After a trawl through the draws in October, November included just four games for the Cobblers, with only two of these being league games. The FA Cup campaign got under way and we faced all northern sides in this month!
First up on the calendar was a home game with Blackpool. After the previous’ month’s frustrating stalemates, the draw was once again the result. The Tangerines took the lead on 20 minutes through former Coventry man Andy Morrell but Eoin Jess struck his only goal of the season to give us a point just after the hour mark.
Next up was the start of the FA Cup proper and Grimsby Town were the visitors to Sixfields, looking to avenge the fact that we played a part in them staying in League Two with a last day draw last season. The difference in leagues wasn’t a factor though and The Mariners held us to a dull 0-0 draw and took the tie to a replay.
The following weekend and we were at Scunthorpe, already strong contenders for promotion to The Championship at this stage. We held out for 86 minutes and looked like we were on for a very good point but yet another penalty decision went against us and Andy Crosby hammered home the spot kick to give Scunny all three points.
The reward for the winner of the Tuesday night FA Cup replay at Grimsby was a trip to Barnet and a real chance for progression into Round 3 (or so we thought!). On the eve of my university graduation, we gathered around the computer to listen in to Cobblers World as an own goal by Justin Whittle and Joe Burnell’s first for the club sent us to Spotland.
We would soon learn to regret that we’d ever made it to the second round…
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