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PREMIER League football stars have been going vegan to beat injuries.

Sadly, it doesn’t appear to be working, with as many veggies as meat-eaters crocked.

But it brings a new meaning to the phrase, “Eats, shoots and leaves”. The FA Cup has seen plenty of shocks, such as Hereford beating Newcastle 2-1 in the third round in 1972, Conference side Sutton United beating the First Division’s Coventry City 2-1 in 1989, and Havant and Waterlooville beating Swansea 4-2 in 2008. In 2017, Lincoln became the first non-league side in 100 years to reach the last eight, beating Premier League Burnley, 1-0.

Probably the biggest FA Cup final shock came in 1988 when Wimbledon beat Liverpool. The Reds had just won the league title and the Crazy Gang had only been in the top flight for two seasons, but sneaked a 1-0 victory with captain Dave Beasant, left, saving a penalty.

They were 5,000/1 to win the Premier League at the start of the 2015/16 season but somehow, powered by Jamie Vardy’s goals, Claudio Ranieri’s side defied expectations to lift the trophy for the first time in their history.

Before Euro 2004, Greece had only ever qualified for two major tournaments and never won a match. But after knocking out France in the quarter finals, they went on to win the tournament, defeating the hosts Portugal 1-0 in extra time. At the 1996 World Cup North Korea stunned football, beating Italy 1-0, but last year South Korea pulled of one of the biggest giant-killing sensations of the competition ever, thrashing Germany 2-0 to knock them out. At the Rugby World Cup in

2015, rank outsiders Japan pulled off the biggest shock in the sport’s history with a victory over the mighty South Africa. Nicknamed the Brave Blossoms they triumphed

34-32, scoring the winning try in added time. FOOTBALL fans are gearing up for a potential giantkilling today as League One’s Doncaster Rovers take on Premier League side Crystal Palace in the FA Cup fifth round. And over the years, there have been plenty of examples of sporting underdogs who have pulled off unlikely victories. Here recalls some of the most thrilling upsets of all time… No-one expected an unseeded 17-yearold to win the men’s title at Wimbledon in 1985. But somehow German ace Boris Becker, right, pulled off the seemingly impossible, beating eighth seed Kevin Curren,

6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 in the final. Cricket fans were bowled over when minnows the Netherlands beat England at the 2009 World Twenty20 tournament off the last ball. Then they were left even more amazed when the Dutch did it again at the same competition in 2014.

JAMES MOORE In February 1990, Mike Tyson was the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and his opponent, James “Buster” Douglas was 42/1 to win the Tokyo fight. Yet he pulled off a stunning 10th-round knockout to defeat Iron Mike.

At the 1980 Winter Olympics, the US scooped an unlikely gold medal in the ice hockey. The Americans beat the Soviet Union in a match dubbed “the Miracle on Ice” because they were mostly amateur players and their opponents, who had won the last four gold medals, were professionals.