By Simon Wright – Follow
me on Twitter @Siwri88
Non-league
side Tamworth received the plum tie in the draw for the FA Cup second round
with Budweiser. They will host Bristol City in early December with a great
chance to not only get the game televised but for a chance to advance into the
third round alongside the heavyweights of English football.
Tamworth
created one of the stories of first round weekend as they knocked out League
Two strugglers Cheltenham Town on Saturday. They will fancy their chances
against a Robins’ side that only just recently recorded their first win of the
campaign a fortnight ago. Sean O’Driscoll’s side beat Dagenham & Redbridge
to advance into the second round.
The other
giantkillers this weekend were Macclesfield Town, who made Swindon Town look
like part-time amateurs. The men from Moss Rose thumped their much fancied
opponents 4-0 and they now have a second round home tie to look forward to
against the winners of the Gillingham v Brackley Town replay. The Gills rescued
a replay with an equaliser seven minutes into time added on.
League One
leaders Leyton Orient, who beat Southport 5-2 in round one will entertain
Walsall, while the match between Peterborough United and Tranmere Rovers also
looks like one of the more intriguing meetings of the draw, conducted on Sunday
at Wembley Stadium (balls in the draw pictured) by former Chelsea striker Tore Andre Flo and Perry Groves,
twice a league championship winner with Arsenal in the late 1980s and early
1990s.
The two
recent managers of the month winners in League Two and League One will also
lock horns as Colin Cooper’s Hartlepool go face-to-face with Steven Pressley
and his Coventry City outfit. Sheffield United will have a tough journey to
Bury or Skrill Conference Premier League leaders Cambridge United. Those teams
will have to try again after their first round tie was called off on Saturday
lunchtime due to a waterlogged pitch at Gigg Lane.
Other
standout games see Stourbridge from the seventh tier of the football pyramid
travel to Stevenage and Rotherham United, going well in League One under Steve
Evans entertaining Keith Hill’s improving Rochdale, sitting in the League Two
play-off positions.
All ties will
be played on the weekend of Saturday, 7 December and Sunday, 8 December
FA CUP SECOND ROUND DRAW WITH
BUDWEISER
Bury or
Cambridge United v Sheffield United
Wycombe
Wanderers or Crewe Alexandra v Preston North End
Shortwood
Town or Port Vale v Salisbury City
Bristol
Rovers or York City v Crawley Town
Milton Keynes
Dons v Dover Athletic
Boreham Wood
or Carlisle United v Brentford
Macclesfield
Town v Gillingham or Brackley Town
Chesterfield
v Southend United
Oldham
Athletic or Wolves v Mansfield Town
Rotherham
United v Rochdale
Peterborough
United v Tranmere Rovers
Hartlepool United
v Coventry City
Kidderminster
Harriers v Braintree Town or Newport County
Lincoln City
or Plymouth Argyle v Welling United
Wrexham v
Oxford United or Gateshead
Fleetwood
Town v Burton Albion
Grimsby Town
or Scunthorpe United v Northampton Town
Leyton Orient
v Walsall
Tamworth v
Bristol City
Stevenage v
Stourbridge
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