Key Highlights
- Ecstatic scenes followed.
- The pitch invasion that came after the full-time whistle, those bear-hugs between players and fans who began partying into the night; none of it will be forgotten in a hurry in this corner of Cheshire.
- Macclesfield pull off FA Cup’s greatest shock by knocking out holders Crystal Palace Read moreJohn Brewin also charts the fall of Macclesfield Town and the rise of Macclesfield FC in their place, with Robbie Savage and now John Rooney at the heart of the revival of football in Macclesfield.
- Macclesfield is not Wrexham, hand-picked by Hollywood execs to show off UK working-class folk and then paired with two American screen stars.
- Rumour has it the town was passed over for what became Disney’s Wrexham project because, being in Cheshire, and surrounded by villages that house the north-west’s footballer and stockbroker belts, it was too bourgeois.
