When Was The Last Time Sussex Had Two Teams in the Fifth Round of the FA Cup?
With Crawley beating Hull at the KC Stadium and Brighton beating Newcastle at home by the same score, it means that Sussex has two teams in the fifth round of the FA Cup for the first time. Brighton of course did make the 1983 Cup Final.
I do suspect that the draw might be fixed so that they play each other, as who would fancy a trip to the Deep South.
It’s actually quite a small list of counties that have two League teams outside of the obvious, like Greater London, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne and Wear and a few others, who have two clubs anyway. I can find Bristol, Derbyshire, Devon, Essex and Hampshire. And of course Sussex.
The Anonymous Widower 
I was at the 1983 final and the famous ‘and Smith must score’ miss.
Thankfully I didn’t go to the replay to see them get stuffed.
Comment by Marc | January 29, 2012 |