Manchester United 1-2 Brighton: FA Cup third round – live
⚽ Updates from the FA Cup tie kicking off at 4.30pm GMT ⚽ Live scores | Sign up for Football Daily here 3 min Moments later, Dalot blooters over the bar from the edge of the area. Cunha wanders infield and curls a marvellous long pass to put Dalot through on goal. He scampers into the area and is denied by the outrushing Steele. Dalot needed to lift it but his first touch was slightly heavy and that allowed Steele to close the gap. Continue reading...
⚽ Updates from the FA Cup tie kicking off at 4.30pm GMT
⚽ Live scores | Sign up for Football Daily here
It is hard for anyone much under 40 to grasp how important the FA Cup final used to be, how simultaneously desirable going to the Wembley showpiece was to an English football fanatic growing up in the 1970s and 80s. One of only two matches you knew would be televised live (along with England v Scotland), it overshadowed league football in a way unthinkable today.
In 1983, aged 15, I travelled to watch the 1983 final at the home of a Manchester United-supporting friend who lived at the far end of the London Underground line that runs through Wembley. Neither my friend Simon nor I settled down to watch United play Brighton with any thought of what might happen next.
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