Here we have the venue of the 1925 F.A. Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, but not on a football card, on a wrestling one. Therefore I imagine there are lots of football collectors who will be seeing this card for the first time tonight. It is the only card of the stadium in this set, but there was also a series two of this set, and that also has Wembley Stadium, but from the inside, looking at the arena, which is actually on the pitch, and up into the spectators areas. That is card two, of set two, if you find anyone breaking a set - because most people who buy this set are interested in the wrestlers, and probably regard the Wembley card as not that exciting.
The event that this set commemorates was rather a strange one, because it was held at Wembley stadium, on Saturday the 29th of August, 1992, but it was on Sky pay-per-view television on Monday the 31st of August, presumably to remove anything unwarranted that had occurred. It was the fifth "Summerslam", but the first one to be staged in another country than North America. This was actually not originally the plan, it was set to go to Maryland, in North America, but because wrestling had gained a bit of a following, due to it being screened on Sky TV, it was thought that holding an actual event in England may lead to extra revenue, plus a greater audience for future events.
Returning to football, the first F.A. Cup Final to be held at the stadium was on the 28th of April 1923, and that is mainly remembered for the fact that thousands of fans attended without even having tickets, just on the off chance, and when they could not get in they used the scaffolding and ladders from the building site that would become the Wembley Exhibition to attempt to gain access. The ground held 127,000 fans, but it is estimated, with no way of really knowing, that at least double that number tried to get in, and many of them succeeded.
The second F.A. Cup Final was on the 26th of April 1924, just three days after the British Empire Exhibition had opened. This was a calmer affair and it was rigorously stressed that only fans with tickets would be allowed to enter the stadium. It was also pouring with rain.
The third F.A. Cup Final was ours, on the 25th of April 1925.