Welcome to slopingpitch.co.uk

The FA Cup is football’s greatest knockout competition, and Yeovil Town FC are it’s most successful ever ‘Giantkillers’. A record 20 Football League clubs were knocked out by the side from Somerset during their 108 years as a Non-League club. Led by player-manager Alec Stock the victory over Sunderland in 1949 on the famous sloping pitch was arguably the clubs finest exploit.

Things are a little different these days, the sloping pitch is now navigated by shoppers with trolleys on a Saturday afternoon. After years of success on the pitch Yeovil Town are a Football League club. Not that they means the FA Cup has any less significance on the clubs fortunes, the club have suffered the ignominy of being ‘Giantkilled’ themselves in successive seasons.

This website has been set up to assist and promote the self-publication of a book on the glorious FA Cup History of Yeovil Town which I am currently researching and intend to write in the Summer of 2008. I am keen to hear from any Yeovil Town or opposition fans with any stories, recollections, pictures or reports from the many games that the club have played in the world's greatest cup competition.

Seb White – seb@slopingpitch.co.uk OR sebytfc@yahoo.co.uk