THE FA Cup boasts a certain romance that just can’t be found anywhere else in world football.

Every spectator, manager, player, chairman has an FA Cup story, a memory or nostalgia about the sport’s oldest competition.

Now, for the first time in their history, Warrington Town are flirting with the limelight the first round proper brings and it could prove the start of a love affair for the town.

This is one of the biggest games in the Yellows’ 65-year history, one that is capturing the imagination.

Everybody loves an underdog story and come Friday night, in front of a national audience, Shaun Reid’s boys have a chance to write their own.

They can plant a seed of affection for the club in a youngster’s mind; secure a lifelong supporter.

Cantilever Park will no doubt be rocking, but the reality is 90 per cent of those fans will not have set foot inside the ground before – jumping on the bandwagon so to speak.

And why not? There isn’t much better a bandwagon to jump on than a potential FA Cup upset in your own back yard.

Very few of the 2,500 supporters filing down Lousher’s Lane after work on Friday will be there to see Exeter City, it could be any Football League side and they would still be drawn to the turnstiles.

The attraction is a team from their own town finally turning heads not just in the north west, but across the country.

It’s your web developers and hospital workers facing up to professional footballers, it’s the side who have already played seven games in the competition by October going head-to-head with a club waltzing in after the qualifying stages.

There’s a story at every stage of the cup, but nothing beats a moment shared between a father and son, brothers, best friends or a random spectator you turn and hug following a goal, save or last-ditch tackle.

The amount of times my old man made me sit through a VHS of Ricky Villa’s 1981 winner against Manchester City, I almost feel I lived it myself.

Being at Wembley for that goal is an occasion he’ll never forget, and a couple of thousand people could leave Cantilever Park tomorrow night experiencing similar emotions if Warrington spring an unlikely win.

It could be any of Town’s part-timers’ Ronnie Radford moment; it could become any new found fan’s most treasured memory.

In 30 years, dads may tell their sons stories of Ben Wharton’s winner or Scott Metcalfe’s solo effort and claim, ‘I was there’.

It’s a fairytale waiting to be told.