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# FA Cup replay for Chasetown FC after Stafford Rangers stalemate
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/fa-cup-replay-for-chasetown-fc-after-stafford-rangers-stalemateafter-chasetow/
- Published: 2013-09-14T21:11:03.000Z
- Updated: 2013-09-16T04:46:39.000Z
- Author: Paul Mullins
- Tags: #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:24

[![Simon Brown tries to get away from his marker. Pic: Dave Birt](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/8-simon-brownbeais-his-marker.jpg)](//lichfieldlive.co.uk/2013/09/14/fa-cup-replay-for-chasetown-fc-after-stafford-rangers-stalemateafter-chasetow/8-simon-brownbeais-his-marker/)

Simon Brown tries to get away from his marker. Pic: Dave Birt

Chasetown FC and Stafford Rangers will have to do it all again at Marston Road on Tuesday night after an evenly matched FA Cup tie ended without a goal.

It was the Evo-Stik Northern Premier strugglers who fashioned out the first chance of this local derby on the 15 minute mark when James McCarthy tested Danny Watson with an attempt he was more than equal to.

With the prestige – and prize money – that comes with the FA Cup there was a period of both sides testing each other out before Chasetown really began to take over. Danny Smith – scorer of one of Chasetown’s most famous FA Cup goals – teed up Nick Wellecomme and, against his former club, the striker brought a superb save out of Jonathan Brain in the visiting goal.

When the resultant corner was first cleared, Simon Brown’s follow up cross was headed narrowly wide by Tesfa Robinson as he stretched to get on the end of the ball to the far post.

Then, minutes later, Robinson went even closer with a header that beat Brain but was cleared off the line by Stafford skipper Darren Bullock.

Smith was a whisker wide with an overhead kick as it looked increasingly likely that it would be the hosts who opened the scoring. The Scholars forward then found the net after a superb move involving Wellecomme and Brown that tore the Stafford defence to shreds. Unfortunately for Smith, his shot through the legs of Brain was ruled out for the tightest of offside flags.

In the final minute of regulation time in the first half, the frame of the goal kept the scores level when McCarthy’s thunderbolt from close range came back off the underside of the crossbar, with Chase skipper Chris Slater caught by a high boot clearing the rebound.

Slater returned at the start of the second half with his head wound bandaged up with his presence becoming increasingly significant as the half progressed.

The second half started quite flat and Chasetown were restricted to ambitious long range efforts with Avun Jephcott one player who tested Brain from range, but the keeper was equal to it. Then, when Bullock miskicked a clearance, Smith seized on the loose ball, took a touch and lashed a first time shot that flashed well wide.

The Scholars lost Danny Bragoli through injury as the midfielder struggled to shake off a knock he’d received in the first half and his departure seemed to coincide with Stafford taking control of the game.

McCarthy was never far away from the action and tested Watson with a free header and then former Scholars striker Danny Quinn put an effort over the bar from close range.

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Chris Slater keeps a close eye on his man. Pic: Dave Birt

Jephcott threw himself in front of an Oliver Davies shot as the left back looked likely to hit the target and then another former Chasetown player, Alex Steadman, thought he had won it in the dying minutes with a long range effort that came back off the inside of the post, with Scholars skipper Chris Slater preventing a strike at goal with a tackle to deny the opposition a certain goal.

Watson kept his first Chasetown clean sheet with a dramatic save while Marco Adaggio flashed a late chance over the bar for Craig Harris’ men.

Both managers were of a similar opinion about the ebb and flow of the game afterwards.

Interim Stafford boss Andy Mutch said: “I’m pleased we’re still in the hat.

Chasetown put in a sterling performance particularly in the first half. We had our chances in the second and perhaps could have won it.”

Scholars’ boss Craig Harris added: “We were the better side in the first half but they had the better chances in the second.

“But, we’re still in the FA Cup and we’ll go again on Tuesday.”

**Chasetown:** Watson, Farmer, Keenan, Slater, Tesfa Robinson, Jephcott, S Brown, Bragoli (Butler, 63 mins), Wellecomme (Adaggio, 85 mins), Smith (Stephens, 70 mins), Beckett. Subs not used: Haynes, Teesdale, Downing, Beech.  
**Stafford Rangers:** Brain, Carr, Davies, Spittle, Bullock, Dacres (Langston 76 mins), McCarthy, Flynn, Quinn (Cope, 85 mins), Kinsella (Steadman, 65 mins), Johnson. Subs not used: R Brown, Alcock.

*Click below to see more of Dave Birt’s pictures from the game:*