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Setford shuts out Ramsey’s Oxford in FA Cup win

Tommy Setford kept a clean sheet as Stevenage beat Oxford United 1-0 in the FA Cup, sending out the side managed by Aaron Ramsey.

By Alex de Valletta 2 min read AI-written

Daily Cannon’s account has Stevenage ahead in the fourth minute, a start that changed the shape of the tie straight away. From there Oxford were chasing a cup match, not just trying to settle into another meeting between two League One clubs.

Setford still had work to do. He made a full-stretch save in the first half and held the ball to stop any rebound, then produced another good stop after the break to keep out a close-range header. Those were described as Oxford’s best chances, and they were enough to show this was not one of those clean sheets collected from a distance.

For Arsenal, that is the useful part of the afternoon. A loan for a young goalkeeper only tells you so much when nothing happens. This one asked Setford to protect a narrow lead in a knockout game, and the report points to the two moments that preserved it.

There was also a familiar figure in the opposite dugout. Ramsey, described by Daily Cannon as an Arsenal FA Cup hero, saw his Oxford side go out despite a league campaign the same report says is still going well.

Stevenage go into the second-round draw as ball number 21.

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Alex de Valletta was good enough. A bad tackle at nineteen ended that sentence. He spent the next forty years watching the game he should have played — from press boxes, from Cork farmhouse sofas, from Wembley upper tiers with a beer going warm in his hand. He helped build Football Manager. He saw Freddie Mercury live. He has never married because women ask too many questions. Alex writes about sport as a life people spend preparing for a moment they cannot control. The score matters. What it costs to reach it matters more.

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