First division Leicester City travelled to Holker Street for an FA Cup third round tie in January 1968. Barrow had progressed to this stage by defeating Oldham Athletic at home in the first round and then at Altrincham in the second round.

Barrow attacked their first division visitors from the kick off and won two corners within the first minute but failed to test a young Peter Shilton in the Leicester goal. Tragedy struck in only the second minute when Barrow’s Brian Arrowsmith sliced the ball past his own goalkeeper Fred Else to give Leicester an early lead.

Barrow should have snatched a 5th minute equaliser when McCarthy was one on one with Shilton, but the City keeper managed to deflect the ball across the face of the goal where it went within inches of the far post.

Another good chance to equalise was spurned in the 17th minute when Shilton lost possesion but the Barrow forwards failed to get a shot in quickly enough and by the time they did, Shilton had recovered to make the save.

At the other end Else did well to hold powerful shots from Cross, Large and Stringfellow. By  half-time Barrow could consider themselves unfortunate to be going in a goal down.

The second half continued in the same way as the first with the game flowing from end to end.

Barrow’s heads didn’t drop and they created several chances before David Storf sent 13000 Barrow fans wild when he pulled a goal back in the 77th minute.

In the remaining thirteen minutes Barrow pressed hard in an effort to find an equaliser,  having numerous  efforts saved or agonisingly seeing their chances go the wrong side of the woodwork.

At the final whistle Barrow had failed to make it to the fourth round for the first time in their history but had put up a tremendous fight against their more prestigious first division opponents.

By the end of the season Barrow would finish in 8th place in the third division the highest ever finish the club have achieved in their history.