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Semi-Final Classics Part 1
Guy Mowbray looks back at two famous FA Cup semi-finals - Liverpool v Everton at Maine Road in 1977 and Chesterfield v Middlesbrough in 1997.
Guy Mowbray looks back at two famous FA Cup semi-finals, and they don't come more dramatic or controversial than this. Liverpool took on Everton at Maine Road in 1977 in a fantastic encounter that proves referees's decisions were just as contentious in the seventies. Twenty years after that match, but long before goal-line technology was introduced, Chesterfield were trying to become the first side from the third tier to reach an FA Cup final when they took on Middlesbrough in a match they still argue about to this day.