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The Blackburn Rovers team which won the FA Cup in 1884. Team captain James Brown (front row, centre) holds the trophy.. The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout competition in English football, organised by and named after The Football Association (the FA), the governing body of the sport in England.
Test yourself to see if you know the Three Lions players to have won the most caps as captain of the men's national side.
Bobby Moore, who remains England's youngest men's captain and the only England captain to have lifted the World Cup, reached 90 captaincies in 1973, sharing the record with Wright. Steph Houghton has the record for captaincies of the women's team, and outright fourth-most caps as captain (72) behind Wright and Moore, and Kane. Seven male ...
The FA Cup is an association football competition contested between English clubs since 1872 and is the oldest football competition in the world. [1] Winning the competition was seen as an equal achievement to winning the league championship, [2] but the growing importance of the Premier League and UEFA Champions League has seen its importance diminish. [3]
The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in domestic English football.First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competition in the world. [1]
The Royal Engineers squad that played the first FA Cup final in 1872. On 20 July 1871, in the offices of The Sportsman newspaper, C. W. Alcock proposed to The Football Association committee that "it is desirable that a Challenge Cup should be established in connection with the Association for which all clubs belonging to the Association should be invited to compete".
Emlyn Walter Hughes OBE [2] (28 August 1947 – 9 November 2004) was an English footballer.He started his career at Blackpool in 1964 before moving to Liverpool in 1967. He made 665 appearances for Liverpool and captained the side to three league titles and an FA Cup victory in the 1970s.
FA Cup second round draw. 19:53, Harry Latham-Coyle. Exeter City vs Chesterfield. Leyton Orient vs Oldham Athletic. Barnsley vs Bristol Rovers. AFC Wimbledon vs Dagenham & Redbridge