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HOW TO AVOID A CUP PAY DAY BECOMING A PAIN DAY

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The LeaguePaper Team
5 January 2025

IT IS a rarity for the FA Cup to be so kind, and so cruel, to so many League Two clubs.
Bromley will be loving the idea of the opportunity to go to St James’ Park to face Newcastle. So too Accrington at Liverpool’s Anfield, Salford at Manchester City’s Etihad, Morecambe at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge and Harrogate at Leeds’ Elland Road. But why couldn’t one of them have been drawn at home?! My fifirst visit to the top table was in round four with Farnborough Town, then of the National League, when we played Arsene Wenger’s double winning ...

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