Barrow AFC v Leicester City January 1968

The Tomahawk Kid · Post by **The Tomahawk Kid** » Fri Feb 16, 2018 4:12 pm

I recently read that a historical review of the FA Cup 3rd round encounter between ourselves and The Foxes had been published in the EM recently. I visited the EM website to try and locate it but was unable to find it. Can anybody provide a link for this?

This was the first ever Football match I attended so it would be interesting to read.

xerxes · Post by **xerxes** » Fri Feb 16, 2018 5:22 pm

Can't help with that, but I do have an old scrapbook containing the NWEM Sports Final report on the day of the match. I can scan it and post here if you're interested?

Wintergreen · Post by **Wintergreen** » Fri Feb 16, 2018 5:33 pm

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/sport/barrow-a ... 94ad4b8-ds

I was at the game and remember it being very exciting, seeing Shilton, an horrendous own goal and the Leicester fans pulling a downspout off the Pop Side roof and approaching the Holker End with it!

Scrube · Post by **Scrube** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 12:33 am

The mail photo of the Barrow squad is not the one that took on Leicester, it is Don Mcevoys promotion winning team 1966/67.

Nigel Bamford · Post by **Nigel Bamford** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 10:10 am

You're quite right there, Scrube.

It was a really good game but going 2 goals down and taking until fairly late on to pull one back it never quite reached the sustained excitement of the previous season's match against Southampton.

The Tomahawk Kid · Post by **The Tomahawk Kid** » Mon Feb 19, 2018 1:49 pm

xerxes wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2018 5:22 pm Can't help with that, but I do have an old scrapbook containing the NWEM Sports Final report on the day of the match. I can scan it and post here if you're interested?

Thank you. Much obliged.

swbluebird · Post by **swbluebird** » Mon Feb 19, 2018 2:34 pm

Fifty years on and Barrow hold the unwelcome record of most appearances in the third round of the FA Cup without ever progressing further, having tried and failed a dozen times.

surely theres teams that havent progressed to the fourth round more than a dozen times?

xerxes · Post by **xerxes** » Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:21 pm

swbluebird wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2018 2:34 pm surely theres teams that havent progressed to the fourth round more than a dozen times?

Yes, the vast majority haven't. But then they haven't reached the 3rd round either.

xerxes · Post by **xerxes** » Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:08 pm

Here are the scanned pictures & report from the Evening Mail. I had to split the report into two as the full page doesn't fit in the scanner.

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Lowtower · Post by **Lowtower** » Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:46 pm

What sort of pies were available at this game ?

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