FA Cup shocks are woven into Wrexham’s history.<\/p>\n
What might concern Chelsea this fifth round weekend, is that manager Phil Parkinson has a back catalogue of upsets all of his own.<\/p>\n
Including being the most recent manager of a side from a lower division to knock out the big-spending west London side.<\/p>\n
Back in 2015, Chelsea were clear at the top of the Premier League on their way to the title in the second Jose Mourinho era.<\/p>\n
Drogba, Hazard, Fabregas and their talented team-mates should have had no problem against third-tier Bradford City, especially having gone 2-0 up at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n
“I can remember at the start of the second half looking at Mourinho,” said 58-year-old Parkinson. <\/p>\n
“You could almost see it in his eyes, thinking ‘wow’ because his team had switched off and he couldn’t get them going again.”<\/p>\n
With three minutes to go – and Bradford now 3-2 up – Mourinho reached over to shake Parkinson’s hand before the final whistle. Parkinson ignored it and watched as his side scored a fourth. They would be the only team to beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge that season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FA Cup shocks are woven into Wrexham’s history. What might concern Chelsea this fifth round weekend, is that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-524383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}