A special train left Wolverhampton at 2.05pm, calling at Wednesbury, West Bromwich, and Hockley, to allow the team members and their friends to travel to the final.

[8] The Roadsters took a two-goal lead in the first half-an-hour of the match, both scored by Crump, but Page shot just under the bar for a goal back shortly before half-time.

[9] One of the early matches for the club's second team was an 8–0 away win in 1877 against the St Luke's side, which, after a later merger, became Wolverhampton Wanderers.

[10] In 1878–79 the club reached the Birmingham Senior Cup final for a second time, at Aston Villa's ground at Perry Barr, losing again to the W.O.A.C., again by 3–2.

took the throw, and Holmes put the ball through the Roadsters' goal, goalkeeper Edward "Tom" Ray making no attempt to save it.

[13] The following season the Roadsters beat Calthorpe 11–0 in the first round[14] en route to the final, where the Old Uns gained revenge in front of an "immense" crowd.

However, as Notts County were playing a prestigious friendly against Queen's Park at the Castle Ground at the same time, the attendance was about a dozen.

[18] After a bye, the club ended Aston Villa's run of 17 consecutive victories by winning 3–2 at Perry Barr, to considerable surprise as Villa "were highly fancied by the critics to win [the Cup] straight out"; Crump scored one for the Roadsters and Robert Gowland, a railway clerk who had been with the club since its earliest matches, and who had been working at the Stafford Road works since he was 13,[19] the other two.

[20] Near the end of the match, Villa claimed a goal after goalkeeper Ray slipped when trying to make a save and deflected the ball away with his foot; play was stopped to allow the referee to inspect the pitch, and, finding one of Ray's footprints on the right side of the goal-line where the shot was stopped, declared there to be no goal.

[23] In July 1885, professionalism was fully legalized, by which time Crump had dropped his opposition to it, but Stafford Road remained resolutely amateur, a club solely for railway employees.