.

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Re: FA Cup 3rd Round Draw - Monday 3rd Dec 7:30pm
« Reply #26 on: December 02, 2018, 08:34:25 PM »
Preston won the cup without conceding a goal and the league without losing a match. In the same season.

And their gloryhunting plastic fans never shut up about it.*

*I have never met a Preston fan.

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Re: FA Cup 3rd Round Draw - Monday 3rd Dec 7:30pm
« Reply #27 on: December 02, 2018, 08:36:33 PM »
Apart from Preston, in 1889.

Yes. So let that be a lesson to you all. Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

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Re: FA Cup 3rd Round Draw - Monday 3rd Dec 7:30pm
« Reply #28 on: December 02, 2018, 09:00:50 PM »
Do season ticket holders get free entry if we’re at home?

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Re: FA Cup 3rd Round Draw - Monday 3rd Dec 7:30pm
« Reply #29 on: December 02, 2018, 09:03:15 PM »
So who are the only team to win it and never played in it since?

 


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