LATE TACKLE EDITOR JOHN LYONS TALKS TO ACCRINGTON STANLEY BOSS JOHN COLEMAN ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FA CUP TO LOWER LEAGUE TEAMS...

ACCRINGTON Stanley boss John Coleman was praying for a plum draw in the FA Cup third round. It’s fair to say that ‘Boreham Wood away’ wasn’t exactly what he had in mind.
Anyone who watched the draw from Liverpool’s famous Anfield home on BBC Two in late November will have seen that the long-serving Stanley chief was hardly doing cartwheels, while his Wood counterpart Luke Garrard tried to see the funny side of it.
It’s not that Liverpudlian Coleman wanted ...