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Emirates FA Cup 2019/20 First Round

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It's the FIRST ROUND PROPER. Back at the start of August, the 2019/20 FA Cup began and now we've made it all the way to the first round! Well done everyone. As a Birmingham fan, I've some experience of this stage of the competition. From 1989/90, Blues gloriously got straight through to the first round in five of the next six years. Those first round matches resulted in 3 wins and 2 defeats. The 6th year in that period was the 1993/94 season and the luxury of joining the Cup with the big boys in January's third round. Two words. Kidderminster Harriers. My first vivid memory of giant killing exploits in the FA Cup was not the ubiquitous Motty-Hereford-Newcastle-Ronnie-Radford moment (which I probably did see at the time, but don't remember remembering, if you get my drift), but a few years later when Leatherhead did the business in the 1974/75 FA Cup. After beating league sides Colchester and Brighton, The Tanners landed a 4th round tie at home to Leicester C...