Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/1923 FA Cup Final

1923 FA Cup Final
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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/April 28, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 10:09, 22 April 2013‎ (UTC)



The 1923 FA Cup Final was a football match between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United on 28 April 1923 at the original Wembley Stadium in London. The showpiece match of English football's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (better known as the FA Cup), it was the first football match to be played at Wembley Stadium. The final was preceded by chaotic scenes as vast crowds surged into the stadium, far exceeding its official capacity of approximately 125,000. A crowd estimated at up to 300,000 gained entrance and the terraces overflowed, with the result that spectators found their way into the area around the pitch and even onto the playing area itself. Mounted policemen, including one on a light-coloured horse (pictured) which became the defining image of the day, had to be brought in to clear the crowds from the pitch to allow the match to take place. Although West Ham started strongly, Bolton proved the dominant team for most of the match and won 2–0. The pre-match events prompted discussion in the House of Commons and led to the introduction of a number of safety measures for future finals. The match is often referred to as the "White Horse Final" and is commemorated by the White Horse Bridge at the new Wembley Stadium.

3 points: 90th anniversary; 2+ years as FA. Also, I think it's been a little while since we've had a sports TFA.--Chimino (talk) 20:36, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
 * IMO, File:1923CupFinalaction.jpg is a better pic to use. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 05:57, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Do you know the identities of the players in the pic? If so, we'd have to find a way to work one of them into the lead.--Chimino (talk) 05:07, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I think the "white horse" picture is the more memorable of the two proposed images. Bob talk 12:38, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Of course it is. As the article says, it is what the match is famous for. Johnbod (talk) 14:28, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Is there a better version of a picture of the horse out there? A quick Google image search would suggest so, but I'm not sure of the provenance of some of the images.  BencherliteTalk 21:09, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
 * There's this pic, which appears to be a larger version of the same pic. If you think it would look better in the blurb, we can use it. All the others I've seen are worse in rez than the current picture.--Chimino (talk) 12:28, 15 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Support so long as it has indeed "been a little while since we've had a sports TFA". Johnbod (talk) 14:28, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Liverpool F.C. in European football 12th Feb is the last football article; at the moment, the latest sports TFA scheduled is Thurman Tucker (US baseball, 14th April). I'm fine with the gap as it currently stands - to keep up with the numbers of sports FAs awaiting their TFA date we ought to be running 10 or 11 per quarter, in fact, and we only had 5 in the first quarter of 2013. But what about 11th May, the date of the 2013 final, for extra appropriateness? BencherliteTalk 21:57, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Either date is fine with me.--Chimino (talk) 12:28, 15 April 2013 (UTC)