{"id":687160,"date":"2026-01-10T17:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/687160\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T17:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:17:10","slug":"stunned-macclesfield-fans-cheer-biggest-fa-cup-shock-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/687160\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunned Macclesfield fans cheer biggest FA Cup shock in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The town council added: &#8220;Picked yourself up off the floor yet?! To all the team and every single member of the staff &#8211; well done!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The town&#8217;s Labour MP Tim Roca posted on social media to say the result was &#8220;football history&#8221;, alongside a photo of the scoreboard at the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fan Sue Smith said: &#8220;Never be afraid to dream and believe. What a result, what a team. Beyond proud and in a bit of an emotional state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow Macc fan Dean Howard agreed, saying &#8220;Get in!! Against all odds!&#8221;, while Sarah Evans-Iles said: &#8220;Absolutely amazing Macclesfield FC have knocked out the FA Cup holders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reflecting on the death of forward Ethan McLeod in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5yj8094202o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">car accident<\/a> while travelling back from Macclesfield&#8217;s National League North match at Bedford Town in December, Gemma Jackson said: &#8220;That was for Ethan, congratulations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edwina Darlow said: &#8220;You have done Ethan proud!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The town council added: &#8220;Picked yourself up off the floor yet?! To all the team and every single&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-687160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115871943473587748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}