Salisbury City have an excellent Cup history and are our latest team to follow in this season's Road to Cardiff after knocking out Frome Town in a 2nd Qualifying Round replay. They play in the Ryman Premier League and are currently 5th from bottom.
Here are some very interesting facts about The Whites:
- They play in all white, hence nickname. They are very bright these farmers.
- Formed in 1947.
- They play at the 3,740 capacity Raymond McEnhill Stadium in Old Sarum, Salisbury.
- Mis-teeq played there live in the summer!
- In case you're interested Raymond McEnhill is a "rich local businessman."
- They once reached the 2nd Round proper of the FA Cup in the 1959/60 season, losing at home to Newport County.
- More recently they played Millwall in the 1st Round in 1979. They lost 2-1 in a game switched to the Old Dell for safety reasons. They have reached the 1st Round proper on 7 other occasions, the last time was last season when they lost away at Sheff Wed 4-0.
- The manager is former Southampton Cup winner Nick Holmes who played 539 times for the Saints.
- Players to watch out for are striker Leigh Phillips, midfielder Craig Davies and experienced defender Andy Cook who played over 200 league games for Swansea, Exeter, Millwall & Portsmouth - yeh, I've never heard of him either!
Salisbury will play Weston-Super-Mare away in the 3rd Qualifying Round (2 from the 1st Round proper) on Saturday at Weston's impressive new Woodspring Stadium. Let's hope we can support a team for more than one round this time or we will have to bring back Dunston Federated Brewery.
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