1991 Football League Cup final

April 2014 August 2020 1991 Football League Cup final 280px 1990–91 Football League Cup ManchesterUnited 0 SheffieldWednesday 1 21 April 1991 Wembley Stadium London Nigel Pearson(Sheffield Wednesday) Ray Lewis (Surrey) 77,612 Cloudy16 °C °F 1990 1992 The 1991 Football League Cup final was a football match played on 21 April 1991 between Manchester United and Sheffield Wednesday. It was the first of two years that the Football League Cup competition in English football was sponsored by Rumbelows.League Cup History http://www.football-league.premiumtv.co.uk/page/CarlingCupDetail/0,,10794~475424,00.html The Football League 30 April 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080424120742/http://www.football-league.premiumtv.co.uk/page/CarlingCupDetail/0%2C%2C10794~475424%2C00.html 24 April 2008 dead Leading up to the final Wednesday beat Chelsea 5-1 in the semi-final, United beating Leeds United 3–1. Despite the previous season's FA Cup winners, Manchester United (led by Ferguson), being favourites to lift the trophy, Second Division side Sheffield Wednesday won the match 1–0, the winning goal scored by John Sheridan, giving the Owls their first League Cup title in a season when they also won promotion back to the top flight on their first attempt after being relegated the season before. The match is regarded as one of the most memorable League Cup finals of all time.http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11689_3316328,00.html Top Ten: League Cup finals Sky Sports 17 March 2008 30 April 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080423085030/http://www.skysports.com/story/0%2C19528%2C11689_3316328%2C00.html 23 April 2008 live XI at 11: The best League Cup finals http://www.setanta.com/en/TV-and-Entertainment/Entertainment/XI-at-11/XI-at-11-The-best-League-Cup-finals/ Setanta Sports 22 February 2008 30 April 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080514074028/http://www.setanta.com/en/TV-and-Entertainment/Entertainment/XI-at-11/XI-at-11-The-best-League-Cup-finals/ 14 May 2008 dead As of 2026, it is the last time a team from outside the top flight won the League Cup or any major English domestic trophy. The trophy was presented to Wednesday skipper Nigel Pearson by Rumbelows employee of the year Tracy Bateman.Tom Adams Ferguson's Black Wednesday http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story/_/id/908820/rewind-to-1991:-ferguson%27s-black-wednesday?cc=5739 https://archive.today/20120715135551/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story/_/id/908820/rewind-to-1991:-ferguson's-black-wednesday?cc=5739 dead 15 July 2012 ESPN Soccernet 21 April 2011 17 January 2012 1991: Sheffield Wednesday 1 Manchester United 0 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/telebest/sport/in-pictures-the-ten-best-league-cup-finals-14700850.html?action=Popup&ino=9 Belfast Telegraph 17 January 2012 Pearson was also named man of the match.http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/AlanHardakerTrophyWinners/0,,10794~1354852,00.html Alan Hardaker Trophy Winners www.football-league.co.uk https://web.archive.org/web/20120421013843/http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/AlanHardakerTrophyWinners/0%2C%2C10794~1354852%2C00.html 21 April 2012 Route to final 1990–91 Football League Cup The Football League Cup is a cup competition open to clubs in The Football League. It is played on a knockout basis with the first, second and semi-final rounds being contested over a two-legged tie, rounds three to five are settled on the day with replays and possibly extra time required to determine the winner. As clubs in the top two divisions of The Football League, both teams entered the competition in the second round. Manchester United Manchester United's second-round tie saw them drawn against Fourth Division Halifax Town; they won the first leg at The Shay 3–1, with goals from Clayton Blackmore, Brian McClair and Neil Webb, before Viv Anderson and Steve Bruce gave them a 2–1 win at Old Trafford and a 5–2 aggregate victory. Anderson, who was by now rarely used in the United first team, went on to be sold to Sheffield Wednesday three months later, his appearance for United in the early stages of the competition making him ineligible for Wednesday's matches and denying him the chance to add to the two League Cup medals he had won with Nottingham Forest and a later medal in the competition won with Arsenal. They were then drawn against rivals and reigning First Division champions Liverpool in the third round, where Mark Hughes and Lee Sharpe joined Bruce on the score sheet in a 3–1 home win. In the fourth round, a 19-year-old Sharpe scored a hat-trick in addition to goals from Blackmore, Hughes and Danny Wallace to give United a 6–2 away win over Arsenal, who would go on to win the First Division title that season, just over a month after the two teams had been involved in a mass brawl during a 1–0 Arsenal win at Old Trafford that saw both teams deducted points. In the fifth round, United were held to a 1–1 draw away to Southampton, Hughes scoring their only goal; Hughes was again the only United player on the score sheet in the replay a week later, scoring a hat-trick in a 3–2 win that put them into the semi-finals. Southampton striker Alan Shearer, who within months was reported to be transfer target for Manchester United, scoring all of Southampton's goals during the two cup clashes with United. Goals from McClair and Sharpe gave United a 2–1 win in the first leg of the semi-final at home to Leeds United, and Sharpe scored again in the second leg – his sixth League Cup goal of the season – as United won 1–0, and 3–1 on aggregate, to put them into their second League Cup final. Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday, whose last major honour had been the FA Cup in 1935, were fresh from relegation to the Second Division when they were drawn against Third Division Brentford in the second round, winning 2–1 in each of the two legs to put them into the third round. There they met fellow Second Division side Swindon Town, who held them to a goalless draw at Hillsborough, before succumbing to a 1–0 defeat at the County Ground in the replay a week later. Wednesday required another replay in the fourth round, after they played out another draw at home to Derby County, but beat them 2–1 at the Baseball Ground two weeks later. The quarter-final saw Wednesday drawn away to Coventry City, where a 1–0 victory for Wednesday ended any hopes that Coventry's new player-manager Terry Butcher might have had of beginning his managerial career with silverware. Their semi-final opponents were Chelsea. The first leg of the semi-final was played at Stamford Bridge, where goals from Peter Shirtliff and David Hirst gave them a 2–0 win, before Nigel Pearson, Danny Wilson and Paul Williams gave them a 3–1 win in the second leg at Hillsborough to put them into the final, 5–1 on aggregate. It was Wednesday's first Wembley cup final in 25 years. Match details 21 April 1991 15:00 Manchester United 0–1 Sheffield Wednesday Sheridan 37 Wembley Stadium, London 77,612 Ray Lewis (Surrey) _manutdh9092 _manutdh9092 _manutdh9092 _manutdh9092 _color_3_stripes_red E20E0E E20E0E E20E0E FFFFFF 000000 Manchester United _white_stripes _3stripesonwhite _white_stripes _whitetop 2B51BE 2B51BE 2B51BE 000000 2B51BE Sheffield Wednesday GK 1 ENG Les SealeyRB 2 IRL Denis IrwinLB 3 WAL Clayton BlackmoreCB 4 ENG Steve BruceRM 5 ENG Neil Webb 55CB 6 ENG Gary PallisterCM 7 ENG Bryan Robson (c)CM 8 ENG Paul InceCF 9 SCO Brian McClairCF 10WAL Mark HughesLM 11ENG Lee SharpeSubstitutes:DF 12NIR Mal DonaghyMF 14ENG Mike Phelan 55Manager:SCO Alex Ferguson300px GK 1 ENG Chris TurnerRB 2 SWE Roland NilssonLB 3 ENG Phil KingCM 4 USA John Harkes 87CB 5 ENG Peter ShirtliffCB 6 ENG Nigel Pearson (c)RM 7 NIR Danny WilsonCM 8 IRL John SheridanCF 9 ENG David HirstCF 10ENG Paul WilliamsLM 11NIR Nigel WorthingtonSubstitutes:FW 12ENG Trevor FrancisDF 14ENG Lawrie Madden 87Manager:ENG Ron Atkinson Man of the Match Nigel Pearson (Sheffield Wednesday)http://www.soccer.mistral.co.uk/books/flctext.htm The Football League Cup Soccer Mistreal 1 February 2012 5 October 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181005085103/http://www.soccer.mistral.co.uk/books/flctext.htm dead Linesmen Mike Bullivant (Cambridgeshire) James Biddle (West Midlands) Reserve official Terry Holbrook (West Midlands) Yorkshire Television controversy The broadcast of this League Cup final caused controversy in Yorkshire, where instead of showing the post-match celebrations (as London Weekend Television did), Yorkshire Television decided to cut the broadcast short to show a programme titled War of the Monster Trucks. People from Sheffield often cite this event as a demonstration of the station's bias towards West Yorkshire, Leeds and above all Leeds United. The incident inspired the name of the Sheffield Wednesday fanzine War of the Monster Trucks.Martin Smith Football Diary: Friendless England https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2003/10/10/sfndia10.xml&sSheet=/sport/2003/10/10/ixfooty.html The Daily Telegraph London 13 October 2003 30 April 2008 July 2021 medicmedic References External links Line-ups https://web.archive.org/web/20071001023353/http://www.soccerbase.com/results3.sd?gameid=260057 1 October 2007 1991 League Cup final 1991 League Cup final 1991 Category:1990–91 in English men's football cups Category:EFL Cup seasons Football League Cup final Football League Cup final