{"id":2612,"date":"2016-05-02T10:26:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T15:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2016-05-02T10:26:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T15:26:37","slug":"classic-programs-crystal-palace-vs-manchester-united-1990-fa-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/classic-programs-crystal-palace-vs-manchester-united-1990-fa-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Programs: Crystal Palace vs. Manchester United, 1990 FA Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Crystal Palace and Manchester United kick off in the FA Cup Final later this month, it will in fact be a rematch more than a quarter century in the making. The two squads met in the final for the first time at the end of the 1989-90 tournament. It was, in fact, Palace&#8217;s first trip to the final match for the first and &#8212; until this year &#8212; only time. Manchester United, meanwhile, has a much richer FA Cup history, having appeared in the final match an astonishing 18 times. They have claimed 11 cups wins from those trips.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the program cover for the first Palace vs. United FA Cup Final, played May 12, 1990 at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/english-football\/seasons\/1989-90\/05-12_mufc-cpfc.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/english-football\/seasons\/1989-90\/images\/english-football-program_1990-05-12_cpfc-mufc.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal Palace vs. Manchester United (May 12, 1990), FA Cup Final\" width=\"600\" height=\"850\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The First Match<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Because the game ended in a 3-3 draw a replay was needed to decide a champion. That was played five days later at Wembley:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/english-football\/seasons\/1989-90\/05-17_mufc-cpfc.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/english-football\/seasons\/1989-90\/images\/english-football-program_1990-05-17_mufc-cpfc.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal Palace vs. Manchester United (May 17, 1990), FA Cup Final\" width=\"600\" height=\"844\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Replay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The replay was just as closely contested and was won 1-0 by the Red Devils, under legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>To see more FA Cup programs, check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/english-football\/press-room-english-football-index.html\">English football section<\/a> now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of programs from the 1990 FA Cup Final between Crystal Palace and Manchester United at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[286,325,140,326,159,129,327],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic-programs","tag-1990s","tag-crystal-palace","tag-english-football","tag-fa-cup","tag-manchester-united","tag-soccer","tag-wembley-stadium","wpcat-61-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}