NEW ROUND GIVES NEW CLUB

And so it appears the glamour of the FA Cup third round is diminishing; judging by some of the attendances yesterday.

I include in that the the Runcorn2wembley was at yesterday, MK Dons v Burnley, where just over 11,000 turned up for a League 1 team at home to a Premiership side.

Compare that to the 6,000 fans taken by League 1 Carlisle to Everton and the 5,000 Luton fans travelling to Southampton?

Although it wasn't as bad as the paltry attendance at the Wigan v Hull game, just of 5,000 is shocking.

But for Runcorn2wembley the trip to StadiumMK proved the best so far as a record amount was collected from fans of MK Dons and Burnley, along with Asda customers. Thank you to everyone who stopped and donated.

I say Asda customers because the supermarket allowed us to collect (thank you to Gems) outside after permission from MK Dons to collect outside the stadium was denied for a second time. The club did however provide tickets for the eight Runcorn2Wembley fundraisers.

The total raised yesterday was £465.96, taking the grand total to £3,042.73. The total has been boosted by a donation from Ruby who read the story on Burnley's website - Thank you Ruby.

And so the FA Cup journey for Runcorn2wembley takes another turn and will now follow Premiership Burnley in to the fourth round. We'll shortly find out where it will be - Turf Moor or somewhere else.

Thank you must go to everyone at Burnley for their support and we look forward to joining you on the next round of the road to Wembley.