100 years of Wembley Stadium told through 100 matches.\u00c2\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
The 1923 FA Cup final – also known as the White Horse final<\/b> – was the first football match played at the British Empire Exhibition Stadium. Although best remembered for its vast, well-beyond-capacity crowd, which had to be marshalled by a policeman atop a white horse, that afternoon marked the opening chapter of the long and eventful history of the stadium soon to be known simply as Wembley<\/b>.
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Over the 100 years since that overcrowded day, Wembley has established itself as the home of the beautiful game<\/b> and, almost certainly, the world’s most famous football stadium.\u00c2\u00a0It occupies a special place in the hearts of players and punters alike. Watching your team at Wembley is the highlight of a fan’s lifetime of support; playing there the fulfilment of a childhood dream.<\/b><\/p>\n
Its sacred pitch has been the crucible of many classic matches across the decades: World Cups have been won here, as have FA Cups, European Cups, play-off finals and more. And that hallowed turf has also seen greyhounds, stunt motorcycles, American football, plus the feet of 72,000 music fans at Live Aid in 1985.\u00c2\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Nige Tassell chooses 100 matches – from the well known to the esoteric – that have shaped Wembley’s legacy and tells a lively and original alternative history of the past 100 years of football, and of Britain.<\/b>\u00c2\u00a0We hear a ball boy’s perspective on the FA Cup Final when Bert Trautmann<\/b> broke his neck, about the other<\/i> commentator of the 1966 World Cup final<\/b>, and why a cup-winning team of eleven unemployed men\u00c2\u00a0didn’t<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0receive a trophy from a future king.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Field of Dreams <\/i>is\u00c2\u00a0the story of how football found its home.\u00c2\u00a0<\/b>
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