Classic FA Cup shocks - from Wimbledon to Wrexham

Last updated at 11:29 16 May 2008


It's been a season 十分な of shocks in this season's FA Cup, with only one 最高の,を越す-flight team reaching the last four.

And, ahead of Saturday's final between Portsmouth and Cardiff, we look at some of the greatest upsets in the history of the 競争.

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Wimbledon 1088

Crazy ギャング(団): Wimbledon celebrate their amazing FA Cup 勝利 over Liverpool

LIVERPOOL 1 BARNSLEY 2 (2008)

Barnsley 船長/主将 Brian Howard's 傷害-time strike sent Liverpool 衝突,墜落ing out

of the FA Cup as the Tykes earned a 4半期/4分の1-final place with a 素晴らしい upset at

Anfield.

MANCHESTER UTD 0 EXETER 0 (2005)

Former Old Trafford 訓練生 Andy Taylor squandered two chances that would have

given the 全国的な 会議/協議会 味方する an astonishing victory.

部隊d boss Sir Alex Ferguson took time out to 申し込む/申し出 his 管理の 相当するもの Alex

Inglethorpe, who had only just celebrated his 33rd birthday, his congratulations

at the final whistle.

"I am incredibly proud of the team, not just for the way we played but the way we have 行為/行うd ourselves throughout the build-up," said Inglethorpe. 部隊d won the replay 2-0.

SUTTON 2 COVENTRY 1 (1989)

Coventry arrived in Surrey just 18 months after winning the 1987 FA Cup and

were riding high in the 最高の,を越す flight.

It appeared to be a 事例/患者 of 'no contest' against the 非,不,無-league team. But they were left stunned as Tony Rains and Matthew Hanlan became the goalscoring heroes for a team fashioned by English

teacher Barrie Williams. Both Rains and Hanlan became instant celebrities, each

appearing on Terry Wogan's 雑談(する) show the に引き続いて Monday.

WREXHAM 2 ARSENAL 1 (1992)

The Gunners were the 統治するing league 支持する/優勝者s, Wrexham were 底(に届く) of the old

fourth 分割.

兵器庫 had taken the lead through Alan Smith but with 10

minutes to go 37-year-old Mickey Thomas 抑えるのをやめるd a 25-yard 解放する/自由な-kick past David

船員 for the equaliser.

The Welsh 味方する could sense an upset and Steve Watkin

popped up late on to 得点する/非難する/20 the 勝利者 and send their illustrious 対抗者s

衝突,墜落ing out.

HEREFORD 2 NEWCASTLE 1 (1972)

The Southern League 味方する had earned a glorious 2-2 draw at St James' Park in

February 1972 and were given little chance of emulating that feat in the replay.

It was all going to 計画(する) when Newcastle took the lead in a game which had been

絶えず 延期するd 予定 to bad 天候.

But Hereford grew stronger as the match went on and Ronnie Radford equalised with a 40-yard thunderbolt to take the game into extra-time. Then Ricky George 攻撃する,衝突する the 勝利者.

Wimbledon

LIVERPOOL 0 WIMBLEDON 1 (1988)

Dave Beasant became the first goalkeeper to 解除する the FA Cup after famously

saving a 刑罰,罰則 from striker John Aldridge in the 1988 final. That 証明するd to be

決定的な in a game which was 推定する/予想するd to be no more than a stroll in the park for

Liverpool.

But Wimbledon, true to form, scrapped and 戦う/戦いd for every ball with

Lawrie Sanchez 長,率いるing the 勝利者 に引き続いて a 解放する/自由な-kick from Dennis Wise.

SHREWSBURY 2 EVERTON 1 (2003)

Languishing 近づく the 底(に届く) of the Football League, Shrewsbury turned the form

調書をとる/予約する on its 長,率いる thanks to two goals from Nigel Jemson.

He 粉砕するd home a 38th-minute 解放する/自由な-kick and then, after 代用品,人 Niclas Alexandersson had

leve lled on the hour, ちらりと見ることd an 89th-minute header past Richard Wright to 調印(する)

a famous victory. But that was the only 最高潮の場面 of the season for Shrewsbury

who were relegated to the 全国的な 会議/協議会 in May.

BURNLEY 0 WIMBLEDON 1 (1975)

This game in 1975 示すd Wimbledon's arrival as a team 有能な of 原因(となる)ing a

shock or two because of their feisty 態度.

They had barely started their remarkable 旅行 from the Southern League to the 最高の,を越す flight but were already

making waves.

Micky Mahon stunned Burnley to 得る,とらえる the 勝利者 but the hero was

goalkeeper Dicky Guy, who made a string of superb saves.

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