By Dan Smith

On Tuesday night Stourbridge produced one of the all-time great shocks as the seventh-tier side shocked Northampton Town FC with a 1-0 victory to secure a passage into the third round.

To celebrate this, and in no particular order we will now look at the five most memorable moments in FA Cup history.

Number 5: The Crazy Gang

In 1988, minnows Wimbledon went toe-to-toe with the giants that are Liverpool FC, arguable the best team in the world during this era. This result has gone down as one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup final history as the much unfancied Wimbledon beat Liverpool 1-0. The side which included the likes of Lawrie Sanchez, Vinnie Jones and Dave Beasant had done the unthinkable. And it was the latter who proved to be a hero as he saved a John Aldridge penalty to ensure that the trophy went to Plough Lane for the first time.

Number 4: The Gerrard Final

The 2006 FA Cup final contested between West Ham and Liverpool will go down in the annuls. It is not often that a final is to be named after one player, with only Stanley Matthews receiving the honour back in 1953. But at 2-0 down Gerrard played a sublime ball to Djbril Cisse or duly obliged with the finish. It was then that Gerrard took centre stage. Scoring the equaliser and then with the last kick of the game the Liverpool Legend smashed home from 35 yards. He then proceeded to score in the shoot-out as The Reds brought home their seventh FA Cup title.

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Number 3: Chelsea Vs Bradford

In January of 2015 one of the biggest modern day upsets of all time occurred. League 1 Bradford travelled to Stamford Bridge to take on eventual Premier League champions Chelsea. Jose Mourinho’s men were 2-0 up after 40 minutes and it seemed like it would be plain siling. However, a Jon Stead goal just before half time set the game up perfectly. Goals followed from Filipe Morais, Andy Halliday and Mark Yeates as Bradford completed an epic comeback and were in the draw for the fifth round for the first time in 18 years.

Number 2: Portsmouth Vs Cardiff

This game was not special in terms of anything that happened in the game. Moreover, it was a special moment for both teams as it was Pompey’s first FA Cup final for over 60 years and Cardiff were bidding to become the first team to win the competition outside of the top flight. In front of a record breaking attendance that has not yet been broken at the new Wembley; Portsmouth reigned victorious as a first half goal from Nwankwo Kanu sent the fans into ecstasy and they held on for a 1-0 win to claim their second FA Cup final victory.

Number 1: Non-League giant killers.

In the fourth round of the 2013/12 FA Cup Luton Town knocked out Norwich City to became the first non-league team in 25 years to defeat top division opponents. They did it the hard way as well by winning the tie at Carrow Road. Having already beating Wolves in the previous round they knew what they had to do. A late strike from Scott Rendell sent The Hatters into the Fifth round. Scenes like this had not been since

Sutton United beat Coventry City back in 1989. Hopefully for the good of the FA Cup it won’t be long until we see it again.