Bury F.C. F.A. Cup Scrapbook 1900 & 1903: Shakin 'em up for t'Cup

Bury F.C. surprised the football world when the club from the relatively minor Lancashire town not only won promotion to the First League but then went on to establish themselves as equals amongst such larger town and city clubs as the Blackburn Rovers, Everton, Preston North End and Aston Villa. By the turn of the century the club were in their fifth consecutive season among the elite and headed for their first F.A. Cup Final. Not only did they win the trophy at the end of that season, they repeated their triumph again just three years later. At that time they were able to make the proud boast of having won ten out of twelve Cup finals they had contested in their brief history, i.e: English Cup, winners 1900, 1903; Lancashire Senior Cup, Winners 1892, 1899, 1903; and Manchester Cup Winners 1894, 1896, 1897, 1900, 1903 (beaten finalists 1895, 1899). The greatest honours, of course, were those two English F.A. Cup wins, and this is the story of those two successes, as told through the press of the time.

Every match of both campaigns covered, including full period match report and additional commentary by the author.