
Underdogs
''Fancy! A lot of working chaps beating a lot of gentlemen!''
1879, the third round of the FA Cup. A football team from the humble Lancashire cotton town of Darwen take on Remnants - a Berkshire club of the moneyed and well-connected - and beat them. It is football''s first ever giantkilling.
Their reward is a quarter-final with the mighty Old Etonians. It pitches rulers against ruled, rich against...
''Fancy! A lot of working chaps beating a lot of gentlemen!''
1879, the third round of the FA Cup. A football team from the humble Lancashire cotton town of Darwen take on Remnants - a Berkshire club of the moneyed and well-connected - and beat them. It is football''s first ever giantkilling.
Their reward is a quarter-final with the mighty Old Etonians. It pitches rulers against ruled, rich against...