1959 FA Cup Final

1959 FA Cup Final
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Event	; 1958–59 FA Cup;
Date	; 2 May 1959
Venue	; Wembley Stadium, London;
Referee	; Jack Clough (Bolton)
Attendance	; 100,000
	; ← 1958 ; ; 1960 → ;

The 1959 FA Cup Final was contested by Nottingham Forest and Luton Town at Wembley. Forest won 2–1, with goals from Roy Dwight and Tommy Wilson just four minutes apart. Dave Pacey scored Luton's consolation goal.

The game was notable for an unusually large number of stoppages due to injury, particularly to Nottingham Forest players, which was put down to the lush nature of the Wembley turf. The most notable of these stoppages occurred when goalscorer Roy Dwight was carried off the pitch after breaking his leg in a tackle with Brendan McNally after 33 minutes.

This also proved a turning point in the game as Forest had been the more dominant team to that point, leading by two goals at the time. Luton gradually took control of the match from this point on, scoring midway through the second half.

Forest were reduced to nine fit men with ten minutes remaining when Bill Whare was crippled with cramp, being forced to play wide on the wing where he was little more than a spectator.

The high volume of injuries during the second half led to four minutes of additional time being added on by the referee, during which time Luton twice came close to forcing extra time as Allan Brown headed narrowly wide of goal before Billy Bingham hit the side netting. Given the condition of the Forest team at that time it would have been a remarkable feat for them to have won the game or even forced a replay in extra time had Luton equalised.

At the final whistle the Forest manager Billy Walker entered the field to congratulate his team and was chased by a steward who tried to marshall him back off. The steward mistook Walker to be a pitch invader.

The game was televised live on the BBC Grandstand programme, which introduced score captions into their broadcast for the first time in an FA Cup final. This however caused much annoyance in Nottingham where their team's name was displayed on the screen at regular intervals as Notts Forest. Commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme apologised live on air for the mistake, stating that the caption should read Nott'm Forest.^[1]

During the game the Forest fans were heard to sing the theme tune to the then-popular television programme Robin Hood (the legendary outlaw who was allegedly from Nottingham), this being the first time that popular television culture had made its way into a terrace song during a cup final.

Match details[edit]

2 May 1959
15:00 BST

Nottingham Forest	2–1	Luton Town
Dwight 10' Wilson 14'	Report	Pacey 66'

Wembley, London

Attendance: 100,000

Referee: Jack Clough

Nottingham Forest

Luton Town



	1	Chick Thomson
	2	Bill Whare
	3	Joe McDonald
	4	Jeff Whitefoot
	5	Bobby McKinlay
	6	Jack Burkitt (c)
	7	Roy Dwight
	8	Johnny Quigley
	9	Tommy Wilson
	10	Billy Gray
	11	Stewart Imlach
Manager:
Billy Walker



	1	Ronald Baynham
	2	Brendan McNally
	3	Ken Hawkes
	4	John Groves
	5	Syd Owen (c)
	6	Dave Pacey
	7	Billy Bingham
	8	Allan Brown
	9	Bob Morton
	10	George Cummins
	11	Tony Gregory
Manager:
Syd Owen

References[edit]

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v t e Nottingham Forest F.C. matches
FA Cup Finals	1898 1959 1991
League Cup Finals	1978 1979 1980 1989 1990 1992
FA Charity Shields	1959 1978
European Cup Finals	1979 1980
European Super Cups	1979 1980
Intercontinental Cup	1980
Full Members Cup Finals	1989 1992
Other matches	Nottingham Forest 1–8 Manchester United (1999)

v t e Luton Town F.C. matches
FA Cup Final	1959
League Cup Finals	1988 1989
Football League Trophy Final	2009
Full Members Cup Final	1988
Conference Premier play-off Finals	2011 2012
Other matches	Kenilworth Road riot (1985) Norwich City 0–1 Luton Town (2013)

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