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Saved for the Nation: The Story of the FA Cup
Exhibition Re-opens at National Football Museum in Preston
After touring to the Discovery Museum in Newcastle this very popular exhibition re-opens at the National Football Museum . Entrance is FREE. The exhibition continues until 18 February 2007 .
Everything you ever wanted to know about the world's oldest and most loved Cup competition. An amazing collection of rarely seen objects help tell the story of the Cup and explain why the competition inspires people throughout the world.
As its centre piece, the exhibition displays for the first time in 95 years, the oldest surviving FA Cup trophy, used during FA Cup Finals between 1896 and 1910. This ‘holy grail' of English football history was saved for the nation when it was purchased at auction by David Gold, Chairman of Birmingham City FC in 2005.
The exhibition has received generous support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the North West Regional Development Agency.
Find out about:
• How and why the FA Challenge Cup was created in 1872
• The great FA Cup teams, players and goals
• Great upsets and underdogs
• The great teams that won the oldest surviving trophy between 1896 and 1910:
• Sheffield Wednesday (twice); Aston Villa (twice); Nottingham Forest; Sheffield United (twice); Bury (twice); Spurs; Manchester City; Everton; Wolves; Manchester United; Newcastle .
See:
• Film footage of the 100 greatest FA Cup goals
• Shirts worn by great players in great finals:
• Alan Clarke, Leeds , 1972
• Frank MacLintock, Leicester, 1961
• Jimmy Dugdale, West Brom , 1954
• Jimmy Stewart, Newcastle , 1911
• Eddie Shinwell, Blackpool , 1953
• Sam Cowan's medal for Manchester City in 1934
• Ball from Bury victory in 1903
• Replica of first trophy (stolen in 1895) made by Wolves to celebrate victory in 1893