Jammers and K's make FA Cup history!

Maldon & Tiptree and Kingstonian today made FA Cup history as they travelled to Leyton Orient and Macclesfield and defeated their professional opponents to make it to the FA Cup Second Round.

The Jammers, who prior to this match had won nineteen of their twenty matches in all competitions and scored seventy two goals, travelled to Brisbane Road to take on a side seventy eight places above them in the pyramid. With such a gap the O's had to be firm favourites, but Wayne Brown's side weren't phased by reputation for one minute, and took the match to their more illustrious opponents. Danny Parish put the visitors ahead in the first half with his sixteenth goal of the season, and after the break Jorome Slew made it two, scoring his twenty first. Orient pulled a goal back with twenty three minutes remaining, and then Parish saw his afternoon end controversially, picking up a second yellow card for simulation. The award of that card seemed rather harsh, and given the first yellow had been for his celebration after scoring it would be fair to say that both bookings were rather unfortunate to say the least.

Kingstonian travelled to face a Macclesfield side in turmoil, with some of the Silkmen’s players and staff on strike due to unpaid wages. The last time the K’s had got this far in the competition was in 2000-01, when they made it all the way to the Fourth Round before a narrow replay defeat at the hands of Bristol City, and Hayden Bird's side will have one eye on the Third Round after sweeping aside their opponents by a phenomenal four goals to nil.

The K's were two goals to the good after only eleven minutes, Dan Hector and Louie Theophanous finding the net, and after the break they added two more, Dan Bennett and Theophanous with his second- his eleventh of the season- to seal victory. That's only one defeat in ten for the K's, and they'll not be afraid of facing another higher level opponent in the next round.

Congratulations to both sides, who join Chichester City in the draw, which will be broadcast live from City's Oaklands Park tomorrow night at 7PM. Watch it on BBC2.