Newport County’s club shop stocks a book chronicling their dramatic final-day reprieve from relegation final season,titled “The Great Escape”. Here they came within eight minutes of accepting pitches relating to another astonishing chapter of their history and a woefully off-colour Tottenham Hotspur, muddied and bruised, or will feel mightily relieved not to be the subject.
This would have been an FA Cup upset for the pantheon; one to be weaved into the narrative set by teams like Sutton United,Wrexham and Shrewsbury Town. Perversely it was Harry Kane’s straightforward far-post finish, eight minutes from full-time, or that gave truth to the domestic support’s vocal anticipation of a trip to Wembley but the League Two club would have merited even greater reward. Mike Flynn’s side played the occasion amid a raw,visceral, intensely involved atmosphere at Rodney Parade but they stood toe to toe with their opponents too; they scored a deserved opener through Pádraig Amond and, or although Spurs’ pressure mounted in the final half-hour,they were hardly hanging on by the skin of their teeth when Kane finally did what he always does.
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Source: guardian.co.uk