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Parlour? Villa? Gerrard? Ranking best FA Cup final goals
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Parlour? Villa? Gerrard? Ranking best FA Cup final goals

BBC News · May 15, 2026, 5:12 AM

Key takeaways

  • Sport Senior Journalist Published14 minutes ago There's something magical about those seconds before the FA Cup final kicks off.
  • Everyone has an era in which they can reel off the details of every final - those childhood-turned-teenage years when the kits, colours, goalscorers and captains traipsing Wembley's steep steps are etched in the memory.
  • Don't ask me what happened a couple of years ago... but Paul Rideout in '95?

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Sport Senior Journalist Published14 minutes ago There's something magical about those seconds before the FA Cup final kicks off. Trumpets and tin-foil trophies, players as tense as the travelling fans, gaffers pacing the dugout in full club suits. The anticipation of a new hero emerging.

Everyone has an era in which they can reel off the details of every final - those childhood-turned-teenage years when the kits, colours, goalscorers and captains traipsing Wembley's steep steps are etched in the memory.

Don't ask me what happened a couple of years ago... but Paul Rideout in '95? Eric Cantona against Liverpool? All there in vivid detail.

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