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Wednesday players for that season's competition. In those first entries, the club won one match, against The Wednesday in 1885–86, before a "large number of spectators", and helped by the Wednesday playing half of the match with ten men because of injury. The
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Rangers. With the competition arranged on a regional level, the club was put into "divisions" which featured many of the country's leading clubs, and Long Eaton never had the luck of the draw; the club's first round
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player that the club was insolvent and he "would have to take his chance when the debts were liquidated". In 1900 the club launched an unsuccessful public appeal to clear debts and re-start the team.
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reserve side 5–1, away from home, in a friendly in late 1882. The strong 1882–83 season for the club - it won 23 of 26 matches, only losing one, narrowly, to the very strong
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agreeing to replay a match rather than insist on the
Eatonites' expulsion for fielding an ineligible player, the club reached the semi-finals. The tie, against
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in the Derbyshire equivalent the month before. The club reached the quarter-finals for the next two seasons before its withdrawal from national competition.
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