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