Fa Cup Semi-Finals - Newcastle V Wolverhampton Wanderers (1951)

Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, Yorkshire. Start of the FA Cup semi-final football match between Newcastle and Wolverhampton Wanderers. MV. & SV. Ambulance men and police attending to crowd. SCU. Man being attended to by ambulance men. LV. Newcastle, in striped shirts, kick off. Ball out to left wing. SV. Mullen receives ball and runs forward. MV. Mullen working ball forward, beats Cowell, passes inwards to Wright who lobs ball towards goal. Swinbourne nets. Wolves players congratulate until they realise goal has been disallowed. Crowd. SV. Wright working ball forward. Ball dancing about Newcastle goal area until Walker, hanging back to help defence, collects and races up wing. He is robbed by Jimmie Mullen whose pass is cleared up field by Newcastle defender. MV. Jackie Milburn scoring Newcastle’s offside goal. He chases ball, dribbles around goalkeeper and shoots ball into goal. MV. Crowd cheering. Mitchell dribbling past Short, centres, but Shorthouse intercepts and slips pass out to Hancock. Johnny
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