ALPORT AIM TO TURN THE TABLES

WHITCHURCH Alport should be better placed than most to plot an exact route to Wembley - by following in the footsteps of past conquerors.

- Andy Mitchell

The Shropshire side has bowed out of the FA Vase to finalists in two of the past three seasons, winners Newport Pagnell Town in 2022 and runners-up Great Wakering Rovers last term.

Saturday's fifth-round trip to joint-favourites and 2015 winners North Shields might have some believing history could repeat itself but coach-turned-manager Adam Shillcock - who returned to take the top job early last season following a spell at Market Drayton Town - feels something in the air.

Shillcock told The NLP: "There is a bit of history there and now we want to be the ones that other people talk about - 'we played them and they got to Wembley'.