This week's Non-League Videos of The Week are a day late, but we think that we they are are
worth the wait. This week, we are concentrating on the Third Qualifying Round of the FA Trophy.
With a place in the First Round of the competition at stake, this is a competition with a very
tangible prize at the end of it a day out at Wembley come the end of the season.
This week's Non-League Videos of The Week are a day late, but we think that we they are are
worth the wait. This week, we are concentrating on the Third Qualifying Round of the FA Trophy.
With a place in the First Round of the competition at stake, this is a competition with a very
tangible prize at the end of it a day out at Wembley come the end of the season.
By Chris Wright
Back in November of 1995, with 3,500 fans crammed into a tiny ground two metres below sea-level
in the Thames estuary, non-league Canvey Island (a team of 'postmen, brickies and bouncers'
playing in the first round of the FA Cup for the first time in their history) held Division Three
side Brighton & Hove Albion at Park Lane thanks to an 84th-minute equaliser from Alan Brett with
Brighton 'keeper Nicky Rust pulling of a desperate, clawing save in the dying moments to keep the
Essex part-timers from nicking a dramatic victory.
England are playing today, apparently, although you wouldn't necessarily know this from a trip
to Gander Green Lane this afternoon. The intuitive thing to think would be that the pull of sitting
(or, on an afternoon like this, more likely standing) in a pub watching England play out their
match against Wales would might have had a calamitous effect on non-league attendances this
afternoon, but this is certainly not the case at Sutton today.
England are playing today, apparently, although you wouldn't necessarily know this from a trip
to Gander Green Lane this afternoon. The intuitive thing to think would be that the pull of sitting
(or, on an afternoon like this, more likely standing) in a pub watching England play out their
match against Wales would might have had a calamitous effect on non-league attendances this
afternoon, but this is certainly not the case at Sutton today.
We have got four matches for you as our non-league videos of the week selection tonight. First
up is a match between two teams chasing play-off places in the Blue Square South, Woking and
Farnborough FC. Farnborough started the day in third place, but knew that anything other than a win
could see Welling United leapfrog them on goal difference.
