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Isuzu FA Trophy preview: Chatham Town vs Southend United – Nobody’s laughing at us now

Chatham Town supremo Kevin Hake joked that he is ‘getting laughed at a lot less now’ since his ambitious club dumped National League high-flyers Carlisle out of the FA Trophy.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
25 January 2026

By Matthew Nash

Chatham Town supremo Kevin Hake joked that he is ‘getting laughed at a lot less now’ since his ambitious club dumped National League high-flyers Carlisle out of the FA Trophy.
Mark Hughes' Cumbrians had just lost seven times all season – and were very much in the hunt for an immediate return to the EFL – heading into their long trip to the Bauvill Stadium a fortnight ago.
But a single Matty Macarthur free-kick saw the Step 3 Chats pull off a 1-0 giantkilling in front of an impassioned 1,703 crowd – a result perhaps overshadowed on the day by Macclesfield’s mighty FA Cup expl...

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