Nottingham Forest, twice FA Cup winners, have had a rollercoaster ride to the Fourth Round in this season's competition.

After almost being embarrassed by Salisbury City of the Conference South in an enthralling match televised live by the BBC, Forest survived to win the replay and then knocked out Premiership Charlton Athletic in the next round.

Just when they thought they'd had enough excitement for one season, they were drawn to play the Premiership Champions. Now a full-house at Stamford Bridge will see them take on Chelsea on Sunday.

Forest, one of our oldest clubs, have been playing in The FA Cup since the 1870s - and they have one particular claim to fame.

They are the only club to have been drawn to play Cup matches in all four home countries.

In the early days of the "English Cup", clubs from Scotland and Ireland were allowed to enter. That was before their own competitions had become established.

In 1885 Forest drew their semi final with Queens Park, the Glasgow club, 1-1 at Derby and then lost 3-0 in a replay played in the grounds of the Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh.

Surely the oddest venue for one The Cup's semi-final ties!

Four years later Forest drew 2-2 in a home First Round match with Linfield Athletic from Ireland. By the time they got to Belfast for the replay, Linfield had announced that they were scratching from the competition to hand Forest a "walkover". They played a friendly instead, Linfield winning 3-1.

In 1922 Forest completed the set of all four home countries by playing a Third Round match at Cardiff City, which they lost 4-1.

No other club will be able to match what Forest did all those years ago.