The FA Cup has been around for more than 150 years, and the sport has evolved quite a bit between the Wanderers’ 1871-72 triumph over the Royal Engineers and the Manchester derbies staged over the ...
The Wanderers won the first FA Cup final, during the 1871-72 season, defeating Royal Engineers 1-0 at the Kennington Oval in London. The Wanderers won it again the following year. With their ...
So, in the 1872-73 season, Wanderers ... The game between Preston North End and Huddersfield Town was the first-ever FA Cup final to be televised and the BBC’s Woodroofe was unimpressed with ...
The FA Cup is the oldest national football competition ... In total, 44 teams have won the competition since that first final in 1872.
in time to be handed over at the end of the very first Final in 1872, the first FA Cup did the rounds for three years. It was stolen from a public display in a shoe shop window in Birmingham which ...
Love London history? Try our weekly history newsletter, Londonist: Time Machine. The FA Cup Final is intimately associated with Wembley... but it's not always been that way. "Welcome to Crystal ...