Sutton United v Coventry City was a football match played on 7 January 1989 at Gander Green Lane

Borough Sports Ground

The Borough Sports Ground is the home of Sutton United F.C.. It is also known as Gander Green Lane or simply GGL because of its location on that road...

, Sutton

Sutton, London

Sutton is a large suburban town in southwest London, England, and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Sutton. It is located south-southwest of Charing Cross and is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan. The town was connected to central London by...

. The match was an FA Cup

FA Cup

The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...

 Third Round tie. It is notable for being the last time a club from the non-League

Non-league football

Non-League football is football in England played at a level below that of the Premier League and The Football League. The term non-League was commonly used well before 1992 when the top football clubs in England all belonged to The Football League; all clubs who were not a part of The Football...

 beat a club from the highest tier of English football.
The home-team, Sutton United

Sutton United F.C.

Sutton United Football Club is an English football club currently playing in the Conference South. They are based in Sutton, London, and play their home games at the Borough Sports Ground in Gander Green Lane....

, were a non-league side who played in the Conference

Conference National

Conference National is the top division of the Football Conference in England. It is the highest level of the National League System and fifth highest of the overall English football league system...

. The away team, Coventry City

Coventry City F.C.

Coventry City Football Club, otherwise known as the Sky Blues owing to the traditional colour of their strip, are a professional English Football league club based in Coventry...

, played in the old First Division

Football League First Division

The First Division was a division of The Football League between 1888 and 2004 and the highest division in English football until the creation of the Premier League in 1992. The secondary tier in English football has since become known as the Championship....

, now the Premier League. They had won the FA Cup two seasons prior.

Match summary

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GK	1	Trevor Roffey
DF	2	Robin Jones
DF	3	Tony Rains (c)
DF	4	Nigel Golley
DF	5	Vernon Pratt
MF	6	Paul Rogers Paul Rogers (footballer) For people of a similar name see Paul RogersFor the English footballer born 1989 see Paul Rodgers Paul Rogers is a retired English footballer who played as a midfielder....
MF	7	Mickey Stephens
MF	8	Phil Dawson
FW	9	Lennie Dennis Lennie Dennis Leonard "Lennie" Dennis is a Jamaican former international footballer who played semi-professionally in England as a striker.-Club career:Dennis played club football for Sutton United, Welling United, Woking and Billericay Town...
FW	10	Paul McKinnon Paul McKinnon Paul McKinnon is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker.-Career:McKinnon played briefly in the Football League for Blackburn Rovers, making five appearances during the 1986-87 season, as well as for Malmo FF, Trelleborg Tegs Sk and Orebro Sk. He is also non-league team...
MF	11	Matthew Hanlan
Substitute:
MF	12	?
Manager:
Barrie Williams

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align=center> | GK 1   Steve Ogrizovic

Steve Ogrizovic

Steven "Oggy" Ogrizovic is a former English goalkeeper who achieved fame during 16 years at Coventry City...

DF 2   Brian Borrows

Brian Borrows

Brian Borrows is a retired English football defender. He played for Everton and Bolton Wanderers, but spent the majority of his career with Coventry City...

DF 3   David Phillips

David Phillips (Welsh footballer)

David Owen Phillips is a former professional and Welsh international footballer who played as a midfielder for Plymouth Argyle, Manchester City, Coventry City, Norwich City, Nottingham Forest, Huddersfield Town, Lincoln City and Stevenage Borough.-Plymouth Argyle & Manchester City:Phillips was...

DF 4   Steve Sedgley

Steve Sedgley

Stephen Philip "Steve" Sedgley is an English former professional footballer who made more than 450 appearances in the Football League and Premier League for Coventry City, Tottenham Hotspur, Ipswich Town and Wolverhampton Wanderers. He played as a midfielder or defender...

DF 5   Brian Kilcline

Brian Kilcline

Brian Kilcline is an English former centre-half with Coventry City, Newcastle United, Notts County, Oldham Athletic, Swindon Town, Mansfield Town and Halifax Town, famous for his long hair and moustache....

 (c) DF 6   Trevor Peake

Trevor Peake

Trevor Peake is a retired English footballer. He was a member of Coventry City's FA Cup winning team in 1987 and is current assistant academy director of Leicester City.-Coaching career:...

MF 7   Dave Bennett

Dave Bennett

David Anthony Bennett is an English former Association football player. He is most famous for playing in two FA Cup Finals; 1981 for Manchester City, when he finished on the losing side, and 1987, when he produced a Man of the Match performance as Coventry City beat Tottenham Hotspur 3-2.-Playing...

MF 8   David Speedie

David Speedie

David Robert Speedie is a retired Scottish footballer who played for several clubs in England during the 1980s and 1990s, most notably Chelsea, Coventry City, Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers. He accumulated more than 500 football league appearances and scored almost 150 goals in a 14 year...

FW 9   Cyrille Regis

Cyrille Regis

Cyrille Regis, MBE is a French-born English former footballer. His professional playing career spanned 19 years, where he made 610 league appearances and scored 159 league goals, most prolifically at West Bromwich Albion and Coventry City.-Early life:Regis was born in Maripasoula, French Guiana,...

  FW 10   Lloyd McGrath

Lloyd McGrath

Lloyd McGrath is a retired English professional footballer.A hard-working midfielder, McGrath made his senior debut for Coventry City on 28 April 1984 in one of their heaviest defeats ever - an 8-2 Football League First Division defeat at Southampton...

MF 11   David Smith

David Smith (footballer born 1968)

David Smith is a retired English football midfielder who made more than 400 appearances in the Football League and Premier League and won 10 caps for the England under-21 team...

Substitute: FW 12   Keith Houchen

Keith Houchen

Keith Morton Houchen is an English former footballer and football manager. A forward, he score 162 goals in 509 league games....

  Manager:   John Sillett

John Sillett

John Charles Sillett is a former football player and manager.His father Charlie Sillett was a footballer with Southampton between 1931 and 1938. He is the younger brother of Peter Sillett, also a footballer.Sillett played for Chelsea, Coventry City and Plymouth Argyle...

Sources

• Official history of Sutton United. Retrieved 22 October 2010.

External links

• Footage of match as shown on Match of the Day
  Match of the Day
  Match of the Day is the BBC's main football television programme. Typically, it is shown on BBC One on Saturday evenings during the English football season, showing highlights of the day's matches in English football's top division, the Premier League...
  
  
• Sutton United VS. Coventry City 1989 – A statistical break-down of the match.

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