The 2023-2024 English premier league season has been very competitive, going up to the last day. It reminds me of the 2012 season when Manchester United were almost winning it, only for Aguero to snatch it in the last seconds after 90. The goal completed a turnaround for the Roberto Mancini side who were trailing Queens Park Rangers by 2 goals to 1. This was their first title in 44 years, and since then, it has been a roller coaster for the citizens. Manchester City play manchester United in an FA Cup final tomorrow. This has been a one-sided game since the blue side of Manchester got new owners. Last season, the two clubs met at Wembley Stadium, and Manchester City comfortably won the game by 2 goals to 1.
History of the FA Cup
The FA cup is the oldest competition in England, and it was first played during the 1871-1872 season. Not only is the FA cup an English season finale, it has become a fixture that many people around the world would never want to miss. The competition fostered professionalism, and feulled rivalry between great and small clubs, such that anyone could beat anyone. The competiotion started by bringing together the elite. After establishing the Football Association in 1863 and the early work done to codify the game by drafting its initial set of laws, the vision of bringing the nation’s teams together became The FA’s next guiding objective, one that was well suited to a competitive arena. Get the whole story here.
Interesting Facts About FA Cup
Did you know:
- Cardiff City became the first – and so far, only – club to take the cup out of England.
- The first final to be transmitted live on national radio was between Cardif city & Arsenal.
- Herbert Chapman sacked one of his defenders on the train home from after Wallsall defeated Arsenal in the final.
- The Football Association Cup is officially the world’s oldest football competition.
- The first FA Cup final took place on March 16, 1872, at the Kennington Oval in London.
- A total of 44 teams have won the FA cup with Arsenal having won it most times (14)
- Only Didier Drogba has scored in four different FA Cup finals.
- Since the first game in 1871, Kevin Moran of Manchester United received the first red card 113 years later in 1985.
- Portsmouth holds the record for the most years in possession of the FA Cup, having kept it in their trophy cabinet for seven years in a row.
- On the day of the final, the Cup is decorated at the start of the game with ribbons representing both teams.
- Wigan is the only team to have ever won the Cup and then relegated in the same season
- Leicester City has reached the competition’s final four times but has lost all of them.
- Louis Saha scored the fastest FA Cup final goal in history.
- This final will be the first time in history that the same two English clubs have met in consecutive FA Cup finals
Manchester City vs manchester United
Manchester City has won 6 FA Cup trophies, whereas Manchester United have won 12 times. This season is a repeat of last season’s encounter where Man City won. Having had a disastrous season, most legends of the game have their odds on the city. Former Manchester United defender says it is impossible to see Manchester United winning. Saturday’s FA Cup encounter will mark the tenth Manchester derby. City won four of the previous nine, while United won five. This season, Manchester City got the better of their city rivals.
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