It'll Be Alright In The Nineties - S1 E20 - Curling the Mayor's Hair with Alcoholic Fumes (Chippenham Town FC at the FA Vase final with Lee Burns)

Paint your face, put on your replica shirt and jump on the cup final bandwagon, because on the podcast this time we're talking non-league football as we speak to legendary Chippenham Town centre half and captain Lee Burns about the team's run to Wembley Stadium and the FA Vase final during the 1999/2000 season!

Burnsy takes us behind the scenes on that famous cup run, as we find out what it's really like to lead a team out at the home of English football in a showpiece final. Among many other fascinating stories from the time, he tells us why he almost got left behind by the team coach in Manchester, how he avoided injury and suspension (just) in the run up to the final, and which song he entertained a packed function room with after the game. We highly recommend checking out the following videos as a companion piece to this episode, which feature many of the people and incidents discussed:

Chippenham Town's Road to Wembley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJfhkXHnm1k

Chippenham Town vs Deal Town, FA Vase Final 2000 Highlights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ex-4nh6N2s

Also this time: Stones Bitter! Existential Crisis! The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents! Shredder! And much, much more...

Tickets for Chippenham Town Legends (led by Lee) versus Manchester United Legends at Hardenhuish Park on Sunday 27th March are still available from http://www.chippenhamtown.com

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Next time: it's a very welcome return for our resident pop expert Joe Barter, as we run down our favourite music videos of the decade!

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