The FA Cup is back this weekend, and for some clubs it will be one of the biggest 90 minutes of their lives.
Worcester City are one of those clubs, win or lose. They will be bringing 2000+ fans to Glanford Park on Sunday in a game which already promises to be an exciting spectacle.
The excitement has building since the draw, more so for the Worcester fans though – as many Scunthorpe fans fear they might be the dreaded giant kill of the round.
Worcester have nothing to lose. They can go into the game without any fear, and that will give them a slight upper hand when the game starts.
If Scunthorpe settle down into the game early on and play the way they have been under new manager Mark Robins, then the class the League one team possess should emulate on to the pitch and the result should never be in doubt.
But this is the FA Cup, and the ‘magic of the cup’ wouldn’t be there if every match went to the favourite. It’s a cup where excitement is built on upsets. The fans love it. The players love it. The media love it. We all love it.
Stamped as the ‘Giant killers of round one’ after beating Coventry City at the Ricoh Arena, Worcester City currently find themselves 13 unbeaten, and have scored an impressive nine goals in only their last three outings. They are a team in the form of their lives, and it is the worst possible time the Iron could have come up against them.
But Scunthorpe are a team in form themselves, despite still sitting in the league one relegation zone. Mark Robins took over around mid-October and since then the Iron have been unbeaten in six of the seven games under his tenure, winning three, drawing three and losing one – albeit against a Notts County side who were in superb form.
So two teams will face off who have been incredibly hard to beat of late – who will come out on top? It’s very hard to call which is a credit to Worcester and the form they are in. At the end of the day after the game they will return to plying their trade in a league three divisions below the one Scunthorpe play in.
One thing is for sure Scunthorpe’s management and players alike will not be looking at the three league gap, they will concentrate solely on doing the job in front of their own fans.
No matter what the result is, over 2000 Worcester fans will have a day to remember – and that is what the FA Cup is all about, right?
Source: DSG
