SOCCER CUP FINAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 97, 26 April 1930, Page 9

SOCCER CUP FINAL.

Enormous Crowds Head For \ Wembley Stadium. SEATS ALL SOLD OUT. (Received 12 noon.)' LONDON, April 25. j A big invasion of London has already begun ,hundreds of excursion trains _ar* striving to-night and to-morrow bringing ( spectators for the English Soccer cup final between Huddersfield and Arsenal. Every one of the 92,488 seats at Wembley Stadium were sold long ago, and as many more could have been sold. The King and the Princ of Wales are expected to attend. Thousands of people - aU over the country, who are unable to come to London, will listen-in to the wireless running comment of the year's greatest football event. f ... It will be a clash between teams from the North and the South, which have -> paid great sums in transfers. Huddersfield paid £20,000 for their players. One ? player from the Bolton Wanderers cost Arsenal the record fee of £10,000. »* Huddersfield has twice won the cup, but Arsenal has never before been in '' the final. x The game presents a unique opportunity of comparing the enormous crowds ... with those of the cricket Tests. outlr ; .