On Saturday City travelled to Dover to play Dover Athletic in the last qualifying round of the FA Cup before the first round proper started. Having travelled all over this year, I decided that Dover was too much of a pain to get to and instead listened on the radio...having seen one win all season, typically City picked up their second win without me, with Andy Gallingah scoring from a header.
For a full match report I suggest visiting ilovebathcity.com going to the forum and reading the report written by Kelston Koppite.
However, the brilliant news from the win is City pocked £12.5k in win bonus, and were entered into the pot for the First round proper (given our almost certain relegation, from next season it will require two qualifying rounds to reach the heady heights of the first round) and texts were exchanged, bets were placed all hoping for a Sheffield Wednesday at home, or Plymouth Argyle, basically any big club too boost the gates and hopefully get the tv people down Twerton to share the gantry with Palmer.
So to the draw live on ITV, where they proceeded to show Sutton United scoring against Coventry City about a thousand times (Helpfully youtube has the game above for everyone to see the goal again!) and every stripe waited with anticipation for ball number 65 to come out of the hat, and it appears...right after Dagenham and Redbridge's ball. Crap. Dreams of a big money spinner instantly die and it appears we are going to Victoria Road (or as it is now ridiculously known London Borough of Barking & Dagenham Stadium) a team with an average attendance hovering around the 2000 mark, a bit of a slag to get to and a league above us.
However, that is only the first thought, the more optimistic (basically Hilly and Notters) point to Grimsby and suddenly thoughts are filled with cup runs and Blyth Spartans only two games from Wembley...well after the season we're having we can dream can't we?
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