How we won the FA Cup 100 years ago

[RammyBlade]

28/3/1925

FA Cup semi final at Stamford Bridge

Blades 2 (Parker og, Tunstall) Southampton 0

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I love the comment about the attendance being very big ....... despite the counter attraction of the boat race !!

 

[ghandi]

Billy was only 34 when the final was played, he looks about 70 in the pictures above.
Interesting fact, when Billy retired he managed Derry City back in his homeland and to honour Billy who bear in mind was an legend in Irish football, they changed there shirt colour's to the famous stripes of the Blades

If you take the walking tour around Derry the guide mentions this when viewing the Brandy Well from the city walls overlooking the Bogside.

 

[DifferentClass]

Front page of Wiki today

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I was surprised to see that we played at Everton the following Monday; and then lost a County Cup match at Rotherham on the Thursday.

 

[programmechap]

I was surprised to see that we played at Everton the following Monday; and then lost a County Cup match at Rotherham on the Thursday.

Between the final v Spurs in 1901 and the replay a week later, we played a league game v Liverpool (which we lost, along with the replay).

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Between the final v Spurs in 1901 and the replay a week later, we played a league game v Liverpool (which we lost, along with the replay).

Was the Cup Final played on the final Saturday of the league season, with the finalists catching up the week after? Presumably that changed with the onset of live radio/tv.

 

[programmechap]

Was the Cup Final played on the final Saturday of the league season, with the finalists catching up the week after? Presumably that changed with the onset of live radio/tv.

Our fixtures
Sat 20 Aprl FAC final Tottenham D2-2
Mon 22 April D1 H Liverpool L0-1
Sat 27 April FAC final replay. Tottenham L1-3
Mon 29 April D1 A Wednesday L0-1
Tues 30 April D1 A WBA W2-0

So 5 games in 10 days around the cup final!

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[Rufus Smalls]

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Great line from Fred that back then around 20 clubs had ‘reasonable grounds’ to hope to win the Cup that year !

If only that were the case these days.

 

[Tickhill Blade]

Our fixtures
Sat 20 Aprl FAC final Tottenham D2-2
Mon 22 April D1 H Liverpool L0-1
Sat 27 April FAC final replay. Tottenham L1-3
Mon 29 April D1 A Wednesday L0-1
Tues 30 April D1 A WBA W2-0

So 5 games in 10 days around the cup final!

Does anyone know why the replay was played in Bolton, of all places?

 

[programmechap]

Does anyone know why the replay was played in Bolton, of all places?

Maybe all they could get at short notice. Mind you, they had the replay at the Crystal Palace, the same place as the final, the following year.

Perhaps the Palace had something else on in 1901?

 

[Silent Blade]

Does anyone know why the replay was played in Bolton, of all places?

The ground hosted 4 FA Cup semi finals too, the most recent was in 1970 (Leeds v Man U 2nd replay) and before that was in 1966 (Everton v Man U). Attendance for 1966 was 60,000 and 56,000 in 1970. My only visit to the ground was in April 1977 and I remember thinking that it was a very old ground

 

[Tickhill Blade]

The ground hosted 4 FA Cup semi finals too, the most recent was in 1970 (Leeds v Man U 2nd replay) and before that was in 1966 (Everton v Man U). Attendance for 1966 was 60,000 and 56,000 in 1970. My only visit to the ground was in April 1977 and I remember thinking that it was a very old ground

Found this, apparently should have been at Goodison:

Originally the replay was arranged for Everton’s Goodison Park, but as Liverpool had a home match in the league against Nottingham Forest that day they objected so it was switched to the relatively new Burnden which had been opened five years earlier and offered the advantage of hosting large crowds.


With a lot of attention paid to the game, and the fact such a large crowd had attended the original final, arrangements were made for another big turnout with catering at the top of the list.


Thousands of scones and pork pies were ordered for the big day, which was then thrown into chaos by the fact Bolton railway station was being redeveloped and that the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways would not offer cheap train travel for the Tottenham supporters.


This, added to the fact it took six hours to get there, caused most of them to give the final a miss.


The result was an attendance of just over 20,000 – and lots of leftover pork pies.

 

[Revolution]

Found this, apparently should have been at Goodison:

Originally the replay was arranged for Everton’s Goodison Park, but as Liverpool had a home match in the league against Nottingham Forest that day they objected so it was switched to the relatively new Burnden which had been opened five years earlier and offered the advantage of hosting large crowds.


With a lot of attention paid to the game, and the fact such a large crowd had attended the original final, arrangements were made for another big turnout with catering at the top of the list.


Thousands of scones and pork pies were ordered for the big day, which was then thrown into chaos by the fact Bolton railway station was being redeveloped and that the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways would not offer cheap train travel for the Tottenham supporters.


This, added to the fact it took six hours to get there, caused most of them to give the final a miss.


The result was an attendance of just over 20,000 – and lots of leftover pork pies.

The day was remembered in Bolton as “Pie Saturday” for years afterwards.