Who is...
Matthew Eastley?

Matthew Eastley was born in 1966, the greatest year of the 20th century for all fans of English football. His boyhood footballing memories, though, centre around the FA Cup Final and he grew up during the 1970s, a fabulous decade for this world-famous competition. Fascinated with football from an early age he immersed himself in a world of FKS football stickers, Subbuteo, The Big Match and Match of the Day. But everything paled into insignificance when FA Cup Final day came around.

During the 1970s, like millions of other football fanatics, he would rise early and settle in front of the television to watch almost seven hours of FA Cup build up and action. It was always his dream to go to an FA Cup Final. Sadly, this has never happened and does not look likely to. So, by way of some kind of compensation, he set out to trace those fans who were fortunate enough...

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