1985 FA Cup Final

1985 FA Cup Final

Everton Manchester United 0 1
Event	1984–85 FA Cup
Date	18 May 1985
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Referee	Peter Willis (County Durham)
Attendance	100,000
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The 1985 FA Cup Final was contested by Manchester United and holders Everton at Wembley Stadium. United won by a single goal, scored in extra time by Norman Whiteside when he curled the ball into the net past the reach of Neville Southall after a run from the right.

Late in the second half, Kevin Moran of Manchester United was sent off for a professional foul on Peter Reid, who was clean through on goal. He became the first player to be dismissed in an FA Cup Final. TV cameras revealed that he had gone for the ball, and not for Peter Reid in the offending tackle. He was later presented with the winner's medal that had at first been withheld. Had Everton won the match they would have completed an unprecedented Treble of League, FA Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup.

All of Manchester United's players (including the substitute who played) had been capped at full international level, making them the first FA Cup winning team to consist entirely of players who had gained full international recognition.

However, United were unable to compete in the following season's Cup Winner's Cup, as all English clubs were subsequently banned from European competitions indefinitely two weeks later as a sequel to the Heysel disaster on 29 May 1985, in which rioting by Liverpool and Juventus fans at the European Cup final resulted in the death of 39 spectators.

Everton had just won the Cup Winners' Cup as well as the league title, and so would have competed in the 1985–86 European Cup had it not been for the ban.

Eight of United's starting 11 players had been members of the cup winning side from two years earlier, while Arthur Albiston was the only remaining player from the FA Cup winning side of 1977 still in the team. However, when United next won the trophy five years later, Mark Hughes and Bryan Robson were the only players from the 1985 side to feature in the winning team. Both had gone by the start of the 1995-96 season.

Everton's last remaining player from the game was Neville Southall, who stayed with them until 1998 and helped them win a league title in 1987 and the FA Cup in 1995.

Everton held the double

Everton claimed the crown to the 1984/85 league championship one week before the FA Cup Final against Manchester United. The fact that Everton were also defending champions of the FA Cup (having won it in 1984 v Watford), it meant that for one week, Everton held the League and FA Cup double, albeit not won the same season.

Match details

18 May 1985 (1985-05-18) 15:00 BST	Everton	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Manchester United	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 100,000 Referee: Peter Willis (County Durham)
		Report	Whiteside  110'

Everton

Manchester United

GK 1 Neville Southall RB 2 Gary Stevens LB 3 Pat Van Den Hauwe CB 4 Kevin Ratcliffe (c) CB 5 Derek Mountfield CM 6 Peter Reid RM 7 Trevor Steven CF 8 Graeme Sharp CF 9 Andy Gray CM 10 Paul Bracewell LM 11 Kevin Sheedy Substitute: DF 12 Alan Harper Manager: Howard Kendall

GK 1 Gary Bailey RB 2 John Gidman LB 3 Arthur Albiston 91' RM 4 Norman Whiteside CB 5 Paul McGrath CB 6 Kevin Moran  78' CM 7 Bryan Robson (c) CM 8 Gordon Strachan CF 9 Mark Hughes CF 10 Frank Stapleton LM 11 Jesper Olsen Substitute: DF 12 Mike Duxbury 91' Manager: Ron Atkinson

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Replay if scores still level. One named substitute. Maximum of one substitution.

External links

• 1985 FA Cup Final at Soccerbase

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