FA Vase

DREAMS ARE MADE UNDER THE ARCH

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
2 September 2018

By Matt Badcock

ELATION: Thatcham Town clinched the FA Vase at Wembley in May
PICTURE: Action Images

IT DOESN’T seem all that long ago that Thatcham Town were in the Wembley press conference trying to take in what they had achieved.
As manager Danny Robinson rightly said, the Kingfishers are forever in Wembley history following their FA Vase triumph.
Shane Cooper-Clark scrawled his name in the record books with the only goal in the 1-0 win against Stockton Town.
On the same pitch only the day before, Chelsea and Manchester United had played out the final of the FA Cup, arguably the...

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