The Road to Cardiff update

Salisbury City continue our Road to Cardiff adventure on Saturday 30th October when they play away to Slough Town. Both teams play in the Ryman Premier League. The winners will enter the 1st Round proper, which will see the teams from the Coca Cola league's 1 and 2 take part. This has been our journey so far this season:

3rd QR Weston-Super-Mare 1, Salisbury City 3
Scorers: Davis (2), Matthews. Attendance: 543

2nd QR Replay Frome Town 0, Salisbury City 3
Attendance: 665

2nd QR Salisbury City 1, Frome Town 1
Scorer: Salter. Attendance: 636

1st QR Replay Backwell United 1, Frome Town 3
Scorer: Bloomfield. Attendance: 90 (played at Clevedon Town FC)

1st QR Frome Town 2, Backwell United 2
Scorers: Hewitt, Bryne. Attendance: 191

Prelim Round Backwell United 2, Bridgewater Town 1
Attendance: 83

Extra Prelim Round Backwell United 3, Odd Down 2
Scorers: Quoi, Tilley. Attendance: 26

64 non-league sides are left in the FA Cup (for the full draw click here) and these include Maidenhead United who have played in every competition in history except one (1876-77). Amazingly they were one of the original 15 entrants in 1871 and once reached the last four but they haven’t made it to the First Round Proper since 1971.

The 4 smallest teams left in the competition in terms of league status are Flackwell Heath, Hallen, Liversedge & Coalville Town who are in the 5th step of the pyramid (the Conference is considered 1). Flackwell & Hallen play Billericay and Canvey Island respectively whilst Liversedge and Coalville play each other meaning one of them will be in the hat for the first round proper.

No AFC Wimbledon as they bowed out in the last round at home to Thurrock in front of over 3,000 people! Other teams still remaining include Carlisle United and York City who face each other, good old Accrington Stanley, Conference leaders Barnet, two back from the grave clubs in Aldershot and Newport County and my old stomping ground for a while Hornchurch, who are taking the Conference South league by storm.