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FOXES MUST BE WARY OF CUPSET

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The Football League Paper Team
1 November 2026

By Jon Couch

TOP DAY: Leicester’s Wes Morgan, left, and Kasper Schmeichel lift the FA Cup in 2021
PICTURE: Alamy

FORMER FA Cup winners Leicester City head to Oxford City on Friday night – and must beware a Cup ambush.
Back-to-back relegations have seen the Foxes fall to the third tier, meaning they start off in the first round.
The 2021 victors have been drawn at the National League North pacesetting Hoops, who are eager to take a famous scalp in front of the TNT Sports cameras.
And after Fleetwood Town knocked Arsenal out of the Carabao Cup in midweek, manager Ro...

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