FA Cup 5th Round

Notts County 1     Middlesbrough 0
Chiedozie 31
 
 

Attendance :- 17,847
Referee:-  B. Hill (Kettering)

Notts County
Colours:- White shirts with black dual pinstripes, Black shorts, White socks
League Position:- before match 21st/22, after match 21st/22 (Top tier)
Manager:- Larry Lloyd

1.   Mick Leonard
2.   Tristan Benjamin
3.   David Clarke
4.   Pedro Richards
5.   Brian Kilcline
6.   David Hunt
7.   Martin O'Neill
8.   Iain McCulloch
9.   Trevor Christie
10. Rachid Harkouk
11. John Chiedozie

Sub not used: Ian McParland

Middlesbrough
Colours:- Red shirts with white sleeves, White shorts, Red socks
League Position:- before match 11th/22, after match 11th/22 (2nd tier)
Manager:- Malcom Allison

1.   Stephen Pears
2.   Darren Wood
3.   Tony Mowbray
4.   Heine Otto
5.   Mick Baxter
6.   Irving Nattrass
7.   Gary Hamilton
8.   Mick Kennedy
9.   Garry MacDonald
10. Paul Sugrue *
11. David Currie

Sub: Paul Ward *

Video of the match:- Central TV had a camera at the match and John Chiedozie's magnificent goal was shown on the Monday 6pm news bulletin (voiced by Dennis Coath) together with a brief interview with Jimmy Sirrel on the pitch reacting to the Quarter-final draw.

No reports available

Up the Maggies footnote:
Notts progressed to the Quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time in 29 years (1955) thanks to a superb individual goal by John Chiedozie who ran on to a long ball on the left wing, beat two defenders and placed his shot into the corner of the Meadow Lane end net. I was stood right at the front of County Road where Chiedozie picked the ball up and so had a great view of it, ironically I'd been forced to move to that spot from my regular position after hundreds of Middlesbrough fans in the away end decided to climb over the fences into where X block now is to engage in a massive fight with our fans before the match began, I remember grown men being sent tumbling down the steps and landing at my feet before one of the County combatants finally conceded "There's too many of 'em!" and that seemed to be the cue for us all to make a retreat further along County Road leaving the Boro fans behind to celebrate their successful invasion. Happily it was us who were celebrating at the final whistle. Middlesbrough went on to sack manager Malcom Allison at the end of March and finished 17th in the old 2nd division. In spite of our poor position in the league, there was a genuine belief that we could go all the way in the FA Cup as the big clubs (Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal, Spurs, West Ham and Villa) had all been knocked out. The other Quarter-finalists included 3rd division Plymouth, 2nd tier clubs Derby County & Sheffield Wednesday and fellow 'unfashionable' top flight teams Watford, Luton Town and Birmingham City. The two to avoid were Everton and Southampton, yet having been drawn against lower league opposition in all of the previous rounds, I suppose we couldn't really complain about being paired up with Everton on our own patch.

Notts County Season 1983/84
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