The Emirates FA Cup Final Special, Live from Wembley

B/R Football Ranks

Bleacher Report

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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We went to Wembley for an Emirates FA Cup Final special, in tandem with BBC Sport, to take a look at the impending Final this weekend between Manchester City and Watford. We were joined by two very special guests, impressionist and comedian Al Foran, and Emirates FA Cup Final 2013 hero Ben Watson, who headed the 91st minute winner for Wigan that year in one of the greatest cup upsets of all time. We started by talking through the final in Hot Takes, and which team has exceeded expectations more this season. Al was here to preview the final as treble-chasing manager Pep Guardiola, and then Ben took over to help us rank some of the most epic finals of the last 20 years, as well as talking about what it's like in the changing room as an underdog in a game of this magnitude. Al finished things off with his take on our nonsense rankings - talking us through his favourite three impressions in the world of football.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a very special edition of VR football ranks, live from the home dressing room at the home of football, Wembley Stadium.
0:31.3	This weekend, hundreds of city supporters and Watford well-wishers will wander and weave down Wembley Way,
0:36.9	wanting and wishing
0:37.6	that Supreme stopped their season will see them succeed in the search for soccer's most
0:40.9	storied shield, the timeless iconic F-A-Cup trophy which is set right here next to me today.
0:47.9	My name is Jack Collins and I hope that you will abide with me as we take a stroll down
0:53.1	memory lane and also look forward to the final with some very special guests.
0:57.0	I'm in Sterling Company as ever, with two men well able to foster a discussion from determining who will be able to walk her away with that glorious silver trophy to working out the shades of grey in who's had more success this season.
1:11.7	Firstly, a man who was behind the goal at Kennington Oval
1:14.8	when Wanderers won the first ever FA Cup in 1872
1:18.1	and who, rumour has it,
1:20.3	actually performed the first ever rendition of Abide with me
1:22.8	at a cup final all the way back in 1927.
1:25.7	It's the sovereign of the switch,
1:26.9	the transfer side, an emperor of the exclusive, the transfer titan emperor of the exclusive Dean Jones.
1:30.1	Cheers, mate. Hello.
1:32.0	And this man here refused to sleep last night
1:34.3	as he insisted on ranking all 137 FAA Cup finals instead.
1:38.9	The king of correcting chaos, the oligarch of order.
1:42.3	It's ranked god Sam Tye.
1:43.7	Oh, Jack?
1:46.6	Hello. This special edition of B-R-F football ranks is brought to you by the emirates f a cup and bbc sports you can catch saturday's
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