1985 FA Cup final

1985 FA Cup Final
Event	1984–85 FA Cup
	After extra time
Date	18 May 1985
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Referee	Peter Willis (County Durham)
Attendance	100,000
	← 1984 1986 →

The 1985 FA Cup final was the 104th final of the FA Cup. It took place on 18 May 1985 at Wembley Stadium, and was contested by Manchester United and holders Everton. 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.

Match

Summary

Everton were playing for the opportunity to win an unprecedented Treble, having won the First Division title by a margin of 13 points with three games to spare and beaten Rapid Wien in the 1985 European Cup Winners' Cup Final in Rotterdam just three days earlier. Meanwhile, Manchester United had finished fourth in the league and reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup. The two sides met three times during the 1984–85 season prior to the FA Cup final; first, a 5–0 Everton win in the league at Goodison Park on 27 October 1984, followed by a 2–1 Everton win in the third round of the League Cup at Old Trafford three days later (Everton were ultimately knocked out of the League Cup by Grimsby Town in the following round). The third meeting, also at Old Trafford, was a 1–1 league draw on 2 March 1985. Eight of United's starting 11 had been members of the cup-winning side from two years earlier, while Arthur Albiston was the only remaining player from the team that won the 1977 FA Cup Final. When United next won the trophy in 1990, Mark Hughes and Bryan Robson were the only players from the 1985 side to feature in the winning team. Everton's last remaining player from this match was Neville Southall, who stayed with them until 1998 and helped them win a league title in 1987 and the FA Cup in 1995, also against United – where he and Welsh compatriot Hughes were the only survivors from the 1985 final. The match was preceded by a minute's silence in memory of those who had died in the Bradford City stadium fire a week earlier. Everton's Peter Reid had the first chance of the game after about 15 minutes; Manchester United goalkeeper Gary Bailey came to meet a long throw-in from Gary Stevens, but his punch was poor and only went as far as Reid on the edge of the penalty area. Reid volleyed the ball goalwards, but it was deflected onto the post by a sliding John Gidman.^[1] With just under 15 minutes left in the second half, Kevin Moran of Manchester United became the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup Final, for committing a professional foul on Peter Reid, who was clean through on goal. The match remained goalless after 90 minutes and went to extra time. Five minutes after half-time in extra time, Manchester United's Norman Whiteside scored the winner, curling a low shot around Everton's Pat Van Den Hauwe and past goalkeeper Neville Southall into the bottom corner of the net. Having been sent off, Moran was not allowed to collect his medal with the rest of the Manchester United team as they received the trophy, although The Football Association later voted to allow him to receive one while the team was on holiday in Trinidad. Two weeks after the match, rioting by Liverpool fans towards Juventus fans at the 1985 European Cup Final caused the Heysel disaster, in which 39 Juventus fans were unlawfully killed. As a result, UEFA banned all English clubs from competing in European competitions indefinitely, which meant United were unable to compete in the following season's Cup Winners' Cup. Everton were also banned from competing as league winners in the 1985–86 European Cup. The ban stood for five years, with Liverpool receiving a further year's exclusion.

Details

18 May 1985

15:00 BST

Everton	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Manchester United
	Report	Whiteside File:Soccerball shade.svg 110'

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 100,000

Referee: Peter Willis (County Durham)

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Everton

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Manchester United



GK	1	File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Neville Southall
RB	2	File:Flag of England.svg Gary Stevens
LB	3	File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Pat Van Den Hauwe
CB	4	File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Kevin Ratcliffe (c)
CB	5	File:Flag of England.svg Derek Mountfield
CM	6	File:Flag of England.svg Peter Reid
RM	7	File:Flag of England.svg Trevor Steven
CF	8	File:Flag of Scotland.svg Graeme Sharp
CF	9	File:Flag of Scotland.svg Andy Gray
CM	10	File:Flag of England.svg Paul Bracewell
LM	11	File:Flag of Ireland.svg Kevin Sheedy
Substitute:
DF	12	File:Flag of England.svg Alan Harper
Manager:
File:Flag of England.svg Howard Kendall

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GK	1	File:Flag of England.svg Gary Bailey
RB	2	File:Flag of England.svg John Gidman
LB	3	File:Flag of Scotland.svg Arthur Albiston		File:Sub off.svg 91'
CM	4	File:Ulster Banner.svg Norman Whiteside
CB	5	File:Flag of Ireland.svg Paul McGrath
CB	6	File:Flag of Ireland.svg Kevin Moran	File:Red card.svg 78'
CM	7	File:Flag of England.svg Bryan Robson (c)	File:Yellow card.svg
RM	8	File:Flag of Scotland.svg Gordon Strachan
CF	9	File:Flag of Wales (1959–present).svg Mark Hughes
CF	10	File:Flag of Ireland.svg Frank Stapleton
LM	11	File:Flag of Denmark.svg Jesper Olsen
Substitute:
DF	12	File:Flag of England.svg Mike Duxbury		File:Sub on.svg 91'
Manager:
File:Flag of England.svg Ron Atkinson

Match officials

Linesmen:
- Terry Holbrook (Staffordshire)
- D. Keen (Berks & Bucks)
Reserve linesman: J. R. Harris (Suffolk)

Match rules

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

References

↑ Pye, Steven (10 May 2013). "Remembering the 1985 FA Cup final: Manchester United v Everton". That 1980s Sports Blog. Guardian News & Media. Retrieved 9 July 2019.

External links

1985 FA Cup Final at Soccerbase

[pye-1] Pye, Steven (10 May 2013). "Remembering the 1985 FA Cup final: Manchester United v Everton". That 1980s Sports Blog. Guardian News & Media. Retrieved 9 July 2019.

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