Manchester United 3-3 Crystal Palace (AET)
Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace (Replay)

A Lee Martin goal in the 59th was enough to give Manchester United a 1-0 victory in the FA Cup Final replay at Wembley. A great crossfield pass from Neil Webb put through the onrushing left back Martin controlled the ball on his chest before smashing into the roof of the net for the eventual cup winning goal.  The match itself was far from as eventful as the original match held the previous weekend.
The first encounter saw Palace take an 18th minute lead …

John Sillett etched his name into the folklore of the F.A. Cup and imprinted his face on the history of Coventry City Football Club. The team’s 104 years in existence finally became illuminated by major silverware for the first time. There were many parallels that can be viewed as to how the trophy was attained in comparison to the very history of the club itself. Underdogs, determination and struggle are all appropriate words used to describe when Coventry reached their finest hour and in the end the prize rested in …

A momentous day in history was established on March 16th, 1872, when The Wanderers faced The Royal Engineers in the first ever FA Cup Final. Played at the Kennington Oval, infront of just 2000 spectators, not many people would have predicted that football would be at its’ current stage after, despite the show of all-out attacking football that was put on, a relatively small scoreline.
The Royal Engineers walked out as favourites, despite Wanderers fielding all of the best young players from public schools and universities. However, the game dampened early …

“Ah well, ma’am, you see we all know each other!”
The immortal words above are what Danny Blanchflower, the captain of Tottenham Hotspur, replied to the Duchess of Kent when she asked why the Leicester City players had names on their tracksuits and the Spurs team didn’t. The answer epitomised the Tottenham side of the early sixties- swaggering, suave and slightly cocksure. And how appropriate that the captain of Spurs, the captain of a side standing on the plateau of greatness, spoke the words, evidencing his impeccably cool nature before the biggest …

Leeds United 0-1 Sunderland
The 92nd FA Cup final was played at Wembley during its 50th anniversary year and was the only time that an orange ball has been used in history. These minor details just help add to what became a memorable cup final. The classic tale of the extreme underdog upsetting the team of superstars is a rare occurance but in 1973, division two club Sunderland A.F.C managed to pull off one of the greatest FA Cup upsets of all time over Don Revie’s Leeds United team of superstars with …

Stanley Matthews was the greatest player of his generation, a man Pele proclaimed “taught us the way football should be played.”

West Ham took on Arsenal in a thrilling encounter between two London sides and it was a surprise that Division two side West Ham prevailed as winners. The contest was won in the 13th minute from an easy header from Trevor Brooking who was quickest to react after a shot from Stuart Pearson flashed across the goalmouth. Although Arsenal came into the match as strong favourites they were not able to break down the defence of a West Ham side who were getting closer and closer to a mediocre mid-table finish …

During his reign as King of the United Kingdom, George V endured World War I, the rise of communism and the first Labour ministry.
What is less commonly known, however, is that the institution that is the FA Cup Final could have been over almost as quickly as it had begun without the presence of the monarch.
For in 1926, he was the guest of honour at the Football Association’s first showpiece FA Cup Final, at the newly-built Wembley Stadium. Before the respective players of Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United, the …

Argentine Flair Wins Trophy for Spurs
It was the game that everybody was talking about. Manchester City’s Tommy Hutchinson had scored both goals in the 1981 FA Cup final, to set up a fiercely contested replay between the Citizens and Tottenham Hotspur. Spurs fans were still in a state of awe following yet another mesmerizing season for Argentine pair Ricky Villa and Ossie Ardiles. In the first FA Cup final reply to be staged at Wembley, a Garth Crooks goal, sandwiched between a Villa brace, proved enough to overcome City.

Villa reels …

Few on Merseyside would begrudge King Kevin the mantle of Messiah after his double-strike helped wing the Magpies.