Lincoln should have no chance of winning an FA Cup quarterfinal away to Arsenal, 89 places higher in the country's soccer pyramid. Lincoln's players say the FA Cup run has united a city of around 95,000 people behind its soccer team, which has never played in the top division in its 133-year history. Lincoln is top by six points in the fifth-tier National League and on course for a return to the Football League, which the Cowleys insist is their priority. Around 9,000 Lincoln fans will travel down to London early Saturday, looking to see their team become the first non-league side to reach the FA Cup semifinals since Swindon in 1912. "They'll be rocking a bit," Lincoln fan Danny Hunter, a 24-year-old farmer, said of Arsenal.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 09, 2017 19:15 UTC