QPR - On This Day
Feb 26, 2018 11:14:39 GMT
Post by northwesthoop on Feb 26, 2018 11:14:39 GMT
26 February
On this day 28 years ago on 26 February 1990 the R's defeated Blackpool in the FA Cup 5th Round 3-0 thanks to goals from Sinton, Sansom and Barker which you can see below.
What was interesting about this was that it was a win in a second replay!
We had already drawn home and away with Blackpool (placed 2 divisions below at the time) 2-2 and then 0-0. The second tie which ended 0-0 was even after extra time. So we had to play 300 minutes of football to complete one FA Cup tie overall.
That seems light years away from the current calls to do away with replays completely in the competition.
Another point of interest is that we had also only won in replays in the previous 2 rounds of this run and then lost in the next round (Quarter Finals) to Liverpool... after... you guessed it... a replay!
On this day 28 years ago on 26 February 1990 the R's defeated Blackpool in the FA Cup 5th Round 3-0 thanks to goals from Sinton, Sansom and Barker which you can see below.
What was interesting about this was that it was a win in a second replay!
We had already drawn home and away with Blackpool (placed 2 divisions below at the time) 2-2 and then 0-0. The second tie which ended 0-0 was even after extra time. So we had to play 300 minutes of football to complete one FA Cup tie overall.
That seems light years away from the current calls to do away with replays completely in the competition.
Another point of interest is that we had also only won in replays in the previous 2 rounds of this run and then lost in the next round (Quarter Finals) to Liverpool... after... you guessed it... a replay!
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