BOLTON WANDERERS WIN THE CUP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 26 June 1926, Page 9

BOLTON WANDERERS WIN THE CUP

After one of the best displays seen in flic final for many years. Bolton Wanderer's won the Football Association Cup, heating Manchester City by a. goal t > nothing. Tt was a match notable for excellent football on both sides. Usually the players, owing to the excitement and importance tle down to their normal game, but the Wanderers, in particular. started as though they were engaged in a friendly contest, the result of which did not matter. Experience, of course, was on their side. Of the players who won fch« (up in 1925, when the Wembley Stadium was opened under such sensational circumstances, as many as ten were still in the team, the only new man bej :n<r Grernhalgh. a vonnfe local back, who ! (.-ok the place of Finney. The ManI chestcr Citv side were a little excited 1 -it the beginning, but though for twenlv minutes thev were overplayed, thev contrive' i n keen their opponents at hav, and thev did not surrender the { r<'.q! vvhieii caused their defeat until m I minutes from the end. There is a touch ' of luck about everv win in the final. |Tliio wis bow t'i". Wanderers scored Llie all-important goal.