As ever, Keith casts his eye over the weekend’s action to deliver his expert opinion for Far Post Header. WEEK 37 PREMIER LEAGUE REFEREE PERFORMANCE REVIEWS SATURDAY 18TH JULY NORWICH CITY V BURNLEY RESULT 0-2Referee: Kevin FriendAssistants: Simon Beck, Andy GarrattFourth official: Dean WhitestoneReplacement official: George ByrneVAR: Lee MasonAssistant VAR: Stephen Child The main talking-point in this game was the […]
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Heroes & Villains – Grimsby Town
The bumper crowd at Old Trafford for Grimsby’s 1939 FA Cup Semi-Final with Wolves Heroes – FA Cup teams of 1935/36 and 1938/39Both of these teams reached the FA Cup Semi-Final and is the furthest that any Grimsby Town side have ever got in their 142 year history.Jackie Bestall, Harry Betmead and goalkeeper George Tweedy […]
Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.6
Forest Green Rovers vs Morecambe is hardly a fixture of two footballing heavyweights. It did however give us one of the greatest goals in FA Cup history. The name of Wayne Hatswell became well-known for all the wrong reasons after the two sides played each other in the First Round of the FA Cup in […]
On This Day – 20th May
The last FA Cup Final to be played at the old Wembley Stadium was played on this day back in 2000. It’s hard to believe that this was twenty years ago now! Chelsea and Aston Villa played out the last FA Cup Final under the Twin Towers with the Londoners winning the game 1-0. In […]
On This Day – 17th May
Roberto Di Martteo fires Chelsea ahead after only 42 seconds Chelsea won the FA Cup on this day back in 1997, beating Middlesbrough 2-0 in the Final at Wembley.This was only the second time that The Blues had won the FA Cup, the first time was in 1970. Chelsea had a dream start thanks to […]
On This Day – 12th May
Alan Sunderland (far right) runs away in celebration after his late winner in the 1979 FA Cup Final On this day 41 years ago, Arsenal beat Manchester United 3-2 to win the 1979 FA Cup.The Final became known as ‘The Five Minute Final’ after the dramatic final few minutes of the game. United scored twice […]
On This Day – 10th May
It was on this day back in 1986 that the first all-Merseyside FA Cup Final took place.Liverpool won the game 3-1 to become the first club since Arsenal in 1971 to win the League and Cup Double. Everton had finished the season as runners-up. Officially there were 100,000 fans in the Wembley crowd that day, […]
Great FA Cup Runs No.4
Jamie Hewitt (second left) celebrates his equaliser in the 1997 FA Cup Semi-Final Chesterfield’s FA Cup run in 1997 went largely unnoticed by the majority of the nation until the Semi-Final stage, disappearing under the radar in the early rounds as they avoided all of the big guns. The first game on their FA Cup […]
Great FA Cup Runs – No.3
The Portsmouth squad of 1991/92 This was one of the greatest FA Cup runs that Portsmouth fans had the privilege of watching.The club had won the FA Cup in 1939 and had reached the semi-final in 1929 and 1934. As that Cup win was 53 years before the run in 1991/92, no one under the […]
On This Day – 10th April
Football has long been used for experiments over the years. Golden Goal, Silver Goal and kick-ins replaced throw-ins in the 1994/95 season in the lower leagues in England, Belgium and Hungary. One experiment trialled in the first five seasons of the 1970’s was a Third and Fourth Place Play Off between the two losing semi-finallists […]