Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Did you get it?

Just in case there are any of you still puzzling over yesterday's post, this was the identical score in the 1953 F A Cup Final, forever known as the "Matthews Final".  Trailing 3-1 with just over 20 minutes to go, Stanley Matthews, who had won just about every honour in the domestic game apart from a cup-winner's medal, inspired Blackpool to come back and win 4-3.  Actually Stan Mortensen, Blackpool's centre-forward might have felt justifiably miffed that it wasn't called the "Mortensen Final" because he scored a hat-trick, which I believe is still the only time this has ever been done in a Wembley final.

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