Chelsea v Manchester City: FA Cup final – live

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And now for something completely different: an FA Cup final between Chelsea and Manchester City.

These two great clubs have met in a Champions League final, a League Cup final and a classic Full Members Cup final, but never, until today, on the FA Cup’s big day.

It’s a surprising stat given the size of the two clubs and their recent FA Cup record.

Since the turn of the century – what did happen to that https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/28/all-people-could-do-was-hope-the-nerds-would-fix-it-the-global-panic-over-the-millennium-bug-25-years-on">Millennium Bug – Chelsea and City have been involved in 17 of the 26 FA Cup finals.

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