FA Cup

CALDWELL BACKS THE WOOD FOR EFL DESTINY

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
8 November 2026

By Gareth Davies

BOREHAM W 0

WIGAN ATH 3
Mellish 11, Fox 36, 74
GARY CALDWELL guided his Wigan team to an emphatic win over Boreham Wood – then backed the National League leaders to win Football League status this season.
Wood, 12 points clear at the top of the National League, started odds-on to knock out the Latics, who are in the bottom four of League One.
But Wigan, who beat Manchester City in the 2013 final, showed their pedigree as FA Cup winners to take command from the start and ran out easy winners with goals from Jon Mellish in the 11th minute, and a double str...

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