Saturday, January 03, 2009

Forest Green Rovers FC

Facing relegation in the non-league Blue Square Premier division  Forest Green are currently up 2-0 on Championship side Derby County in the FA Cup third round.  Let me put this in baseball terms for my fellow Yanks.  It would be like the Independent League Saint Paul Saints being up 4-0 in the third over the Louisville Cardinals (St. Louis' AAA team).

Put another way:
Professional Clubs
Premier League 1-24
Championship League 1-24 << Derby is currently 18th in this League
League One 1-24
League Two 1-24
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SemiBarely-Pro Clubs
Blue Square Premier 1-24 << Forest Green is currently 22nd in this League


So if you smashed it all down into one giant division of 120 teams what we have here is #118 beating #36.

And once again matches like this are the reason that FA Cup is the greatest football tourney in the world.

Update 1/4/9 02:24 -- Derby won 4-3 in a "what could have been" match for Forest Green.

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