2371) The FA Cup, United Kingdom (UK): 150th Anniversary Commemoration (1871/72-2021/22): Royal Mail, UK has issued a set of stamps, while Royal Mint, UK has issued a Coin to present this remarkable Combo set of Stamps and Coin: Year of Coin issue: 2022:
About The FA Cup:
The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football.
First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competition in the world. It is organised by and named after The Football Association (The FA).
Since 2015, it has been known as The Emirates FA Cup after its headline sponsor. A concurrent women's tournament is also held, the Women's FA Cup.
The competition is open to any eligible club down to Level 10 of the English football league system – 20 professional clubs in the Premier League (level 1), 72 professional clubs in the English Football League (levels 2 to 4), and several hundred non-League teams in steps 1 to 6 of the National League System (levels 5 to 10).
A record 763 clubs competed in 2011–12. The tournament consists of 12 randomly drawn rounds followed by the semi-finals and the final.
Entrants are not seeded, although a system of byes based on league level ensures higher ranked teams enter in later rounds – the minimum number of games needed to win, depending on which round a team enters the competition, ranges from six to fourteen.
The first six rounds are the Qualifying Competition, from which 32 teams progress to the first round of the Competition Proper, meeting the first of the 48 professional teams from Leagues One and Two.
The last entrants are the Premier League and Championship clubs, into the draw for the Third Round Proper.
In the modern era, only one non-League team has ever reached the quarter-finals, and teams below Level 2 have never reached the final. As a result, significant focus is given to the smaller teams who progress furthest, especially if they achieve an unlikely "giant-killing" victory.
Winners receive the FA Cup trophy, of which there have been two designs and five actual cups; the latest is a 2014 replica of the second design, introduced in 1911.
Winners also qualify for the UEFA Europa League and a place in the upcoming FA Community Shield.
Arsenal are the most successful club with fourteen titles and Arsène Wenger is the most successful manager in the history of the competition, having won seven finals as Arsenal's manager.
Liverpool are the current holders, having beaten Chelsea 6–5 on penalties following a 0–0 draw in the 2022 final.
For 150 years, few other sporting events can have evoked as much joy and heartbreak or as many moments of raw emotion.
It is a competition in which part-timers can play in the finest stadia in the land and the world’s best players run out in grounds holding only a few thousand people.
Just 12 teams took part in the inaugural 1871–72 season, and while they might not have had much else in common with the 729 taking part in 2021–22, they shared the same dream - Glory.
Like the game itself, aspects of the competition have changed over the course of those years.
For example, the Semi-Finals of the Competition, as well as, the Final itself, are now played at Wembley Stadium.
But one thing hasn’t changed: the FA Cup’s capacity to produce the unexpected, somewhere, and almost every year.
From the "Matthews" Final in 1953 – when Blackpool came back from 3–1 down to beat Bolton 4–3, largely thanks to 38-year-old winger Stanley Matthews – to Second Division Sunderland’s defeat of mighty Leeds in 1973 or Keith Houchen’s legendary diving header for Coventry City in the 1987 Final.
Think of the FA Cup and, young or old, you think of names, places, matches, moments.
The FA Cup has always been a unique competition. For many fans it is about memories, about moments on a football pitch they associate with a time in their lives. Memories matter, they give our lives context.
And one thing is for sure: the FA Cup will keep creating memories for generations to come.
Royal Mail, UK has marked the 150th anniversary of the first FA Cup with a new set of special stamps celebrating the heritage and tradition of the oldest and most famous domestic football competition in the world, while the Royal Mint, UK has released a commemorative Coin to celebrate the milestone.
The Coin and Stamp Combo:
The First Day Cover (FDC) bears the six Stamps issued by Royal Mail, UK, cancelled with a Special Cancellation Handstamp/Post Mark bearing an impression of the FA Cup in the centre. The cancellation is of Tallents House dated - "08.03.2022". The old and the new FA Cups are placed on the left and right flanks.
In the centre of the FDC is the 2 Pound Coin issued by the Royal Mint, UK to commemorate the milestone. The Reverse of the Coin bears an image of the FA Cup in the centre. The peripheral inscriptions are - "CELEBRATING 150 YEARS OF THE FA CUP".
This FDC bears the Serial number - 02693.
The serialised First Day Cover (FDC) issued by the Royal Mail, UK shows the FA Cup image in the Centre, which has been replaced by the 2 Pounds Coin in the above Coin & Stamp combo, cancelled with the special Cancellation Handstamp/Post Mark.
The Presentation Pack (PP)
Technical details:
Issue Date: 08.03.2022
Designer: The Chase.
Printer: International Security Printers
Process: Lithography, PVA
Size: 60.00 mm x 30.00 mm
(The above Stamps and Coin Combo is from the collection of my friend Jayant Biswas. Post researched and compiled by Rajeev Prasad)
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