Sweet FA

1 Who was the first foreign manager to win the FA Cup?

2 Which team won the cup in 1988, eleven years after joining the Football League?

3 Which two players with a Z in their surname scored in FA Cup finals in the 1980s?

4 Which team won their first FA Cup in 1909 and their eleventh in 2004?

5 At which stadium was the first FA Cup final played?

6 Who played in the FA Cup final in 1938 and managed the winning team in 1965?

7 Which team in 1980, were the last from outside England’s top division to win the FA Cup?

8 What is Henry Lyte’s connection to the FA Cup final?

9 For which three clubs has John Barnes played in FA Cup finals?

10 Who were the beaten 2004 FA Cup finalists?

11 Which was the first team to beat Tottenham Hotspur in an FA Cup final?

12 How many teams contested the inaugural FA Cup competition?

13 Which uncle and nephew connect FA Cup finals of 1959 and 1984?

14 Which brothers collected FA Cup winner’s medals in 1977?

15 If Villa did it in 1981 and Sunderland in 1979, who did it in 1980?

16 Which was the first year when a FA final was settled with a penalty shoot out?

17 Who was the first player to miss a penalty in an FA Cup final?

18 Who held the FA Cup for a record seven years?

19 Who captained the winners of the 1970 Scottish FA Cup final and the 1977 English FA Cup final?

20 Who scored in the 1999 FA Cup final, 96 seconds after coming on as substitute?

21 Which goal keeper was voted Man of the Match in the 1973 FA Cup final?

22 Who won an FA Cup winners medal and a Lonsdale Belt on the same day?

23 Which player scored the goal in a 1999 FA Cup semi final that was voted the best ever FA Cup goal?

24 What did the winners of the 1988 FA Cup change their name to?

25 By 2006 which six clubs had achieved the FA Cup and League Championship double?

Answers

1 Ruud Gullit
2 Wimbledon
3 Steve McKenzie and Lawrie Sanchez
4 Manchester United
5 Kennington Oval
6 Bill Shankly
7 West Ham
8 He wrote the hymn Abide With Me
9 Newcastle, Liverpool and Watford
10 Millwall
11 Coventry City
12 15
13 Roy Dwight who played in the 1959 final for Notts Forest & Elton John chairman of Watford in 1984
14 Brian and Jimmy Greenhoff
15 Trevor Brooking, Ricky Villa scored the winning goal in 1981, Alan Sunderland the winner in 1979
16 2005
17 John Aldridge
18 Portsmouth, who won the cup in 1939 and held it until 1946 due to World War II
19 Martin Buchan
20 Teddy Sheringham
21 Jim Montgomery
22 Stanley Matthews, FA Cup winner in 1953 and winner of a Lonsdale belt as a raffle prize in the same evening’s celebratory party
23 Ryan Giggs
24 Milton Keynes Dons
25 Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Preston North End