With FA Cup replays abandoned from next season after 150 years, it feels like a good time to look back at some of the classics that we've witnessed.
Replays were removed from semifinal and final matches in the 1999-2000 season, from the quarterfinals in 2016-17 and from the fifth round onward in 2019-20. Now in a further bid to reduce the number of games played in the competition, the FA is removing replays from the first round onward for the 2024-25 season.
It took a replay for Chelsea to win the FA Cup for the first time when they hammered out a tempestuous 2-2 draw with Leeds at Wembley before reconvening at Old Trafford for a replay later in the month. The replayed final was then staged at Wembley just five days later, on a Thursday. The two sides traded blows and found themselves level at 2-2 until the 76th minute, when Spurs hero Ricky Villa received the ball outside the City area, waltzed past four defenders and slid a finish past the goalkeeper to wrap things up in style. Villa's iconic FA Cup-winning goal was later voted Wembley Goal of the Century in 2001.
After the original tie had ended in a fairly ordinary goalless draw, Manchester United and Arsenal came face-to-face at Villa Park in what was the last-ever FA Cup semifinal to go to a replay. David Beckham opened the scoring for United before Dennis Bergkamp levelled things up in the second half. Arsenal then had a goal disallowed, United had a man sent off and Bergkamp failed to score a penalty in the final few minutes to send the game into extra time.
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