1958 FA Cup final

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{{Infobox football match

| title = 1958 FA Cup final

| image = Old Wembley Stadium (external view).jpg

| image_size = 200

| event = 1957–58 FA Cup

| team1 = Bolton Wanderers

| team1score = 2

| team2 = Manchester United

| team2score = 0

| details =

| date = 3 May 1958

| stadium = Wembley Stadium

| city = London

| referee = Jack Sherlock

| attendance = 99,756

| weather =

| previous = 1957

| next = 1959

}}

The 1958 FA Cup final was contested on 3 May 1958 by Bolton Wanderers and Manchester United at Wembley Stadium, London, in front of a crowd of almost 100,000. The referee was J. Sherlock. Bolton won 2–0, with a double by Nat Lofthouse, who scored the goals in the 3rd and 55th minutes.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/1321966.stm |title=1958 – Man Utd's Brave Dream |access-date=25 August 2007 |date=10 May 2001 |work=FA Cup |publisher=BBC Sport}} United, who had lost the previous final to Aston Villa, had been devastated three months earlier by the Munich air disaster, and fielded only four crash survivors, along with several newcomers. Just two players featured in the United side from the previous year's final; six of them were among the dead (along with two others who had not played), two were injured to such an extent that they never played again, while another had not yet fully recovered from his injuries.

The second Bolton goal was a source of considerable controversy as it resulted from the Manchester United goalkeeper Harry Gregg being bundled over the goal line by Lofthouse. Goalkeepers were, at that time, much less protected from physical contact with opponents. The resulting debate was one of the high-profile incidents that led eventually to the situation that prevails nowadays where no contact with the opposing goalkeeper is permitted.

Not one of Bolton's eleven players in the cup-winning team had cost the club a transfer fee. Five of them were full internationals. Only Nat Lofthouse and Doug Holden remained from the Bolton team that had lost to Blackpool in the Matthews Final five years earlier.{{cite news|title=1953 - The Matthews final|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/fa_cup/1321960.stm|website=news.bbc.co.uk|date=10 May 2001 |access-date=13 June 2014}}

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