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Article: IRON FLATTEN THE SADDLERS; Ten-men Walsall booed off in Cup crash.(Sport)
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- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2008
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Byline: BRIAN HALFORD at the Banks's Stadium
WALSALL 1 Ricketts 25 mins
SCUNTHORPE 3 Hooper 42 mins + 58mins, Hurst 92 mins
TEN-man Walsall crashed out of a second cup in five days yesterday as Scunthorpe came from behind to book a place in the second round of the FA Cup.
Two goals from Gary Hooper, a pounds 175,000 summer buy from Southend, and a rocket from sub Kevan Hurst more than cancelled out Michael Ricketts' opener for the Saddlers who were booed off by the sparse 2,318 crowd at the Banks's Stadium.
To add to Walsall woes ...