TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR : FA Cup (Fourth Round)
Upton Park
3 - 3 (Macaulay 35' pen, Foxall 70', 78')
21 January 1939
Att: 42,716

Medhurst

Bicknell

Walker C.

Fenton E.

Walker R.

Corbett

Foxall

Macaulay

Small

Goulden

Morton

The element of surprise was present throughout the tense struggle, which perhaps was what made it so interesting. After a shaky start, Hammers had settled sown well and had enjoyed a long spell of attack when suddenly Spurs broke away, Duncan crowded out, managed to slip the ball to Morrison, playing in place of Hall. The centre-forward shot instantly and the ball flashed home.
Willie Hall, international inside-right, had done a great deal of the spade-work for this goal, and it was his initiative that led to a second, ten minutes later, which again was against the run of play. Hall chased a loose ball to the touch-line, and cleverly flicked it back to Morrison. The centre-forward pushed it past a defender on to Sargent, who fired in an express shot from an acute angle.
Almost immediately, West Ham had a great chance to pull back the deficit, Small had two successive shots charged down and the second cannoned off to Goulden. With most of the goal to aim at, Len stumbled and the ball flashed just wide.
Hammers' deserved goal was not long delayed, but it was a lucky one. Morton, almost on the goal-line, cut in to just inside the penalty area. Covered by Ward, he tried to centre, but failed to lift the ball, it went out of play off Ward's hand. The referee consulted the linesman, and gave a penalty, Macaulay crashing the ball home.
Right on the stroke of half-time, Hammers had an ideal chance of putting the score right by the play. Foxall did his best thing of the afternoon from the wing position, drawing the defence to his side of the goal, before lobbing over a centre to Morton. With Hooper out of position, and unchallenged, the left-winger headed into the side netting.
Then came an epic second half. From the home supporters' point of view, the switching of Small and Foxall when with less than half-an-hour to go, Spurs had established  3-1 lead, was the feature of a match which will long be remembered. Within a couple of minutes Foxall outstripped for speed Hitchins, who had been to tenacious for Small. With his left foot - perhaps surprising for a man who usually plays on the right wing - he crashed an unstoppable shot.
Then with ten minutes left for play, Foxall repeated the trick with an even finer goal. He tore down the middle, and appeared to have a chance to shoot with his right foot, but he could not see enough of the goal to make sure, so he calmly dribbled to the left past Whatley and Hitchins, drew Hooper over, and then - again with the left foot - crashed home an almost identical shot.