Manchester City will try to retain the league and FA Cup on Saturday – something 12 sides have previously failed to achieve
aprice was furious. As were Ian Botham and Barry Norman. There was anger, too, from Tamara Beckwith and Darren Day, with Simon Weston perhaps putting it best. “Have they forgotten football is a game for the people?” said a man who sustained severe burns during the Falklands war and was now ready for another battle.
In fairness, United’s decision to opt out of the world’s oldest national cup competition to compete in the newly created Club World Championship in Brazil was surprising to say the least and also meant they would not be able to become the first English side to win the league and FA Cup Double for a second successive season, having done so as part of the 1999 treble.
The next Double winners were the first of the modern era – Bill Nicholson’s Tottenham team of 1960-61, and they got reasonably close to matching that success 12 months later, finishing third in the First Division and retaining the FA Cup with a 3-1 victory over Burnley at Wembley in what became known as The Chessboard Final owing to the cautious nature of the contest.
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