Manchester City and Stoke will fight in the final of the FA Cup this season, gaining the title of world's oldest tournament, to add a medal to their trophy cabinet, a long unfilled.
Here are some notes related to duel the two teams at Wembley Stadium on Saturday (05/14/2011), as summarized by Reuters:
- Appearances City in the final this time in the day exactly 30 years when they lost 2-3 from Tottenham Hotspur in the party re-finals 1981 in the same stadium (Wembley). In the first game the two teams drew 1-1.
- Stoke City's second oldest professional club in England, founded in 1863, only this time through the final round of the world's oldest tournament. They never reached the semifinals in 1899, 1971, and 1972.
- 5-0 victory over Bolton Wanderers in the semi-finals this season is to win with the biggest difference at that level in this competition since Wolverhampton bend Grimsby Town with the same score in 1939.
- Manchester City will melakoni final was his ninth in the FA Cup, after four wins and four defeats.
- Manchester City is one of five teams that have qualified for the FA Cup final and degraded in the same season. They've been there in 1926.
- As many as 84,569 spectators watched the FA Cup fourth round match between Manchester City and Stoke City at Maine Road in 1934. That record's biggest audience outside of London. At that time City won 1-0.
- Both teams have met seven times in the FA Cup, each winning three times and one time series.
- The last meeting of both teams in the FA Cup place last season, when Stoke beat City with a score of 3-1 through extra time at the party's fifth round replay.
- In this season, Stoke City, and only met once, namely in the league, the endless 1-1 at the Britannia Stadium on November 27, 2010. They will duel again in the Premier League three days after berjibaku in the FA Cup final.
- Because the City had confirmed themselves to qualify for the Champions League next season, it was ascertained following the tournament Stoke Europa League next season, and it is for the first time.
- Stoke manager, Tony Pulis, was the first Wales menukangi a team in the FA Cup final as a full manager. Another figure who was Jimmy Murphy, who gush Manchester United in 1958, but he was caretaker manager at the time when Sir Matt Busby after undergoing treatment at the Munich plane crash.
- Architect City Roberto Mancini in the potential to become the third Italian man who once took a team won the FA Cup. The first is Gianluca Villa (Chelsea, 2000), which both Carlo Ancelotti (Chelsea, 2010).
- It has been more than three decades the two teams had never won a trophy. The last time City won was in 1976, in the form of the English League Cup. Stoke longer, ie, 1972, for the same competition.
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