It's FA Cup Final Day on Saturday, with the international multi-millionaires of "Manchester City" playing the international multi-millionaires of "Manchester United" for the honour of lifting the famous trophy - and very substantial "win bonuses".
It was all very different in 1938, when Preston North End beat Huddersfield at the "old" Wembley, 1 - 0 after extra time, in front of a crowd of 93,000:
Pathe News Reel of the 1938 Cup Final.VBCW "Yorkists" will be encouraged by this footage.
The 1938 FA Cup Final was the first to be televised. The number of TV sets amongst the population, however, was vanishingly small, and most people will have seen the FA Cup Result from the newsreels at the cinema:
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| "The Passing Show" magazine of 30th April 1938. These fans are in Huddersfield Town colours. It may be that behaviour from the terraces does not quite translate to the cinema... |
For an in-depth analysis of the differences between the modern game and that of the 1930s, we can do no better than hand you over to those two Very British football commentators, Messrs. Grayson and Cholmondley-Warner, and the spectacular match between Arsenal (1933) and Liverpool (1991). Will this one go to extra-time ?
Arsenal (1933) v Liverpool (1991)
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