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1929 FA Cup final

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1929 FA Cup final
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The 1929 FA Cup final was an association football match between Bolton Wanderers and Portsmouth on 27 April 1929 at Wembley Stadium.

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Bolton won 2–0, with goals by Billy Butler and Harold Blackmore. It marked the 54th final of the Football Association Challenge Cup (FA Cup), the world's oldest football cup competition. It was Portsmouth's first FA Cup final and Bolton's fifth. En route to the final, Bolton defeated Oldham Athletic, Liverpool (after a replay), Leicester City, Blackburn Rovers (after a replay) and Huddersfield Town; Portsmouth beat Charlton Athletic, Bradford City, Chelsea (after a replay), West Ham United and Aston Villa.

The match was played in a front of 92,576 spectators and was refereed by Arnold Josephs. After a goalless first half, two late goals in the second half from Billy Butler and Harold Blackmore secured Bolton the FA Cup. For Bolton this meant that they had won their third FA Cup title.

No live radio commentary of the match was broadcast by the BBC, as permission to do so had been refused by the Football Association.[1] Instead, the organisation sent various reporters to the ground, who each left the match at 15-to-20-minute intervals to go to a nearby house where a broadcasting set-up had been arranged. From there, they transmitted accounts of the game as they had seen it up to the point of their departure.[2]

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Bolton Wanderers

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Attendance: 92,576
Referee: Arnold Josephs (South Shields)
Bolton Wanderers
Portsmouth
GK England Dick Pym
DF England Bob Haworth
DF England Alex Finney
MF England Fred Kean
MF England Jimmy Seddon (c)
MF England Harry Nuttall
FW England Billy Butler
FW Scotland Jim McClelland
FW England Harold Blackmore
FW Scotland George Gibson
FW Scotland Willie Cook
Manager:
England Charles Foweraker
GK Scotland Jock Gilfillan
DF Northern Ireland Alec Mackie
DF England Thomas Bell
MF Scotland Jimmy Nichol
MF Scotland Johnny McIlwaine (c)
MF Scotland David Thackeray
FW England Fred Forward
FW England Jack Smith
FW England Jack Weddle
FW England David Watson
FW Wales Fred Cook
Manager:
England Jack Tinn

Match rules

  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
  • Replay if scores still level.

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