leeds united won the 1972 fa cup.can any one tell me why it was a centenary year?
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obvious ..coz it was 100 years old since inception !!
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I don't really know but it has delayed well over half a year and that is not good enough. Even the FA Cup final had to be redirected to the Millenium because it couldn't get finished. It was supposed to end somewhere around Autumn in 2005 but you can see the time it took the stupid builders to get it done can't you? It's April now. Although it is a gigantic stadium but missions are there to but accomplished on time but these people are driving us crazy. It's a real shame. I was looking forward to the FA Cup final before they riuned my hopes.\n\nOh and by the way please please please choose me for the best answer, thanks.
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Nottingham Forest won the league in 1978.  This was their only success in the league.  In 1979 they won the European Cup and they were entered into the competition the next year as holders.  They won that year as well.\nUnfortunately, they have fallen on very bad times since Brian Cloughs days and are now in the 3rd tier of English football (league One).
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why do you care so much about 1954..?\nwake up man! it's world cup 2006
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Lots of goalkeepers have died in all manner of ways (they're a bit odd in that respect), can you be more specific as to when and where?\n\nTry checking the list on the site in the source.\n\nOr are you thinking of Bert Trautmann, who broke his neck in the 1956 FA Cup final and played on for the remaining 15 minutes, ensuring a Manchester City victory?
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Preston North End was the first team to achieve double, i.e winning the league & FA Cup in 1888-1889 season. they won the league ahead of Aston Villa with 40 points & beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-0 in the FA Cup final.
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The FA Cup is the oldest football competition in the world, commencing in 1872 (the Scottish Cup beginning a year later in 1873). It has been played since 125 years.
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Considering that in 1966 is the only time England won the world cup - for sure it is the one from back there. Let's hope this years t-shirt will repeat the success. It's been 40 years it's hight time for England to do it again.\nGO ENGLAND!
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There was not a team to TOUCH Liverpool in the Eighties. or in the Seventies.\nWALK ON, WALK ON WITH HOPE IN YOUR HEART..\n\nHONOURS \n\nLeague Championship\n1st Division Champions (18 times)\n1900-01, 1905-06, 1921-22, 1946-47, 1963-64, 1965-66, 1972-73, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1987-88, 1989-90\n\n1st Division runners up (9 times)\n1898-99, 1909-10, 1968-69, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1977-78, 1984-85, 1986-87, 1988-89\n\nDivision Two Winners (4 times)\n1893-94, 1895-96, 1904-05, 1961-62\n\nLancashire League Winners 1\n1892-93\n\nReserves Division One Winners (16 times)\n1956-57, 1968-69, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1972-73, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1984-85, 1989-90, 1999-2000\n\n\nFA Cup\nFA-cup winners (6 times)\n1964-65, 1973-74, 1985-86, 1988-89, 1991-92, 2000-01\n\nFA-cup runners up (6 times)\n1914, 1950, 1971, 1977, 1988, 1996\n\nFA Youth Cup\nFA Youth Cup Winners (1 time)\n1995-1996\n\nLeague Cup\nLeague-cup winners (7 times)\n1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1994-95, 2000-01, 2002-03\n\nLeague-cup runners up (3 times)\n1978, 1988, 2005\n\nCharity Shield\nCharity Shield Winners (14 times)\n1964*, 1965*, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977*, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986*, 1988, 1989, 1990*, 2001 ( * shared)\n\nEuropean Cup\nEuropean Cup winners (5 times)\n1976-77, 1977-78, 1980-81, 1983-84, 2005-2006\n\n\nEuropean Cup runners up(1 time)\n1984-85\n\nUEFA Cup\nUEFA Cup winners (3 times)\n1972-73, 1975-76, 2000-2001\n\nEuropean Cup Winners Cup\nEuropean Cup Winners Cup runners up (1 time)\n1965-66\n\nEuropean Super Cup\nEuropean Super Cup winners (3 times)\n1977, 2001, 2005\n\nWorld Club Championship\nWorld Club Championship runners up (1 time)\n1981\n\nSuper Cup (1 time)\n1985-86\n\nCarlsberg Trophy (3 times)\n1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000
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Leeds United, Leeds United FC the greatest team in football the world has ever seen!!
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oh yes. i assume you mean best fa cup final ever. it was fantastic - reminiscent of the great champions league in istanbul. liverpool just didn't give up - even though most of them played pretty poorly most of the game. it was rescued by gerrard, and reina. fair play to west ham, they played really really well (even though none of their goals were good goals, if we're honest).\n\nfrom a liverpool fan.
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Bolton Wanderers 2 West Ham United 0 (FACF)\nWembley's first event was the FA Cup Final of 1923 and that April day was marked by some unprecedented scenes. Before the match a huge crowd outside the stadium rushed the gates, burst through the barriers and swarmed onto the field of play. More than 200,000 people attempted to squeeze into a ground that had been built to accommodate 125,000.\n\nIt took forty-five minutes after the time fixed for the kick-off for mounted police to clear the pitch, with PC George Scorey and his white horse "Billy" particularly visible. The first Wembley goal came only a couple of minutes after the delayed start, and David Jack, Bolton's inside-right, was the scorer. Eight minutes into the second period Bolton scored another, clinching goal. John Smith took a pass from Vizard on the left and sent in a half-volley. The ball hit the back of a net pulled tight by the crowd behind it and rebounded back into play.\n\n\nSo the answer is David Jack of Bolton Wanderers
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Albert Johanneson, for Leeds United against Liverpool in 1965.
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Man Utd won the FA Cup eleven times: 1909, 1948, 1963, 1977, 1983, 1985, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1999, and 2004.
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No son, the best ever Cup Final goal was scored by Ricky Villa in 1981. But I remember 87 Final.\nIt was a memorable occasion, who would have fancied the Sky Blues after Clive Allen gave Spurs the lead?\nBut Houtchen's diving header was a gem, that I won't deny.
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If we are talking FA Cup final then the first goal was scored by Alex James in the 17th minute of the 1930 cup final.\n\nIf you are actually after the very first goal ever in the FA cup then that would have been in the 11-0 win over Lyndhurst in the qualifying round of the FA cup in October 1889. Unfortunately I have been unable to trace the team details for this game.
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I hope this gives you enough info !!\n\nIn April 1950 Chelsea's Roy Bentley scored the goal against Scotland at Hampden that clinched the British Championship and with it a place in the World Cup Finals in Brazil. \n\nIt was England's first World Cup, having been outside FIFA for the tournaments of 1930, 1934 and 1938. They were one of the favourites. The long-awaited first World Cup Finals match was played on Sunday, 25 June at the famous Maracana in Rio de Janeiro. \n\nThe team was managed by Walter Winterbottom and the players who lined up against Chile were Bert Williams, Alf Ramsey, John Aston, Billy Wright (captain), Laurie Hughes, Jimmy Dickinson, Tom Finney, Wilf Mannion, Roy Bentley, Stan Mortensen and Jimmy Mullen. \n\nIt turned out to be a disappointing game, played in pouring rain before a crowd of just under 30,000. England's attack never got going; the Chilean forwards were lively but generally weak in front of goal. \n\nEngland's first ever World Cup goal was scored by the legendary Stan Mortensen, giving Chilean 'keeper Livingstone no chance with a firm header on 38 minutes. \n\nThree years later "Morty" scored a hat-trick for Blackpool in The FA Cup Final. Yes, the "Matthews Final". \n\nCarvallo struck the bar and "George" Robledo, who played for Newcastle United, hit a post with a free-kick as England were kept on their toes. Chile were more robust in the second half, with Winterbottom's side struggling to find any rhythm in their play. \n\nMidway through the second period England scored a decisive second. Mortensen sent Finney clear down the right and from his cross Mannion steered the ball just inside Livingstone's right-hand post. \n\nFour days later, in Belo Horizonte, England lost embarrassingly to the USA and failed to progress beyond the group stage in their first World Cup.