FA Cup Final 1991
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The FA Cup Final 1991 saw Tottenham Hotspur win the FA Cup for a then record eighth time, by beating Nottingham Forest 2-1 at Wembley in the 110th FA Cup Final.
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[edit] Match Summary
Spurs had teetered on the edge of going out of business during this Cup run and the mercurial Paul Gascoigne's brilliance had inspired Spurs through to the final. Gascoigne was so pumped up for this match that he almost ended his involvement in the first few minutes. In winning the ball out on the right touchline, he followed through with his foot up and caught Garry Parker in the chest. Referee Roger Milford let him off with a lecture, but failed to calm Gascoigne, who scythed down Gary Charles as the Forest defender ran across the face of the Spurs penalty area. He received a yellow card for the tackle and Forest got a free-kick on the edge of the box. Before play resumed, Gascoigne received extensive treatment on his knee before standing up to join the defensive wall. When Nottingham Forest's captain Stuart Pearce took the dead ball kick, his team-mate Glover pulled a Spurs defender off the end of the wall and the ball flew past Erik Thorstvedt to give Forest the lead in the 16th minute.
Gascoigne paid for his rash challenge, which many Forest fans thought deserved a red card, when he had to leave the field on a stretcher shortly after the match restarted, as he could not put any weight on his leg. It was later revealed that he had torn his cruciate ligaments. Nayim came on to replace him.
After 25 minutes Gary Lineker had a goal disallowed for a disputed offside and then five minutes later he was in on Mark Crossley, when the goalkeeper brought him down in the box. Lineker stepped up to take the resulting penalty and placed the ball to the keeper's left, where Crossley dived and kept the ball out. Half-time came and went. After the interval, Paul Allen put Paul Stewart in on the right hand side of the box and he drilled a low shot past Crossley that hit the stanchion and put Tottenham on level terms.
With the game becoming very cagey, the final moved into extra time. Substitute Paul Walsh chipped the keeper, but his shot hit the bar and bounced back only for it to be put behind by Stuart Pearce for a corner. Nayim took it and Stewart met it at the near post to flick it on. As Gary Mabbutt ran in at the far post, he was poised to head the ball home, but Forest defender Des Walker beat him to it and buried the ball past his own keeper to give Tottenham the lead for the first time in the game.
The remainder of extra time failed to produce much of note and Tottenham Hotspur held on to win their eighth FA Cup, at the time a record.
[edit] Match facts
| Tottenham Hotspur White shirts/Blue shorts/Blue socks |
2 — 1 (final score after extra time) |
Nottingham Forest Red shirts/White shorts/Red socks |
| Manager: Terry Venables
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Half-time: Full-time: Competition: Date: Venue: Attendance: Referee: Match rules: |
Manager: Brian Clough
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[edit] Road to Wembley
[edit] Tottenham HotspurHome teams listed first. Round 3: Blackpool 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur Round 4: Tottenham Hotspur 4-2 Oxford United Round 5: Portsmouth 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur Quarter-Final: Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Notts County Semi-Final: Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Arsenal (at Wembley Stadium, London) |
[edit] Nottingham ForestHome teams listed first. Round 3: Crystal Palace 0-0 Nottingham Forest
Round 4: Newcastle United 2-2 Nottingham Forest
Round 5: Southampton 0-1 Nottingham Forest
Quarter-Final: Norwich City 0-1 Nottingham Forest Semi-Final: Nottingham Forest 4-0 West Ham United (at Villa Park, Birmingham) |
[edit] External links
- Match report at fa-cupfinals.co.uk
- Game facts at soccerbase.com
