1985 FA Cup Final

1985 FA Cup Final
Event	FA Cup 1984–85
Date	18 May 1985
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Referee	Peter Willis (County Durham)
Attendance	99,445
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The 1985 FA Cup Final was contested by Manchester United and holders Everton at Wembley Stadium. United won by a single goal, scored in extra time by Norman Whiteside.

Late in the second half, Kevin Moran of Manchester United was sent off for a professional foul on Peter Reid who was clean through on goal. He became the first player to receive a red card in an FA Cup Final. Had Everton won the match they would have completed an unprecedented Treble of League, FA Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup.

All of Manchester United's players (including the substitute who played) had been capped at full international level, making them the first FA Cup winning team to consist entirely of players who had gained full international recognition.

However, United were unable to compete in the following season's Cup Winner's Cup, as all English clubs were subsequently banned from European competitions indefinitely two weeks later as a sequel to the Heysel disaster on 29 May 1985, in which rioting by Liverpool and Juventus fans at the European Cup final resulted in the death of 39 spectators.

Everton had just won the Cup Winners' Cup as well as the league title, and so would have competed in the 1985–86 European Cup had it not been for the ban.

Eight of United's starting 11 players had been members of the cup winning side from two years earlier, while Arthur Albiston was the only remaining player from the FA Cup winning side of 1977 still in the team. However, when United next won the trophy five years later, Mark Hughes and Bryan Robson were the only players from the 1985 side to feature in the winning team. Both had gone by 1995.

Everton's last remaining player from the game was Neville Southall, who stayed with them until 1998 and helped them win a league title in 1987 and the FA Cup in 1995.

[edit] Match details

18 May 1985 15:00 BST	Everton	0 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Manchester United	Wembley, London Attendance: 99,445 Referee: Peter Willis (County Durham)
		Report	Whiteside 110'

Everton

Manchester United


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


MANCHESTER UNITED:
GK	1	Gary Bailey
RB	2	John Gidman
LB	3	Arthur Albiston		45+1'
RM	4	Norman Whiteside
CB	5	Paul McGrath
CB	6	Kevin Moran	78'
CM	7	Bryan Robson (c)
CM	8	Gordon Strachan
CF	9	Mark Hughes
CF	10	Frank Stapleton
LM	11	Jesper Olsen
Substitute:
DF	12	Mike Duxbury		45+1'
Manager:
Ron Atkinson