Views from the Sieve

I have some souvenir brochures from the F.A. Trophy 76/77.

Iam selling them on Ebay at

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117223270222

Iam selling them for £5.25 each, including P&P.

Any questions, please use Ebay.

The stadium on the cover was Wembly, I assume?

McLeansvilleAppFan wrote: Sun Jun 07, 2026 5:23 pm The stadium on the cover was Wembly, I assume?

That’s the old Wembley Stadium with the twin towers. I was there in 1974 when I was 12 years old with my dad watching Dagenham play Skelmersdale in the Amateur FA Cup. We lost 4-1 typical.

I was at that game, Skelmersdale had a young lad called Steve Highway playing for them, tore us a new one that day, went on to be quite a player for Liverpool and Ireland.

I was also there -
Sat 24th April 1971 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OOEY8yLxdU

Sagres wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2026 6:49 am I was also there -
Sat 24th April 1971 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OOEY8yLxdU

My memory is playing tricks on me it was 1971 I was 9 it was my first time at Wembley. John Still was in the team that day.

The 1974 final was the last ever Amateur Cup final. (It became the FA Trophy the following year).
It was played between Ilford and Bishops Stortford (managed by a certain Ted Hardy esq) and Stortford won 4-1.

Going back to 1971 it was great to see the footage of the final (painful as it was to be there on the day). In the semi final we had drawn the first game 3-3 with Slough. The replay was at Craven Cottage – we won 2-1. It was covered on the Big Match and hopefully this link will transport you there......

https://youtu.be/DPBJ_Z_9Seg?si=-GMGyp2aQH559THY 

Onwards and upwards!