It's 50 years next month since Sunderland's famous FA Cup win in 1973, when Bob Stokoe's side lifted the trophy at Wembley. Second Division Sunderland stunned the footballing world when they beat Don Revie's then-mighty Leeds United side in the shadow of the Twin Towers to become the last team from the North East to win English football's premier cup competition.
That Sunderland team is still lionised on Wearside to this day, with players Bobby Kerr, Jimmy Montgomery, Dave Watson, Ian Porterfield, and Dennis Tueart writing themselves not only into the club's history books, but also into the folklore of the FA Cup. Sunderland got their hands on the tropy in May, but their route to the final began four months earlier in January with a low-key tie at Third Division Notts County when the fans could not have dreamed of the glory that lay ahead.
ChronicleLive has been retracing every step of Sunderland's journey to Wembley, 50 years on. They needed two attempts to see off the Magpies in the third round, remembered in part one and part two of our series.
