The entire 2011 Road to Wembley

This years N&R Road to Wembley started with Bottesford Town from near Scunthorpe and it ended with Man City winning their first trophy since Liam Gallagher was in shorts.

On the way we unearthed a couple of giant killers namely Buxton, who we found out include the N&R FL manager Greg Foulger's parents as local die-hard supporters. That was fun and they lasted until the very last minute of the last round of qualifying before getting knocked out by Conference big spenders and eventual play-off qualifiers Fleetwood Town.

Torquay then beat both Walsall and Carlisle from a higher division before being giant-killed themselves by Crawley Town.

Creepy Crawley were described as the Man U of the non-league and sure enough that is who they were drawn out of the hat with in the 5th Round. It was a day for dreamers as United scraped through by a solitary goal in front of almost 75,000 people at Old Trafford.

Crawley went on to win at a canter the Conference and will play in League 2 next season.

Meanwhile United dispatched of Arsenal but lost to local rivals City, who returned to Wembley this weekend and lifted the trophy against Stoke City.

A full run down of the games and attendance are here:

Extra Preliminary Round
Teveral 0 Bottesford Town 0
Att: 72

Extra Preliminary Round Replay
Bottesford Town 3 Teveral 1
Att: 85

Preliminary Round
Bottesford Town 2 Barrow Town 1
Att:

1st Qualifying Round
Bottesford Town 0 Buxton 3
Att: 135

2nd Qualifying Round
Brackley Town 1 Buxton 3
Att: 306

3rd Qualifying Round
Buxton 1 AFC Telford 1
Att: 836

4th Qualifying Round
AFC Telford 2 Buxton 2 (Buxton won on pens)
Match report from Greg Foulger's Dad.
Att: 1,122

5th Qualifying Round
Fleetwood Town 2 Buxton 1
Att: 1,181

1st Round Proper
Fleetwood Town 1 Walsall 1
Att: 2,319

1st Round Replay
Walsall 2 Fleetwood Town 0
Att: 2,056

2nd Round
Torquay 1 Walsall 0
Att: 2,334

3rd Round
Torquay United 1 Carlisle United 0
Att: 3,005

4th Round
Torquay United 0 Crawley Town 1
Att: 5,065

5th Round
Manchester United 1 Crawley Town 0
Att: 74,778

6th Round
Manchester United 2 Arsenal 0
Att: 74,693

Semi-Final (Wembley)
Manchester United 0 Manchester City 1
Att: 86,549

Final (Wembley)
Manchester City 1 Stoke City 0
Att: 88,643

Look out for what will probably be the first post of the 2011/12 season when we pick our first Road to Wembley team.