Borough Park

This is the Giant Killing Adventure’s first visit to Borough Park.  Workington AFC are currently bottom of the Skrill Conference North, with 8 pts from 12 games.

Stourbridge FC play one division lower in the football league tier system - in the Calor League - Premier Division.  Stourbridge are currently in 5th position with 21 points from 11 games; having won their last 6 games in a row.

This is Workington AFC’s first match in the Giant Killing Adventure – previously in the FA Cup they beat Burscough FC 2-1 in the 2^nd Qualifying Round and then away at Guisborough Town 1-4 in the 3^rd Qualifying Round.

Lucky for the Giant Killing Adventure, this fixture was covered by the FA in their Road to Wembley series.  Click on the link below to see highlights of that match.

Guisborough V Workington AFC

This is Stourbride FC’s second match in the Giant Killing Adventure – previously in the FA Cup they beat Evesham United away 0-3 in the 1^st Qualifying Round and then Sutton Coldfield Town at home 3-2 in the 2nd Qualifying Round. I witnessed a fine domineering performance in the 3^rd Qualifying Round against Curzon Ashton as they knocked the Giant Killing Adventure’s league leaders out of the tournament 3-0.

In other news:-

Don’t forget about The Giant Killing Adventure Facebook page.  The page will hold images, comments and information about new blog postings.  Please feel free to be part of the community by ‘Liking’ the page. Click on link below:

https://www.facebook.com/thegiantkillingadventure

The FA Cup community is growing bigger as I type.  At Workington AFC I will be joined by comrades who are also following their own route to Wembley – this has now become the same river as our Giant Killing Adventure. Alan Oliver – known as the Casual Hopper - and his daughter started off at West Didsbury V Abbey Hey. Their coverage is more football based than the Giant Killing Adventure's and their website www.thecasualhopper.co.uk is geared towards making money for the Christie Cancer Charity.  This is a great cause and personal to me as I lost my mother to cancer and I have partaken in various Christies Charity bike rides.  I give my best wishes to the Casual Hopper and his cause.

Calvin Wade @calvin_wade is following the route with his father and writing a book about the experiences. 

The football cynic has also joined the same route and more information about him can be found @footballcynic and http://footballcynic.com/.

This is great stuff, the more, the merrier I say, and we’ll see how big the community grows in each round as more and more of us with the same idea meet.

Here is more from the You tube site by the journeymen – they are following their own road to Wembley by making short films of their matches.  It’s a bit sweary - just a warning to people who are offended by 4 letter words and any kids that might be reading. However, you can get a feel for the kind of grounds and atmospheres produced during these early FA Cup games.  Click the link  if you are interested in Horsham V Chatham Town.

If the journeymen continue and we continue then at some point we’ll all meet.

I hope you’ve enjoyed the extras.  My guest Frazer Sanderson will be joining me again and we’ll see you on Saturday 26th October 2013 for our blog’s match between Workington AFC and Stourbridge FC – 2 days, 2 sleeps, can’t wait.