Preston and Burnleys FA Cup Clash are reminiscent of a golden age | FA Cup

IF of the FA Cup has a golden age, the 1950s and 1960s can make a considerable claim. A time when the students were able to immerse the classic final of the era in Pathé News Sepia, but reminds that the cities were more of English football. In particular, the cities in Lancashire, on Saturday, called back in Deepdale on Saturday, when Preston and Burnley fought for Cup-Ruhm.

North End and the Clarets may not be the most violent Lancastrian rivalry – Blackpool and Blackburn are their respective pray noires – but it remains hot. The couple only met a 0-0 championship use two weeks ago that boiled up. The matter remains with the football association.

Two members of the start -up football league will repeat themselves. The quarter -finals will remember an era in which both regularly deepen into the competition. The house of a club is a tribute to a in the middle of the 20th century. For the Sir Tom Finney stand in Deepdale Read the Jimmy Mcilroy Stand in Turf Moor.

Preston, who last in 1961 in the top division in 1954 and 1964, and twice two quarter-finalists during this time, while Burnley, the Football League champion reached Semis in 1960, 1961 and lost the 1962 final in 1962. This was a last hurricane of the province of the province of Preston -Preston only became a city in 2002 -when the maximum wages of the soccer players began in 1961 by the mill cities towards Lancashires Metropolitan areas Liverpool and Manchester to Drift.

The post -war period promoted a trend that the chairs of the clubs that were local business people were well done, the city’s Tycoon received another civic status. Burnley’s chairman from 1955 was Bob Lord, notorious as one of the first men from a football session that became a headliner grave. Today’s TV blackout from 3 p.m. Saturday is a permanent heritage of the Lord.

“I want Burnley best,” said the owner of a chain of butcher. “Not second best.”

Lord would achieve his goal, but after the Munich Air Catastrophe of Manchester United 1958 this lacked compassion towards Manchester United. “You just have to fight out of the way,” said Lord after eight players died. “They went into this themselves.” Arthur Hopcraft, emeritus chronicler in this football age, compared Lord to Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Prime Minister, whose “we are buried”, who was published in 1956 to western diplomats, was a lot of the Lord School.

Lord had a medical relationship with Mcilroy, Northern Ireland’s jewel of an interior, the Acme of Harry Potts football, which was inspired by the Hungarians of the 1950s. Jack Hixon, a scout that discovered Alan Shearer, delivered Potts with players, including the captain Jimmy Adamson, later a Clarets manager, and Jimmy Robson, another central defender. John Connell’s mighty external rights reached the goal in this title winner team.

The moment of the age for footballers was that Adamson and McIlroy had dug trenches when the training area of ​​the club was built in 1955. She remembered the treatment of Preston’s chairman Nat Buck from Finney, the greatest English player of the time and maybe at any other age. Finney was only paid £ 14 per week and was offered £ 10,000 in 1952. “If Tha doesn’t play for us, Tho ‘plays for anyone.” As is well known, Finney hired a sanitary business with his brother Joe for a second income.

Finney was loved by Bill Shankly. Liverpools Patriarch never weakened his protégé after her time as a preliminary krahmat. Another teammate, the future manager of Chelsea, Scotland and Manchester United, Tommy buterty, tried to improve the contract negotiations. “I want £ 14 a week like Tom,” he said. The offer was £ 12, £ 10 in summer. But it wasn’t as good as Finney, Buck countered. “The doc” replied: “Yes, but I’m in summer.”

The 1954 final was to be the “Finney final” to follow Blackpool’s “Matthews Final” from 1953, but “The Preston Plumber” could never imitate his English wing partner Stanley to win a large medal. West Brom, who was managed by Vic Buckingham, later an influential figure in Ajax and Barcelona, ​​won 3-2 and beat a team managed by Scot Symon to successfully manage the Rangers. Finney accused: “If they looked at me for help and instructions, they wasted their time … I had a stinker.”

A decade later, Preston returned to Wembley to Wembley, inspired by the gates of Alex Dawson, a former Busby-Babe, the “The Black Prince of Deepdale” with the nickname “The Black Prince of Deepdale” with the left touch of Howard Kendall, 17 years and 345 days, inspired with the left-handed became. Dawson scored with two future winners of the World Cup in Geoff Hurst and Bobby Moore, but after a goal at the last minute of Ronnie Boyce, who died this month, 3-2 with 3-2. “Tantalus itself could have mastered North End,” wrote Eric Todd of the Guardian. Preston had also declined before the promotion. A quarter -finals in 1966 was preceded by Kendall’s move to Everton.

Burnley, which in the Premier League era much more well-known, reached the semi-finals in 1974, which was still the best effort after the final they lost to Tottenham in 1962. Spurs’ goal scorers in a 3-1 win were Jimmy Greaves, Bobby Smith and Danny Blanchflower, idols in the “Glory Game” era of this club. Those who immerse themselves against the strong obsession of modern football with tactics can be surprised to find out that this “The Chessboard Final”, the deliberate approach of Potts and Tottenhams Bill Nicholson and two large teams of time, which are now called fascinating tactical battle. Todd again wrote that the game was “an anti -climate of months of anticipation” and “one of the calmest finals in the memories”.

After McIlroy was allowed to go in 1963 and Connelly sold United the following year, Lord remained in control until three months before his death in December 1981, the club in the third division. There they would find Preston. If the times in these Lancashire clubs were better, they were certainly worse.