Witham Town captain Paul King has dedicated the team’s history-making FA Cup win at Needham Market to former club chairman Tony Last.
Last passed away last summer and never got to see the club he loved so much play in the top flight of the Ryman League, so King and his team-mates are only too aware of how much their FA Cup third qualifying round victory in Suffolk would have meant to him.
Goals by Tom Wraight and James Stevens earned a 2-1 win that placed Witham’s name in the fourth qualifying round draw for the first time in the club’s history and King was quick to remember a man who had done so much to make it possible.
He said: “I spoke to (Tony’s widow) Linda after the game and I told her ‘this one’s for Tony’.
“He’d have been looking down on us and I bet he’d have been kicking every ball.
“It’s such a shame that he never got to see us play in the (Ryman League) premier division, but that one was definitely for him.
“We’re just buzzing to have got through and made more club history.”
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