Mansfield BEAT Burnley in the FA Cup: League One minnows stun Premier League rivals to serve another upset after Macclesfield’s triumph over Crystal Palace

Not since 1975 had Mansfield Town reached the fifth round of English football’s most famous knockout cup competition.

Not for more than half a century have the followers of this unfashionable League One club experienced such delight.

It explains much; the fervour, the roar and the raw emotion which greeted the final whistle from the 3,500 travelling Stags supporters.

‘Yellow, yellow, yellow!’ they chanted over and again in celebration of a famous success which saw Nigel Clough’s League One side come

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