Off To: Guiseley

It's our first break of the season from the trials and tribulations of the league campaign as we make the short hop over the Pennines to Guiseley for the First Qualifying Round of the FA Cup.

Yes, it's once again time to embark on the road to wherever the final's being held this year though, as along with every other club taking part at this stage of the competition, the best we can hope for is the chance to be patronised on Match of the Day by Ray Stubbs and the second string pundits.

As we all know, form apparently 'goes out of the window' for some reason when the FA Cup comes along and this is something that every Mossley fan will be hoping for at Nethermoor - Guiseley's ground's name originating from a 19th Century sponsorship deal with the publishers of Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Raven.'

Whilst the non-literary types sit wondering if the last part of the preceding paragraph was a joke (yes it was, a bad one) we'll take a look at that form as well as past results between the two sides.

(a quick look elsewhere on the web)

Ah! Oh dear! I think we'll give that a miss and just move on to the...

Prediction: In the belief that I'm not going to get three in a row wrong, I'll plump for this being a famous victory for the Lilywhites. A boost for both morale and the bank balance.

And not only that but I managed to get through a Guiseley preview without once mentioning it's where Harry Ramsden's chippery originates from... oh damn it!

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