Minnows on the road to Wembley thread 2019/20

**Lord Snooty** · 20-10-2019, 10:22

First round draw takes place live on BBC2 at 7pm Monday.

**themaclad** · 21-10-2019, 20:27

Macclesfield v Kingstonian

**themaclad** · 07-11-2019, 17:08

FIRST ROUND

MACCLESFIELD TOWN V KINSTONIAN

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No matter what the result on Saturday this is a semi decent pay out for Kingstonian, however sayting that the home sides gates are not the best and given the swamp like conditions in the North at the moment there is a distinct possibility this could be called off like Town's last home game.

LAST TIME OUT
CARLISLE UNITED 2 MACCLESFIELD TOWN 1
BRIGHTLINGSEA 0 KINGSTONIAN 2

Macc Wiki
Macclesfield Town Football Club is a professional association football club in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, which competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club was formed in 1874 and since 1891 have played home games at Moss Rose.

They competed in the short-lived Combination league in the 1890–91 season, reforming in the Manchester League at the end of the century. They won the Manchester League title in the 1908–09 and 1910–11 campaigns, before becoming inaugural members of the Cheshire County League at the start of the 1919–20 season. They won the Cheshire County League six times (1931–32, 1932–33, 1952–53, 1960–61, 1963–64 and 1967–68) and became founder members of the Northern Premier League in 1968, winning the league's first two titles in 1968–69 and 1969–70, as well as the FA Trophy in 1970. They were promoted to the Conference after they won their third Northern Premier League title in 1986–87, part of a Northern Premier League treble as they also lifted the League Challenge Cup and President's Cup.

Manager Sammy McIlroy led Macclesfield to the top of the Conference in 1993–94, but they were not promoted as Moss Rose did not meet Football League requirements. They won the FA Trophy for a second time in 1996. They again won the Conference title in 1996–97 and this time were promoted, winning promotion in their inaugural Football League campaign with a second-place finish in the Third Division in 1997–98. However they were immediately relegated out of the Second Division. The club stayed in the fourth tier of the Football League from 1999 to 2012, losing a play-off semi-final in 2005, before being relegated back into the Conference. Despite financial constraints, manager John Askey led the club back into the Football League as champions of the National League in 2017–18. In 2018–19 manager Sol Campbell led the club to survival and avoided relegation back to the National League.

The usual cash flow problems for Macc not sure whether their players are actually being paid but they are performing a lot better than last season when they just avoided relegation.
After the departure of Sol Campbell they appointed Darryl McMahon who did a decent job as manager of Ebbsfleet for three seasons.
The home side should be favourites but this is the cup and this is were the scheduling starts to go to pot this game is being played on Sunday

**Lord Snooty** · 07-11-2019, 17:27

Macclesfield's top band?

The Macc Lads.

Can't remember owt they did but we had a lad at work who was a big fan. Think they did one about drinking n driving.

**themaclad** · 07-11-2019, 17:57

No sheep till Buxton

Beer beer we want more beer
All the lads are cheering
Get the F@@king beers in

**themaclad** · 09-11-2019, 23:27

Game goes ahead although there is a player strike against unpaid wages

**Lord Snooty** · 10-11-2019, 14:31

Five loanees and six youth team players in the Macclesfield line up.

**themaclad** · (This post was last modified: 10-11-2019, 14:59 by themaclad.)

Possibly an upset having seen that side

Kingstonian 1 up

2 up

**themaclad** · (This post was last modified: 10-11-2019, 16:16 by themaclad.)

3 up but is it a shock

0-4

**themaclad** · 10-11-2019, 16:55

Macclesfield 0 Kingstonian 4

Crisis-hit Macclesfield Town suffered an FA Cup first-round upset at the hands of seventh-tier side Kingstonian as the Silkmen's first team players went on strike over unpaid salaries.

League Two Macclesfield fielded five loanees and six youth team players and were outplayed by the Isthmian Premier Division side as home fans staged protests against the club's owners.

The K's were 2-0 up after just 11 minutes as Dan Hector latched on to a long ball forward to fire past Owen Evans, and Hector then set up Louie Theophanous to double the lead.

Dan Bennett tapped in to make it 3-0 two minutes after the break after a Theophanous shot hit the post and striker Theophanous then netted his second after rounding Evans, putting Kingstonian into the second round for the first time since 2000-01.