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The Official History of The FA Cup
Explore the complete history of The FA Cup in this definitive illustrated book. The FA Cup is the oldest national football competition in the world, and one of the most beloved and popular tournaments in football. In 2022, it will be 150 years since the inaugural Football Association Challenge Cup was clinched by Wanderers Football Club at Kennington Oval. Since then, 'The Cup' has become one of the premier tournaments in the sport, and an iconic mainstay of the English game. The Official History of The FA Cup, produced in partnership with The Football Association, is a lavish, illustrated tribute to this iconic competition. Filled with stunning photographs spanning the full history of the Cup, this book celebrates the most exciting, significant and memorable goals, games and upsets in English football history. Featuring insightful commentary on The FA Cup's development and evolution, details of every FA Cup-winning side, and an exclusive foreword by Arsène Wenger, this is an essential companion for anyone with a love of the competition – which is to say, fans of football everywhere.
The F.A. Cup
The F.A. Cup is not only Britain's premiernbsp;soccer knockout competition, but also one of the most important sporting trophies in the world, with a long and fascinating history and an unmatched record of enthralling matches, amazing upsets, and intense drama.nbsp;This booknbsp;covers the full history of the F.A. Cup from its early days through to 2005, from the famous iconic spectacle of the white police horse controlling the crowds surging onto the Wembley pitch, through Bert Trautmann's broken neck while goalkeeping in the final for Manchester City, to the recent domination of Manchester United and Arsenal. But it also covers all the giantkilling, from Ronnie Radford's amazing goal for Hereford to Shrewsbury knocking out Everton and lowly Exeter holding Manchester United to a draw in the amphitheatre of Old Trafford. Matching enthralling narrative to exhaustive results tables and statistics, this is the essential accessory for every armchair spectator.
Phenomenal F.A. Cup
A comprehensive guide to the top UK knock-out tournement, from its early days right up to now. Meet the giants of the cup, and the giant-killers who put them to shame on the hazardous road to Wembley.
Underdogs
In 1879, a team from the Lancashire cotton town of Darwen took on the moneyed and well-connected Remnants in the third round of the FA Cup - the game would go on to become football's first giantkilling. This book is a story of the birth of the game, covering football's development towards the game we recognise today.
Motson's FA Cup Odyssey
The FA Cup competition is the greatest and most coveted football trophy in the world. Whether you're playing in Chile or Chesterfield, Beijing or Birmingham, come the final in May each year it has a worldwide television audience of billions and is rightly seen as the holy grail of soccer. Added to the excitement, round by round, live on the BBC, is the one man who is never without his renowned statistics and encyclopaedic knowledge: John Motson. For the first time, he provides lovers and laymen with a wealth of illuminating and essential trivia on the history of the FA Cup. The perfect guide to everything you wanted to know about the competition, the players, great matches, goals and the personalities that have passed through the ages. Published to coincide with the beginning of the English FA’s premier event, it is a must read for any fan of football trivia.
Preston North End
Starting the 50/51 season as Division Two champions Preston North End went on to become League runners up in the 52/53 season. This is a pictorial history of one of Preston NE's most interesting decades.
How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup
'One of the greatest football novels ever written and a comic masterpiece' DJ Taylor 'But is this story believable? Ah, it all depends upon whether you want it to believe it.' J.L. Carr In their new all-buttercup-yellow-stripe, Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, who usually feel lucky when their pitch is above water-level, are England's most obscure team. This uncategorizable, surreal and extremely funny novel is the story of how they start the season by ravaging the Fenland League and end it by going all the way to Wembley. Told through unreliable recollection, florid local newspaper coverage and bizarre committee minutes, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup is both entertaining and moving. There will never be players again like Alex Slingsby, Sid 'the Shooting Star' Swift and the immortal milkman-turned-goalkeeper, Monkey Tonks.
Stokoe, Sunderland and 73
50th anniversary edition of the story of the team that caused the last, great FA Cup upset... 'Times have changed but this book is an engrossing reminder for all fans' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'An essential piece of British football history for fans of any club. Brilliantly researched and written with an undisguised passion' Guy Mowbray, BBC's Match of the Day Today, it seems inconceivable that a team from the lower reaches of the Championship could beat the likes of Chelsea or Manchester United in the FA Cup Final. Yet, on 5 May 1973 that is exactly what happened. Six months earlier, Bob Stokoe took on an ailing Sunderland team, struggling at the bottom of the second division. But the long roa...
