And it was these teams that took part in one of the all-time classic matches. FA Cup semi-final. The two best clubs in the country, Arsenal and Manchester United, are battling it out to win the FA Cup, in a year which saw both teams finish in the top two positions, undeniably the elite of the English game.
Two incredible goals by David Beckham and Dennis Bergkamp saw the tie settled evenly at The sending off of Roy Keane, and a late, late penalty miss by Arsenal ended up being the catalyst to probably the best ever goal scored in an FA Cup game. Arsenal, chasing a goal and a lead to take them to the final, gave the ball away midway into the United half.
Ryan Giggs, intercepting the ball with space to run into, weaves and slaloms through the Arsenal defence. Passing defenders with ease, he makes it to the penalty box before unleashing a fierce, unstoppable shot into the roof of the net passed a helpless David Seaman.
United, going on to win the famous treble, scored the most famous goal to ever grace the competition. During , the year most famous for England lifting their first and only World Cup, was also a year for another first. Everton, facing Sheffield Wednesday, found themselves down with just over half an hour to go. Clawing the score back to through two goals by Mike Trebilcock, the Toffees scored a winner on 74 minutes to become the first club to come back from 2 goals down to win the FA Cup.
The FA Cup was first held in — This means that clubs of all standards compete, from the largest clubs in England and Wales down to amateur village teams. The tournament has become known for the possibility for "minnows" from the lower divisions to become "giant-killers" by eliminating top clubs from the tournament and even theoretically winning the Cup, although lower division teams rarely progress beyond the early stages.
The qualification rounds and a system of byes mean that the very smallest and very biggest teams almost never meet. Arsenal are the current holders, having beaten Chelsea in the final.
With their record 14th FA Cup title. Since the start of the —95 season , the FA Cup has been sponsored. However, to protect the identity of the competition, the sponsored name has always included 'The FA Cup' in addition to the sponsor's name, unlike sponsorship deals for the League Cup where the word 'cup' is preceded by only the sponsor's name.
A few other Scottish sides has been part of the competition through its history. Several teams from Wales have been part of the FA Cup, including Cardiff City who became the first Welch side to win the tournament in A few teams from Northern Ireland also participated in the 19th century.
Among these, Cliftonville performed best by reaching the third round once. This is an old tradition: Wembley has been the venue for the final since with exceptions for interruption between and when the stadium was renovated and Millenium Stadium served as venue for the final.
Before Wembley came to be the choice for the final, Crystal Palace was for many years the venue for the final. And before that it was Kennington Oval with one exception in when the final took place at Lillie Bridge. Hard on its heels, we had the seeming impossibility of Second Division Southampton defeating the might of Manchester United in , the similarly unlikely climax to the final between Arsenal and Manchester United as the last five minutes saw United salvage a draw from down, only to lose it again in the final seconds.
There was Ricky Villa dancing through the City of Manchester to win the final replay of , just days after trudging away, disconsolate and alone, after being substituted in the first game. That a competition that through over a century had seemed so much about joy and celebration should be the backdrop to such tragedy was heartbreaking in itself and, though Liverpool went on to win the cup in all-Merseyside final that year, the horrors of that semi-final day cast a long shadow.
Perhaps it always will. In , a temporary move to the Millennium Stadium reinvigorated the tournament, and the first final there saw Michael Owen step up to rescue Liverpool from a losing position by scoring twice in the last seven minutes to defeat Arsenal.
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