ALL SHOOK UP - Bury FC’s Amazing Cup story

 

ALL SHOOK UP

Bury FC’s Amazing Cup story

FA Cup Winners 1900 & 1903

2025 marks the 125th anniversary of Bury’s first FA Cup success when Southern League side Southampton were beaten 4-0 in the 1900 FA Cup final at The Crystal Palace. Three seasons later, inspired by captain George Ross, who scored the opening goal, there was a record 6-0 defeat of Derby County in the final. Willie Wood and Jack Plant scored on both occasions at the Crystal Palace.

As one of the smallest clubs in the Football League, Bury achieved almost the impossible and in 1900 and 1903 they knocked out the FA Cup holders Sheffield United, Billy Foulke and all, with England international Charlie Sagar scoring a sensational goal at Bramall Lane in 1903 to help force a replay. Three seasons earlier, Bury triumphed 2-0 against the Blades in a replay that very possibly attracted Gigg Lane’s largest ever crowd intent on celebrating the relief of Mafeking in South Africa and roaring on the local side.

It is a story that all Bury fans should be rightly proud of and I am therefore pleased the club is selling my book on the team between 1900 and 1903 and which includes a foreword from ex-Shaker Gordon Taylor, especially as both of us will be speaking to supporters before the final game of the season on 19th April.

The book, published by Empire Publications, is illustrated with contemporary photographs, newspaper cuttings and memorabilia and is a reminder of when the FA Cup was the ultimate prize in football with Bury the undisputed kings of the competition.

The book costs £12.95 and is available on Amazon. Copes can be ordered also direct from myself.






Bury homecoming with the FA Cup in 1903. 





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