Haunted by the goal that never was: Third-tier Chesterfield were cruelly denied a 1997 FA Cup final date with star-studded Chelsea… 25 years later the Conference leaders finally face the Blues in the competition’s third-round
One Monday back in December, David Seaman dipped his hand into a glass bowl, fished out ball No 61, chortled into a camera and sent an FA Cup flashback through a market town in north-east Derbyshire. ‘Unfinished business,’ smiled Chesterfield chairman Mike Goodwin once the din of being drawn against Chelsea subsided. ‘If David Elleray…