We'd got to know them so well and we shared this great saga. Send your thoughts to the usual address: knowledge@theguardian.com. At the time that Gary Megson’s Sheffield Wednesday were drawn away to Bradford in the 2011-12 season each manager had to put out six first-team regulars (who had either started the previous game or a percentage of games across the season). It was also dubbed the 'longest' FA Cup final. He'd say: "If you're going to win this you're going to need tonk and bottle." In the end we lost 4-2 in the next round. The FA Cup is English football’s biggest cup competition and one of the most important in football. Does anyone know what the reason was for having these games between the same sides played on consecutive days, and when did an English League club last play games on consecutive days?”, • Send your questions and answers to knowledge@theguardian.com, Available for everyone, funded by readers. (Happily for football, it turned out we got both – a Megson-less Wednesday surging past a Ched Evans-less Sheffield United in the last week of the season after Megson had been left in post as a dead man walking for a crucial derby game. Graham Allner played every minute of the six matches it took for Alvechurch to beat Oxford City, The Manor Ground played host to two of the five replays between Alvechurch and Oxford City. Photograph: Matthew Ashton/sports photo. Their run from the first qualifying round to the first round proper took in three replays against Trowbridge Town and four replays against Falmouth so in all they played 13 games in the competition despite reaching only round one. “Has anybody ever been so bold as to pull of this glorious move in a professional game?”, “Charlton started this season with an 11-game unbeaten run, yet now they are sliding down the table and look like becoming embroiled in a relegation battle,” writes Chris Lutton. It is also the oldest cup competition in the world, having first started in 1871, with 736 teams taking part in the 2015/16 edition of the tournament. The FA Cup tie between Alvechurch and Oxford City (both UK) in the fourth qualifying round in November 1971 lasted for six games and 11 hours. Comments below may relate to previous holders of this record. “Is it true that Falkirk (or another Scottish side) were once shipwrecked on the way to a game?” wondered Dan Palmer back in 2012. I scored in the first and third games. Then came the jiggery pokery. Send your questions and answers to knowledge@theguardian.com or get in touch via Twitter, Wed 21 Jan 2015 10.00 GMT All in all it was an eight-round (and nine-match) run and Chasetown remain the lowest ranked team ever to reach the third round. “My question is, what is the longest unbeaten run at the start of a season that has ended in relegation?”, “I am currently reading a biography of the former Labour leader Michael Foot,” begins Simon Alvey. The true marathon men of knockout competition, though, are the Bordeaux side of 1995-96. He started using two words that I still remember. We were too knackered to go out afterwards. He won it, and was sacked by ruthless chairman Milan Mandaric in the following days. Corporate Social Responsibility activities & fundraising ideas, Community engagement & tourism marketing activities. We were exhausted, and there was the Aston Villa chairman pouring champagne into paper cups. I remember that it was freezing cold. After the game we went into the home dressing-room and Doug Ellis came down and started pouring out the champagne for us. Most wins shared (team): 5, Liverpool 3. The manager was a motivator rather than a football brain if you like, and in the end he was just talking about character. We won the toss for where the third game would be, so we played it at St Andrews. As a result of the suspension of the FA Cup for the duration of the Second World War, the next FA Cup final was not until seven years later in 1946, thereby enabling Portsmouth fans to claim that their team has held the Cup for the longest time. FA Cup final history is vast with many dramatic clashes taking place across its […] Here’s their run in full: Bordeaux 6-2 Norrkoping (Intertoto Cup group stage), Bohemian 0-2 Bordeaux (Intertoto Cup group stage), Bordeaux 4-0 Odense (Intertoto Cup group stage), HJK Helsinki 1-1 Bordeaux (Intertoto Cup group stage), Bordeaux 3-0 Eintracht Frankfurt (Intertoto Cup round of 16), Bordeaux 2-0 Heerenveen (Intertoto Cup quarter-finals), Karlsruhe 0-2 Bordeaux (Intertoto Cup semi-final, first leg), Bordeaux 2-2 Karlsruhe (Intertoto Cup semi-final, second leg), Vardar 0-2 Bordeaux (Uefa Cup first round, first leg), Bordeaux 1-1 Vardar (Uefa Cup first round, second leg), Bordeaux 2-1 Rotor Volgograd (Uefa Cup second round, first leg), Rotor Volgograd 0-1 Bordeaux (Uefa Cup second round, second leg), Bordeaux 2-0 Real Betis (Uefa Cup third round, first leg), Real Betis 2-1 Bordeaux (Uefa Cup third round, second leg), Milan 2-0 Bordeaux (Uefa Cup quarter-final, first leg), Bordeaux 3-0 Milan (Uefa Cup quarter-final, second leg), Slavia Prague 0-1 Bordeaux (Uefa Cup semi-final, first leg), Bordeaux 1-0 Slavia Prague (Uefa Cup semi-final, second leg), Bayern Munich 2-0 Bordeaux (Uefa Cup final, first leg), Bordeaux 1-3 Bayern Munich (Uefa Cup final, second leg), “Recently, Burnley made all three substitutions against Newcastle in the first 37 minutes,” observes Peter Goldstein.
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