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===Matthews Final===
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The [[1953 FA Cup final]] between [[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]] and [[Bolton Wanderers F.C.|Bolton Wanderers]] was dubbed the "Matthews final" after Blackpool's winger [[Stanley Matthews]]. At age 38, he was making his third and ultimately his final attempt at winning an FA Cup medal.<ref name="Matthews">{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/654500.stm|work= [[BBC News]]
|title= The Matthews Final |access-date= 20 July 2009 | date=24 February 2000}}</ref> In the previous six years, he failed to earn a winner's medal against [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] in [[1948 FA Cup final|1948]] and [[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]] in [[1951 FA Cup final|1951]].<ref name="Matthews"/> It featured a [[Hat-trick#Association football|hat-trick]] by Blackpool's [[Stan Mortensen]] in his side's 4–3 win, with Matthews almost single-handedly turning the match around for Blackpool, who had trailed 3–1 to [[Bolton Wanderers F.C.|Bolton Wanderers]] before fighting back to win the match. It remained the only hat-trick ever scored in an FA Cup Final at the original Wembley.

The FA Cup final was played there in April or May until 2000 (excluding the 1970 replay when [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] beat [[Leeds United F.C.|Leeds United]] at [[Old Trafford]]). It was also the venue for finals of the [[FA Amateur Cup]], [[EFL Cup|League Cup]] (except for the early years when this was settled on a home and away basis) and in later years the [[Associate Members' Cup]] and the [[English Football League|Football League]] promotion [[English Football League play-offs|play-off finals]] (in the early years of play-offs they were home and away fixtures). The 1988 final of the [[Middlesex Senior Charity Cup|Middlesex Charity Cup]] was also played there.<ref>{{cite news | last =Francis | first =Tony | title =Future returns to the past | work = [[The Daily Telegraph]]| date =22 August 2005 | url =https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2364126/Future-returns-to-the-past.html | access-date = 14 January 2010 }}</ref>