What's your favourite Swindon F.A. Cup game ever?

[Boner]

I also enjoyed the 4th round match at Cambridge that season, they'd already beaten us twice in the league (including 2-0 at the County Ground 2 weeks previous) but we stuffed them 3-0 that day. Calderwood with the first (though he was dazed and i don't think he knew much about it) and Shearer with 2 in the second half.

This was a great day out, 4 of us went in some pub asked the landlady if she minded us playing cards for money and was told to "do what the fuck you like"   so we did and got well and truly hammered then watched us unexpectedly beat them!!

[Reg Smeeton]

 One fairly random game I'd like to mention was a 7-0 3rd drubbing of Aldershot at the CG in 82/83 which was our first season in Div 4 so it was a bit shit generally, but it was John Trollope's side of mostly local kids and a few old hands, and we were going ok at the turn of the year, crowd of 7,000+ turned out.

The only time I've seen us score exactly 7...and as far as I can remember the only time I've seen a hat-trick from 2 different players, Andy Rowland and Howard Pritchard.

Burnley away in 4th round....nice football special and a screamer from Pritchard, but we lost 3-1.  The promise of that side fell away with that defeat and a poor run saw JT return to his old job of Youth Team Manager, after his sacking caused by the most disgraceful episode Arkell's mong abuse...

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

Boreham Wood away - A 0-0 draw.

A few to be honest - Everton, Fulham, Burnley away only for the special.

......Has anyone mentioned Carlisle away - Another "special" and a 1-1 draw. We took them back to the CG and beat them 3-0.
I remember my Mate coming out of the ground. We were all streaming out down a muddy bank I recall and my mate slipped and rolled down covered in mud............Memories wonderful.

[The Professor]

I remember the FA Cup tie at home against Merthyr Tydfil in about 1965 or 1966 (can't remember which round but probably Round One or Two. Danny Williams brought in a centre forward that he'd signed at the start of that season from Portsmouth when they disbanded their reserve team, a lad called Keith East.  We promptly won 5-1 and East scored four of them.

Even better the next week as we played Mansfield Town at home in a League 3 game.  I remember one of my mates saying, "Can't see East scoring four today".  He didn't - he scored five in a 6-2 home win!  Nine goals in 2 game - happy memories

[Reg Smeeton]

I remember the FA Cup tie at home against Merthyr Tydfil in about 1965 or 1966 (can't remember which round but probably Round One or Two. Danny Williams brought in a centre forward that he'd signed at the start of that season from Portsmouth when they disbanded their reserve team, a lad called Keith East.  We promptly won 5-1 and East scored four of them.

Even better the next week as we played Mansfield Town at home in a League 3 game.  I remember one of my mates saying, "Can't see East scoring four today".  He didn't - he scored five in a 6-2 home win!  Nine goals in 2 game - happy memories

I remember that....that Town side was the epitome of inconsistent, on a good day it could just blow sides away, especially at home....previous to those 2 games mentioned, we'd put 5 on Reading, 3 on Peterborough, 6 on York and 4 on Wovers, yet I went to Walsall in early 66 and we lost 5-0...later in the season, going 5 games without a goal.

I like events like East's gola fest because it's such a rarity....he's the only man I've seen score 5, and I've only seen Don, Dennis Brown, Andy Rowland, Duncan Shearer and East score 4 in a game. Shame Coxy couldn't have done a big numbers game, because his final season stats were mighty impressive otherwise.

[Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG]

This was a great day out, 4 of us went in some pub asked the landlady if she minded us playing cards for money and was told to "do what the fuck you like"   so we did and got well and truly hammered then watched us unexpectedly beat them!!

she must have known you were from swindon, because we do what we want.......

[Peter Venkman]

Boreham Wood away - A 0-0 draw.

A few to be honest - Everton, Fulham, Burnley away only for the special.

......Has anyone mentioned Carlisle away - Another "special" and a 1-1 draw. We took them back to the CG and beat them 3-0.
I remember my Mate coming out of the ground. We were all streaming out down a muddy bank I recall and my mate slipped and rolled down covered in mud............Memories wonderful.

Here is the home tie when we played them off the park even though they were 2 divisions higher in the league than us.
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The Burnley and Carlisle away specials were brilliant days out, I remember them so well. The wet mudheap just outside the away entrance at Carlisle, Scott Endersby making a fantastic save to keep us in the game near the end.

The train window blowing out when a door on an errant train next to us smashed it delaying us, somewhere around Crewe I think, and the Burnley special being bricked by their fans as we left the area......happy days!

[Peter Venkman]

One fairly random game I'd like to mention was a 7-0 3rd drubbing of Aldershot at the CG in 82/83 which was our first season in Div 4 so it was a bit shit generally, but it was John Trollope's side of mostly local kids and a few old hands, and we were going ok at the turn of the year, crowd of 7,000+ turned out.

The only time I've seen us score exactly 7...and as far as I can remember the only time I've seen a hat-trick from 2 different players, Andy Rowland and Howard Pritchard.

Burnley away in 4th round....nice football special and a screamer from Pritchard, but we lost 3-1.  The promise of that side fell away with that defeat and a poor run saw JT return to his old job of Youth Team Manager, after his sacking caused by the most disgraceful episode Arkell's mong abuse...

The Aldershot game was a good memory, we played them totally off the park, Pritchard scored 3 and TBH could have scored 6 or 7, they were one of the worst sides defensively I have ever seen at the County Ground, totally lost heart when it was 3-0 and Rideout could also have bagged himself a hattrick but didnt even get on the scoresheet in the end.

[herthab]

 Histon a few seasons back was memorable......

[Oaksey Moonraker]

There hasn't been much in the last 20 years but beating Norwich in 88 with La Bamba scoring. In 1989 we played West Ham and nearly 19,000 in the CG which must have been the biggest gate since the early 80's. Remember Fraser had an immense performance that day and pulled off an amazing point blank save.

We also played Norwich in 1990/91 and Chalky put us 1-0 up and we looked great until Nestor Lorenzo and Jon Gittens both got sent off for incidents with Robert Fleck who lived up to the sterotype of diminutive Scottish strikers.

1996 away at Southampton was good and Mark Walters then a Saint given some stick for looking like Benny from Grange Hill (one of Tucker Jenkins gang) and we had signed him within months.

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

Here is the home tie when we played them off the park even though they were 2 divisions higher in the league than us.
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The Burnley and Carlisle away specials were brilliant days out, I remember them so well. The wet mudheap just outside the away entrance at Carlisle, Scott Endersby making a fantastic save to keep us in the game near the end.

The train window blowing out when a door on an errant train next to us smashed it delaying us, somewhere around Crewe I think, and the Burnley special being bricked by their fans as we left the area......happy days!

Great indeed. Train Stopping at Crewe and a special full of Stoke fans I believe going to Liverpool.
Loads piling out and singing on the platform.

Never seen so many bottles and objects flying out of the train window as we travelled on the  secondary train lines through the penines.

Happy Days.

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

Serious question - Did anyone else on this forum go to Boreham Wood FA Cup game ?

One of the most scary experiences ever on the train station waiting for the train back into London.
Skin heads appearing over the pedestrian bridge and plenty of them as well.

[leefer]

Norwich away a few years back when Nestor Lorenzo got sent off had everything...great away day....we lost but should have beaten them....also Everton away losing 2-1 after THAT match and also Spurs away losing to two late Gerry Armstrong goals.

Actually we should have won all those games.

But my favourite game was a little remembered 4-1 loss at Forest...they had a great team under Clough and our fans were right next to the Trent End.....Kammy missed a sitter early on and i think Moss got our consolation......the atmosphere that day was incredible,probably around 1978?....anyone else remember it?

Yep Banbury i went to Boreham Wood and it was dodgy....but not as bad as Dagenham years back

[chalkies_shorts]

Reg we did Bromley 7-0 in the cup in the late 70's. We always seem to beat non league opposition those days.
Norwich away 2-0 was probably my favourite - a long way to go on a Tuesday night but well worth it. Went there a few years later lost 3-1, I got a parking ticket and had to call out the RAC for a flat battery.
My first away game was an FA cup game away v Aldershot we lost 2-1.

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

Kettering away 7-0 and poor sid nearly lost an eye from a Northampton fan using a snooker cue as a spear.

Pool balls flying everywhere.