This article originally appeared in issue 275 of The Gooner.
If a top flight team has everything their own way, then
it is possible to win the FA Cup in roughly 540 minutes of football. But Arsenal
Football Club have rarely done things the easy way throughout our wonderful
history. The start and end of the 1979 FA Cup triumph is a prime example of
this.
The final has gone down in FA Cup folklore, solely due to
the dramatic five minutes at the end of the match, as Arsenal threatened to
pull defeat from the jaws of a comfortable victory, before somehow getting off
the floor to deliver the delicious knockout blow via Alan Sunderland’s rightfoot.
