Part-time team’s victory over Crystal Palace caps phoenix-like revival after club was wound up and sold on Rightmove
When Macclesfield FC players return to their day jobs on Monday, the part-time squad of PE teachers, podcasters and property developers will add one more title: giant-killers.
The Cheshire market town club pulled off the greatest shock in FA Cup history, knocking out the Premier League team Crystal Palace and becoming the first non-league opposition to beat the cupholders since 1909.
It capped a phoenix-like rise from oblivion barely five years after the 146-year-old Macclesfield Town FC was wound up, mothballed, and sold on the property website Rightmove.
Lifelong fan Richard Snape has been watching his beloved Silkmen since 1987. He was back at the 6,000-capacity Moss Rose Stadium on Sunday to buy two souvenir scarves and, perhaps, check he was not just dreaming.
