History's Biggest FA Cup Third Round Shocks - Part Two
It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast
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🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Welcome back to It Was What It Was - for Part Two of our look back at The FA Cup’s most memorable Third Round upsets!
Jonathan and Rob return to tell the stories behind five more iconic moments from football's oldest cup competition - before the pair choose their ultimate Third Round shock.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the traditional highlights of the British sporting year takes place this weekend |
| 0:10.7 | when the big clubs join the Ethical in the third round. |
| 0:13.9 | But with each passing season, its famed a month appears a preserve of die-hard traditionalists. |
| 0:21.3 | Well, welcome to it was what it was. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm Rob Drape. I'm here with Jonathan Wilson, |
| 0:25.3 | and we are reviving the FA Cup third round on this week's episode. |
| 0:29.1 | We are celebrating FA Cup shocks in the third round. |
| 0:33.6 | It is a very traditional feature and date in the English football calendar. |
| 0:39.0 | It doesn't really have an equivalent overseas, I don't think. |
| 0:43.1 | And Jonathan, you're running us through some of your favourite shocks. |
| 0:46.9 | So without further ado, please introduce one of your favourite shocks. |
| 0:50.6 | Yeah, that quote we should say was from Reuters in 2019, |
| 0:54.1 | just sort of a general scene setter. And Reuters, I mean, that quote we should say was from Reuters in 2019, just sort of a general |
| 0:55.4 | scene setter. |
| 0:56.7 | And Reuters, of course, is appealing to an international audience. |
| 1:01.4 | I think I actually read that in The Indian Express when I was searching around for quotes |
| 1:05.3 | about the Romance of the Cup and how possibly it's in decline. |
| 1:08.9 | But I think my first choice is possibly the most romantic of all epic upshops. |
| 1:15.1 | I don't think I'm just saying that because of the fact that I'm a Sondland fan. |
| 1:19.5 | But, you know, it's definitely, you know, the first goal in it is replayed, I think, more than almost any other goal from the era. |
| 1:28.2 | It's Hereford beating Newcastle 2-1 in a third-round replay in 1972. |
| 1:35.1 | So this is the first time that a non-league side has beaten a top-flight team since, do you know, |
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