F.A. Cup upset
NZPA-Reuter London Altrincham staged an upset 2-1 triumph over Birmingham in the third round of the English Football Association (F.A.) Cup yesterday — the first nonleague club to topple a first division opponent from the competition for 11 years. Birmingham was booed from the pitch by its fans after an inept first half in which neither side looked like scoring. But the first division strugglers’ luck seemed to
have changed when Robert Hopkins scored from a Ray Ransom corner in the sixtythird minute. Birmingham’s relief was short-lived because two minutes later their shaky defence failed to clear an Altrincham counter-attack and Ronnie Ellis crashed home the equaliser. Altrincham kept pressing and after 75 minutes snatched victory when Hopkins turned from hero to villain by inadvertently tapping the ball into his own goal.
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Press, 16 January 1986, Page 34
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