FA Trophy

Business end if near for York City boss Askey

John Askey reckons the FA Trophy just got serious for York City and the rest of the last eight.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
6 March 2022

By Matt Badcock

JOHN ASKEY reckons the FA Trophy just got serious for York City and the rest of the last eight.
The National League North Minstermen travel to Dagenham & Redbridge on Saturday in the quarter-finals.
York have won Non-League’s top cup competition twice in the last ten years, the most recent in 2017 against Askey’s Macclesfield Town.
And the former Port Vale boss says it’s at this stage that the prospect of Wembley becomes realistic for all the remaining teams.
“It’s the one cup you can realistically win,” Askey told The NLP. “The FA Cup is obviously important because of t...

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