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NLP says… It’s the cup that keeps on upsetting

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
22 October 2017

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Everybody loves the FA Cup, don’t they? Well, try telling that to Gary Strodder, who probably has a slightly different view of English football’s most cherished piece of silverware following events at The Hawthorns on January 5, 1991.
Strodder, a tough-tackling and no-nonsense centre-half built in the old-school mode, was marshalling the West Bromwich Albion defence on a day when an unknown part-time ‘cricketer’ from Gibraltar was busy writing his name into FA Cup folklore.
With Woking of the old Diadora League losing 1-0 at half-time in their third round tie at t...

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