Newcastle United 2
Wrexham 2
FA Cup (4th Round)

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Newcastle Utd 

2 - 2
HT: 0-0

Wrexham


FA Cup
(4th Round)
Saturday, January 28th, 1978
St. James' Park
Attendance: 28,425 (Away: 2,000)
3:00pm kick-off

Goalscorers
John Bird (56)
Ray Blackhall (65) 		Dixie McNeil (58)
Dixie McNeil (89)

Team Managers
Bill McGarry Arfon Griffiths

Starting Eleven
1. Mike Mahoney
2. Ray Blackhall
3. Mickey Barker
4. Irving Nattrass
5. John Bird
6. John Blackley
7. Stewart Barrowclough
8. Micky Burns
9. Mark McGhee
10. Alan Kennedy
11. Alan Gowling 		Dai Davies .1
Alan Hill .2
Alan Dwyer .3
Gareth Davies .4
John Roberts .5
Mickey Thomas .6
Bobby Shinton .7
Mel Sutton .8
Dixie McNeil .9
Graham Whittle .10
Arfon Griffiths .11

Bench
12. Mike Larnach Mickey Evans .12

Substitutions
None. None.

Cautions
None. None.

Red Cards
None. None.

Match Officials

C.N. Seel (Carlisle) (Referee)
J. McAuley (Leeds) & B.R. Eland (Middlesbrough) (Assistants)



Match Report

This match has no report.



Squad Statistics (as at January 28th, 1978)

1977-78 All Time
League Cups All
Dai Davies (GK) 18 - 9 - 27 -
Gareth Davies 25112144715
Alan Dwyer 24 - 12 - 1236
Alan Hill 13 - 7 - 66 -
John Roberts 21311 - 904
Arfon Griffiths 1215 - 704141
Mel Sutton 25112 - 29823
Mickey Thomas 24312225429
Dixie McNeil 1810672417
Bobby Shinton 25121259740
Graham Whittle 19611330892







League Table & Results (as at January 28th, 1978)

Other Wrexham matches played on January 28th, 1978:
Welsh Youth Cup
Rhos United Youth2-6Wrexham Youth

Results of league matches played since last match
17th January 1978
Sheffield Wed.2-1Exeter City
Walsall0-0Tranmere R.
20th January 1978
Portsmouth1-2Swindon Town
Tranmere R.2-1Hereford Utd
21st January 1978
Bury5-0Exeter City
Chester2-1Colchester Utd
Gillingham3-1Cambridge Utd
Oxford United3-1Bradford City
Plymouth A.0-1Carlisle United
Shrewsbury0-1Lincoln City
27th January 1978
Colchester Utd0-0Tranmere R.
28th January 1978
Cambridge Utd0-0Chester
Chesterfield3-0Portsmouth
Exeter City1-1Shrewsbury
Hereford Utd1-3Plymouth A.
Lincoln City3-0Port Vale
Sheffield Wed.3-2Bury


Division Three 1977-78
P W D L GD Pts
1. Tranmere Rovers 30 14 9 7 +18 37
2. Gillingham 28 12 12 4 +16 36
3. Cambridge United 29 14 7 8 +12 35
4. WREXHAM 25 13 8 4 +15 34
5. Preston North End 26 11 9 6 +11 31
6. Bury 28 10 11 7 +5 31
7. Colchester United 28 10 10 8 +10 30
8. Peterborough United 25 10 10 5 +3 30
9. Swindon Town 26 10 9 7 +9 29
10. Shrewsbury Town 28 10 9 9 +8 29
11. Chesterfield 26 12 4 10 +7 28
12. Chester 27 7 14 6 -6 28
13. Carlisle United 26 8 10 8 +1 26
14. Walsall 26 7 12 7 0 26
15. Exeter City 28 9 8 11 -6 26
16. Oxford United 28 8 8 12 -6 24
17. Lincoln City 27 7 10 10 -6 24
18. Rotherham United 25 7 8 10 -7 22
19. Sheffield Wednesday 27 7 8 12 -8 22
20. Port Vale 27 5 12 10 -13 22
21. Plymouth Argyle 27 6 9 12 -8 21
22. Hereford United 28 5 10 13 -17 20
23. Portsmouth 28 4 12 12 -20 20
24. Bradford City 27 6 7 14 -18 19