Non-League Paper

MEMORIES OF CUP SUCCESS NEVER FADE

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
4 November 2018

Gregor ROBERTSON

I’ve been racking my brains for a few FA Cup career highlights this week, and I suppose my need to do that tells its own story!
In 15 years as a professional, a last-16 tie against Tottenham Hotspur, when I was a fresh-faced youngster at Nottingham Forest, was about as good as it got.
There was a visit to Ipswich Town’s Portman Road when I was at League Two Chesterfield, but more often than not during my career in the lower leagues my teams seemed forever destined to draw an opponent from the same division – which yields about as much extra excitement a...

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