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SAVED
FOR THE NATION :
THE STORY OF THE FA CUP
This popular exhibition, first seen at the National Football Museum in 2006 continues to tour around the country. So far it has visited:
Discovery Museum, Newcastle September - November 2006
Milestones Museum, Basingstoke, June - September 2007
House of Commons, January 2009
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery March - May 2009.
It can currently be seen at Leeds City Museum, from 18 July 2009 - 10 January 2010.
Coming Soon... Saved for the Nation will be visiting Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle from 23 January 2010 - 11 April 2010
Further venues to be announced soon.
Click here to download the exhibition specification.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the world's oldest and most loved Cup competition can be found in this exciting exhibition developed by the National Football Museum.
An amazing collection of rarely seen objects help to tell the story of the Cup and explain why the competition inspires people throughout the world. The exhibition also displays, for the first time in 95 years, the oldest surviving FA Cup trophy used during FA Cup Finals between 1896 and 1910. The trophy was purchased in 2005 by Bimingham City chairman, David Gold, and saved for the nation.
Find out about:
• How and why the FA
Challenge Cup was created in 1872.
• The great FA Cup teams,
players and goals.
• Great upsets and the
most famous underdogs in the competition's history.
The great teams that won the oldest surviving trophy between 1896 and 1910:
• Sheffield Wednesday (twice); Aston Villa (twice); Nottingham Forest; Sheffield United (twice); Bury (twice); Spurs; Manchester City; Everton; Wolves; Manchester United; Newcastle.
See:
• Stunning photographs
and film footage of the greatest ever finals.
• Film footage of the
100 greatest FA Cup goals.
Shirts worn by great players in great finals:
• Alan Clarke, Leeds, 1972
• Jimmy Dugdale, West Brom, 1954
• Jimmy Stewart, Newcastle, 1911
• Sir Stanley Matthews, Blackpool, 1953
Acknowledgements
The exhibition has been
supported by:
