First a few warm ups that are not in the anniversary files…
Warm up 1: How many times have Arsenal won the FA Cup?
11.
Warm up 2: Who has won the Cup more times than Arsenal?
No one
Warm up 3: Which two teams have been in the most Cup Finals?
Arsenal and Man U. 18 appearances each.
Now the quiz
1. Who, in 1982, became Arsenal’s youngest ever FA Cup player? Much later he fell very much out of favour with some fans.
Luke Freeman, ( on 10 November 2007)
2. In 1993 we were drawn against a non-league team that we had been drawn against 22 years earlier. Each time we went on to win the Cup. What team was that?
Yeovil
3. Arsenal 0 Port Vale 0 would today draw the ire of all the anti-Wengerians who would demand the manager’s removal. Fortunately in 1998 things were different. So what happened?
It ended 0 0 but turned out to be the first FA Cup game of the second double season.
4. On 29 July 2011 BBC Sport described an Arsenal result as one of the biggest cup upsets of all time, (although it has never obtained the historic significance of the defeat to Walsall under Herbert Chapman.) What was the result?
4 January 1992: Wrexham 2 Arsenal 1 FA Cup 3rd round.
5. One season the FA Cup was played on a home/away basis in every round. When? And why? And what happened to Arsenal?
1945/6. Although the war was over there was not enough time to organise a new national league for the season, but the FA Cup was played on a home/away basis. Arsenal were knocked out by West Ham in the 3rd round.
6. These days we get occasional FA Cup games between Arsenal and Tottenham, but it actually took a surprisingly long time before the sides actually met in the FA Cup for the first time. When was the first ever FA Cup match between Arsenal and Tottenham?
8 January 1949: Arsenal 3 Tottenham 0 in FA Cup round 3, 63 years after Arsenal’s formation.
7. The defeat of Arsenal to Walsall in the FA shook the footballing world and is still remembered over 82 years later. But why was that defeat so much more noticeable than any other bit of giant killing?
Herbert Chapman was at his prime. In 1932 Arsenal were both losing finalists and runners’ up in the league and were top of the league at the time of this match.
8. Four managers have won the FA cup five or six times. Two of them have been associated with Arsenal. Can you name any of them, and if so the Arsenal connection in two of the four cases.
Arsene Wenger, Alex Ferguson, George Ramsay, Thomas Mitchell. Mitchell was manager of Woolwich Arsenal for a time, although didn’t win the cup with the club.
9. What, when and against whom was the highest FA Cup crowd for an Arsenal match at Highbury? Lots of bonus points if you can give a credible answer as to why this game got such a large crowd, as apart from “chance” and “it was a nice day” and “there were lots of big crowds in those days,” I really don’t know.
Arsenal 3 Northampton Town 2 (FA Cup) in front of 72,408 – the all time FA Cup record at Highbury. No one seems to know why the crowd was so big.
10. When did Arsenal first win the cup, who was the manager, and who did we play against?
Herbert Chapman, 1930, Huddersfield Town (his old club). He had already won the cup with Huddersfield.
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The answer to No.1 is Stewart Robson, not Luke Freemen.