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NON-LEAGUE’S CUP HEROES

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The Late Tackle Magazine Team
2 March 2017

JOSHUA PECK looks back at the clubs who have overcome the odds to reach the last 16 of the FA Cup…

JOSHUA PECK
LINCOLN City and Sutton United made headlines recently by reaching the fifth round of the FA Cup, becoming the eighth and ninth Non-League teams to do so since the Second World War.
Both clubs beat Championship opposition en route to Round 5 having entered the competition in the fourth qualifying round and, while Sutton bowed out against Premier League giants Arsenal, Lincoln beat top-tier Burnley in a famous Cup shock.
The Imps now have a mouth-watering quarter- final to lo...

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