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I've just watched the highlights of Bradford City's 4-2 win over Chelsea. The Bantams may be sixth in Division 1 but the four goals were sensational. I'm not sure how any team could have stopped them.
The highlights were part of a you tube package of the 10 greatest upsets in FA Cup history in today's digital Age.
Of course Sunderland's 1-0 triumph over Leeds United in the 1973 Final is one of the ten. Looking back on it now Rod Stewart influenced a lot of coiffure in those days. Porterfield's goal in the first half took a great deal of defending but Dave Watson, the central defender, was Sunderland's answer to Bruce Doull. Montgomery's double save in the second half cannot be topped for brilliance and I suggest you watch the highlights a couple of times to convince yourselves it was achieved by a mere mortal. Jimmy Hill does the special comments which brought a smile to my dial. His crooked goatee is timeless in the annals of FA history. I wonder why he wasn't told
The 1988 FA Cup is still probably my favourite cup final upset of all time, the Crazy Gang of Plucky Wimbledon (a small battling mid-table top-flight team at the team) against the mighty empire of Liverpool.
You could argue the Wombles started the end of Liverpool's long reign as the most dominant team in English Football.
What a team of characters the Crazy Gang had as well, Dave Beasant, Dennis Wise, Alan Cork, and of course the legendary Vinnie Jones
Still grinds my gears that the FL allowed the Wombles to Milton Keynes, which basically was the death of that club.
But those plucky Wimbledon fans started ul their own club, AFL Wimbledon, who have done well to be in League Two of the football league. Hopefully within 15 years, we can see Wimbledon back in the top-flight