It seems like only a few weeks ago that Roy Keane lifted the most famous cup in football but on Saturday the FA Cup starts all over again with the Extra Preliminary Round, the first of 14 steps to the final at the Millennium Stadium in May.
Who can forget last season's brave exploits by our inherited team Dunston Federation Brewery - it was a honour to follow them for the first 6 rounds. This season I have chosen Odd Down FC, for no other reason than they have a ridiculous name.
Odd Down play in the Western Football Premier League and look, quite frankly, pretty crap. They have lost their first 3 games and sit bottom of the table.
Chris Mountford is Odd's Director of Football (they are having a laugh aren't they?) and their star players include Tom Windows and Tony Quoi.
Odd Town is based in the football hot-bed which is Bath - altogether now, "I can't read and I can't write but I can drive a tractor!" Quite.
Anyway our boys who play in a nice all yellow kit (with blue trim) play away to Backwell United in the Extra Prelim Round, who happen to be in the same division and have had an equally inauspicious start to the season.
So wherever you are on Saturday spare a thought for the Oddies who will be starting out in front of about 70 farmers on the 2004/05 N&R's Road to Cardiff.
Monday, August 23, 2004
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