The Early Cup Finals

Last updated : 25 May 2009 By @pnemad
Preston North End won our first ever FA Cup final in 1889, part of the epic double season of 1888-89 when we didn''t lose a league game or concede a cup goal all season.  Contemporary reports of that historic win have been few and far between ... until now!

This is your opportunity to own a copy of a rare, almost forgotten 100+ year old collectible booklet covering the teams that won the English FA Cup in its first 30 years, available again after many years.

Excerpt from page 16: "Although there are some who consider that the teams produced subsequently by Sunderland and Aston Villa were equal to the old Preston North End, the balance of opinion seems to favour the Cup-winners of 1889 as the finest team that has yet been seen. Its great success was due to the perfection to which it reduced scientific combined play both in attack and in defence, coupled with the individual excellence of each one of the eleven."

First published in 1902 in the auspicious Strand magazine, The Teams that Won the World''s Greatest Football Competition 1871 - 1901 is a classic reprint of one of the earliest historical reference materials of the early years of the FA Cup and gives Preston historians and supporters the opportunity to own a really important historical account of the world''s greatest football competition. It was the club''s glory years - a time when Preston North End could claim to be the best team in the World.

This classic reprint is available for just £12.47. For further details and to order a copy please visit http://www.cinneide.net/facup