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Diary - Saturday 4 January 2003

4 January 2003

Town make more work for themselves by recovering from a two-goal deficit to book a third round FA Cup replay against Burnley, with second-half strikes from Terry Cooke and Darren Mansaram. As expected, pacy young forward David Soames makes his full debut, but Stacy 'Doubtful' Coldicott recovers in time to deny a place in the starting line-up to Iain Ward or Chris Bolder.

Elsewhere in the Cup, third division Shrewsbury shock great big Everton with a last-gasp 2-1 win at the delightfully named Gay Meadow. John Oster celebrates his place in Sunderland's starting line-up by crossing for Kevin Phillips to equalise in their 1-1 draw with Bolton. Oh, and Scunny boss Brian Laws - who boasted on becoming Town manager in 1994 that his teams would play proper passing football like those of his mentor Brian Clough - declares ahead of the Iron's tie with Leeds: "It will be a case of us lumping it into the box at every opportunity...Leeds won't like it one bit but who cares?" The chicken sandwich flinger's outfit go down fighting by two goals to nil.