Road to Wembley and we move on

LAST weekend it was the ‘Road to Wembley’ time with a Third Round Qualifying fixtures taking place. This blog started the long and winding road to Wembley with Merthyr Town in the Extra Preliminary Round until they lost to Cinderford and they fell to Eastliegh.

Eastliegh who are managed by former Cardiff City player Ian Baird had a home fixture against Oxford City and were turned over losing 3-1 missing a £7,500 payday. So it Oxford City in the next round and they travel to just across the Bristol Channel to play Weston Super Mare Saturday week.

The route so far Fourth Round  

• Qualifying Sat 29 Oct 2011 Weston Super Mare v Oxford CityAtt

• Third Round Qualifying Sat 15 Oct 2011 Eastleigh 1-3 Oxford City Att 325

• Second Round Qualifying Sat 1 Oct 2011 Eastleigh 3-1 Cinderford Town Att 279 

• (Reply) First Round Qualifying Tues 20 Sept 2011 Cinderford Town 2-0 Merthyr Town Att N/A  

• First Round Qualifying Sat 17 Sept 2011 Merthyr Town 1-1 Cinderford Town Att 309  

• Preliminary Round Sat, 3 Sept 2011 Merthyr Town 1-0 Longwell Green Sports Att 345  

• (Reply) Extra Preliminary Round Wed, 24 August 2011 AFC Bitton 1- 2 Merthyr Town Att 248  

• Extra Preliminary Round Sat, 20 August 2011 Merthyr Town 2-2 AFC Bitton Att 323