On August 18, 1973, Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers faced off at Highbury for a chance of FA Cup glory - sort of.
Four months earlier, the two clubs had lost their respective FA Cup semi-finals, as we were defeated 2-1 by eventual winners Sunderland at Hillsborough, while Wolves were pipped 1-0 by Leeds United at Maine Road. Now, they were gearing up to play one another to decide who would secure third place in the 1972/73 FA Cup competition.
There were plenty of bizarre innovations in 1970s football, which also saw the era of the Watney Cup – a competition between the league’s highest scorers, and between 1970 and 1974, matches were played between the two losing FA Cup semi-finalists for the honour of being officially third or fourth in the world’s oldest knockout competition.