Dave Payn
Active Member
As it's FA Cup semi final weekend, some FA Cup related questions. Please send anwers to me by private message only. Answers 5pm Monday. Good luck!
21 points up for grabs.
1. Listed below are FA Cup finalists (not necessarily winners) from several years. Name the team they beat in the SEMI FINAL. (5 points)
(a) Crystal Palace 1990
(b) Arsenal 1971
(c) Sunderland 1973
(d) Liverpool 2001
(e) Middlesbrough 1997
2. Ronnie Radford famoulsy scored a spectacular long range effort when non league Hereford dumped Newcastle out of the cup in 1972. Who scored Hereford's other goal in their 2-1 win that day? (1 point)
3. Which team lost all their three FA Cup final matches that they appeared in, in the 1960s (1 point)
4. In which post war year were both semi finals local derbies, and who were the teams involved? (5 points)
5. 1923 saw the first FA Cup final at Wembley, in the three previous years, which London ground staged the final? (1 point)
6. Since the first final at Wembley in 1923, in which year did the FA Cup final first go to a replay? (1 point)
7. 10 years ago, Manchester United beat Chelsea 4-0 in the final. Which two Man Utd players that day are still regulars at Old Trafford? (2 points)
8. And which three players are the only ones to survive from Arsenal's 1998 double winning FA Cup side? (3 points)
9. In the 1990 FA Cup final replay between Manchester United and Crystal Palace, who did Alex Ferguson famously replace goalkeeper Jim Leighton with after the latter's mistakes in the first game? (1 point)
10. OK, easy peasy to finish! Who scored Arsenal's winning goal in last year's final? (1 point)
21 points up for grabs.
1. Listed below are FA Cup finalists (not necessarily winners) from several years. Name the team they beat in the SEMI FINAL. (5 points)
(a) Crystal Palace 1990
(b) Arsenal 1971
(c) Sunderland 1973
(d) Liverpool 2001
(e) Middlesbrough 1997
2. Ronnie Radford famoulsy scored a spectacular long range effort when non league Hereford dumped Newcastle out of the cup in 1972. Who scored Hereford's other goal in their 2-1 win that day? (1 point)
3. Which team lost all their three FA Cup final matches that they appeared in, in the 1960s (1 point)
4. In which post war year were both semi finals local derbies, and who were the teams involved? (5 points)
5. 1923 saw the first FA Cup final at Wembley, in the three previous years, which London ground staged the final? (1 point)
6. Since the first final at Wembley in 1923, in which year did the FA Cup final first go to a replay? (1 point)
7. 10 years ago, Manchester United beat Chelsea 4-0 in the final. Which two Man Utd players that day are still regulars at Old Trafford? (2 points)
8. And which three players are the only ones to survive from Arsenal's 1998 double winning FA Cup side? (3 points)
9. In the 1990 FA Cup final replay between Manchester United and Crystal Palace, who did Alex Ferguson famously replace goalkeeper Jim Leighton with after the latter's mistakes in the first game? (1 point)
10. OK, easy peasy to finish! Who scored Arsenal's winning goal in last year's final? (1 point)