On This Day – 5th September

Gillingham recorded their highest ever win on this day back in 1987, thrashing Chesterfield 10-0 at their Priestfield home.The Gills previous record victory was a 10-1 victory over non-league Gorleston in the FA Cup back in 1957. The clean sheet against Chesterfield thirty years later took the record. What made the score all the more […]

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Great FA Cup Runs No.4

Jamie Hewitt (second left) celebrates his equaliser in the 1997 FA Cup Semi-Final Chesterfield’s FA Cup run in 1997 went largely unnoticed by the majority of the nation until the Semi-Final stage, disappearing under the radar in the early rounds as they avoided all of the big guns. The first game on their FA Cup […]

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