West Ham United want to congratulate Hornchurch FC on reaching the FA Trophy closing and securing their first-ever journey to Wembley.
The Urchins accomplished an historic run to the Home of Football with an exciting semi-final victory at Notts County on Saturday, coming from a aim down thrice to attract 3-3 earlier than profitable the penalty shootout.
After Liam Nash equalised within the first minute of added time along with his second aim of the tie at Meadow Lane, goalkeeper Joe Wright made himself the hero, saving Jake Reeves’ spot-kick earlier than Chris Dickson scored to ship Mark Stimson’s aspect by way of.
The east London aspect received seven ties to succeed in the ultimate of the FA Trophy, the premier knockout competitors for non-league golf equipment, together with upset victories over National League sides King’s Lynn Town, Maidstone United and Notts County, who performed within the top-flight as lately as 1991/92.
Hornchurch, located within the Hammers heartland only a few miles from the Club’s Rush Green and Chadwell Heath coaching grounds, will face National League North aspect Hereford at Wembley on Saturday 22 May.
This is a implausible story and an excellent achievement for a proud and historic east London soccer membership
David Sullivan
The Urchins’ run was all of the extra spectacular when you think about they haven’t performed a match within the Isthmian League for the reason that competitors’s 2020/21 season was suspended in early November.
As the main membership in east London, West Ham has recurrently supported native non-league groups, internet hosting reserve and girls’s staff matches at Thurrock, Bishops Storford, Dagenham & Redbridge and Hornchurch, supporting the membership’s enchantment for funds to in a single day stays forward of their quarter-final and semi-final victories.
Joint-Chairman David Sullivan, who lived in Hornchurch and attended matches as a teenager, has supplied monetary assist to the membership throughout their profitable FA Trophy marketing campaign. He was delighted to see the Urchins arrange the most important sport of their 98-year historical past.
“This is a implausible story and an excellent achievement for a proud and historic east London soccer membership,” Mr Sullivan enthused. “Congratulations to everybody concerned in what’s an old style story of the underdog coming good that each soccer fan loves.
“As nicely as being a West Ham fan, I’ve all the time been somebody who needs to assist native golf equipment the place I can, and I do know many fellow Hammers really feel likewise and donated to assist Hornchurch obtain their aim of reaching the FA Trophy closing.
“I grew up in Hornchurch and I keep in mind happening to observe them play once I was a boy. Now, I hope I and lots of different supporters will have the ability to go and watch them play at Wembley!”
