Sentence examples for rounds proper from inspiring English sources

Under Hall the team won a host of local cup honours and reached the rounds proper of the FA Cup on a number of occasions, but never managed to match this success in league competition.

The Blues have only twice progressed as far as the rounds proper of the FA Cup, reaching the first round in 1993 94 and the second round in 1990 91, when they held Chester City to a draw at home but lost 4 0 in the replay.

A favourable draw could mean a similar situation in the first round proper.

Progress would put them in tomorrow's draw for the first round proper.

I have played in every round of the FA Cup from the first round proper to the final and I understand what it means".

He had said it was an outside chance that his side carried into their seventh FA Cup tie of the season, in the third round proper, against Birmingham.

Actually, they just hoped to get to the first round proper, but Norton and Stockton Ancients knocked them out of the running.

When we founded Westfields 50 years ago, reaching the first round proper of the FA Cup would have been nothing more than a wild dream.

Rainworth Miners Welfare and Nuneaton Borough also went under the wheels of the Chasetown juggernaut and the team from the Southern League Division One (Midlands) had reached the first round proper.

Fortunately a goalless draw was enough to see Newcastle in today's draw for the first round proper of the Uefa Cup.

We got to the first round proper of the FA Cup, and took Chester (then a league side) to a replay.