The Magic of the FA Cup!: More Than 150 Years of the World's Greatest Cup Competition

Bob Bond's book takes readers on a nostalgic journey through FA Cup history, featuring match cartoons from Victorian times to the present day. It recalls cup finals, great matches, players, goals, upsets, and infamous moments, and is a thing of the past due to instant TV coverage and endless replaying of incidents.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 01 January 2024
Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd

Bob Bond takes us on a nostalgic journey through FA Cup history, telling the story of football's oldest competition through captivating match cartoons. For a century and a half, the FA Cup's power to excite and fascinate fans the world over has never ceased. Every year, we wait for the balls to fall out of the velvet bag to see where our team will be travelling to, and as always, we'll be hoping and believing that this year will be our year. This book recalls not only the cup finals, but some of the great matches, players, goals, upsets, and infamous moments in FA Cup history. In days gone by, the match cartoon was a regular newspaper feature. But now, with instant TV coverage and endless replaying of incidents, it is a thing of the past. So, take a trip down memory lane with the history of one of the world's greatest football competitions elegantly depicted in illustrated form, from Victorian times to the present day.

Weight: 1254g
Dimension: 219 x 304 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781801506618