Wimborne Town go into tonight’s Emirates FA Cup second round draw as ball 29, one day after the biggest win in the club’s history. FINAL: Wimborne Town 2, Crawley Town 0.
The seventh tier Magpies beat League Two Crawley at a sold out Wyatt Homes Stadium yesterday, Yang Seung-woo curling in the opener after nine minutes and Cameron Munn deflecting in the second 11 minutes from time. The full story of yesterday’s upset is in our report on Wimborne Town beating Crawley.
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Wimborne Town FA Cup Second Round Draw Arrives Tonight
The second round draw takes place tonight, Monday, November 9, at Plymouth Parkway, before Parkway play Berkhamsted in the last tie of the first round. Coverage begins at 18:30 GMT on TNT Sports 1 and HBO Max, with the draw expected at about 18:45 GMT. Hosted by Jules Breach, the draw will be made by Karen Carney and Joel Ward and will also be shown on the TNT Sports YouTube channel, as Grimsby Town’s official draw guide confirms in its full ball list, where Wimborne sit at number 29.
Wimborne are one of 40 balls in the draw, alongside Leicester City at 34, Plymouth Argyle at 30 and Blackpool at 31. Manager Tim Sills has already named the tie he wants. “Whoever comes next, hopefully we’ll be at home, they will know they will be in for a tough ride,” he said. The second round ties will be played across the weekend of Saturday, December 5, and Premier League and Championship clubs enter in the third round in January, which is the prize waiting one win beyond that.
The Emirates FA Cup’s official key moments from Sunday show both goals and the final whistle scenes:
Champagne, A Pint And Work On Monday Morning
The reaction that settled overnight explains why this win landed differently at Wimborne. TNT Sports reported that kit man Jeff Robbins, who was there when Wimborne lifted the FA Vase in 1992 and has retired six times, called Sunday “the best game ever” and put 10 bottles of champagne in the dressing room. Sills, spotted with a pint in his hand during the celebrations, joked back: “We’ve got a game on Tuesday, Jeff.”
Sills told TNT Sports: “I was almost overcome with emotion towards the end there. It’s stand-alone history now as well. This club’s never got this far. We’re the ones who have created this history all the way through. The fans have roared us on and it belongs to everyone.” He added the part timer reality in the same interview: “We’ve all got work tomorrow. I’ve given them a day off football, but that’s standard anyway. But everyone’s got to be at work. I don’t know how many will make it.”
The scorers filled in their side of it this morning. Munn, whose deflection from Jackson King’s shot sealed the tie, described the goal with the line “I had no idea, it just hit me,” while Yang, a property surveyor by day, summed up the dressing room view as “we always had belief.” General manager Jimmy Glass, a familiar FA Cup name in his own right, said he “couldn’t be more proud” of the club’s history makers.
TNT Sports, who showed the tie live, also cut the full highlights package:
What The Win Pays Wimborne Town Next
The money is now settled as well as the history. The FA’s published prize fund pays first round proper winners £47,750, and a second round win on December 5 would be worth another £79,500, before any television or gate income from the tie itself. For a seventh tier club that started this run in the qualifying rounds in September, that is season defining money, which is why TNT Sports called the win exactly that.
The context has also hardened overnight. The Non-League Paper rated it the biggest upset of the first round: 57 league places separated the sides, it was Wimborne’s first ever win over EFL opposition, and their only previous first round appearance, in 1982-83, ended in a 4-0 defeat at Aldershot. Crawley, bottom of League Two and playing under interim manager Kevin Blackwell after Colin Kazim-Richards was sacked two weeks ago, have now been knocked out by non-League opposition in two straight seasons, after Boreham Wood beat them last year.
What it means next is simple. At about 18:45 tonight Wimborne stop being yesterday’s story and learn the next one: a home draw keeps the Wyatt Homes Stadium advantage that carried them past Crawley, and one more win puts a seventh tier club into the third round hat with the Premier League. Until the balls come out, ball 29 is theirs.
