Biggest FA Cup third round shocks ahead of latest 2017 ties

Manchester United 0-1 Leeds United, 2010

The bitterness between the red of Man Utd and the white of Leeds United still continues today despite contesting in different divisions, but the latter Championship club got one up in this heated rivalry in 2010.

On a miserable evening for Sir Alex Ferguson’s reigning Premier League champions, Leeds hitman Jermaine Beckford sent the visiting Yorkshire crowd into hysterics after his solo strike earned them a memorable 1-0 win, when they were still battling it out as a League One club.

Everton 0-1 Oldham Athletic, 2008

Everton take to our list with their agonisingly narrow defeat at the hands of Oldham back in 2008, when a Gary McDonald strike sent the Manchester-based side through to a shocking fourth-round appearance.

Home forwards James McFadden and James Vaughan had wasted glorious chances to put the hosts ahead, with substitute and cult-hero Yakubu also hitting the crossbar, though John Sheridan’s Oldham held on for a remarkable win on their travels.

Shrewsbury Town 2-1 Everton, 2003

Toffees fans look away, again! The top-flight Merseysiders feature for a second time for their 2003 third-round defeat to a Shrewsbury side who were then ranked exactly 80 places below them, and it was the Toffees’ most successful ever skipper that masterminded a stunning upset.

Kevin Ratcliffe was in charge of the Shrews and guided them to a famous victory at Gay Meadow, with the hosts’ 34-year-old captain Nigel Jemson opening proceedings with a stunning free-kick, before Jemson struck again following a Niclas Alexandersson equaliser.

The winning margin could have been more if not for the heroics of Richard Wright in goal, but the Shrews earned a historic win over David Moyes’ men, who were fighting for a European position domestically and possessed a certain teenager named Wayne Rooney within their ranks.

Bournemouth 2-0 Man Utd, 1984

This season, Man Utd, last year’s winners and the joint-most successful team in FA Cup history are 6/1 to retain the trophy, but they will have to avoid another shock like their loss to Bournemouth when they soon face Reading.

In 1984, the Cherries stunned the footballing world by handing a star-studded Red Devils side, which featured England captain Bryan Robson, an unbelievable 2-0 defeat.

Managed by a young and inexperienced Harry Redknapp, Bournemouth rattled in two goals from Milton Graham and Ian Thompson during a crazy five minutes after the hour mark, to eventually produce one of the competition’s most memorable upsets and prove that cup magic exists.

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