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1980: The Kids are up for the FA Cup! | Merry-Go-Round | Classic BBC Sport | BBC Archive
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17:11Now PlayingMerry-Go-Round is a schools programme for 7 - 9 year olds.
In this edition, primary school children from Hallfield and Thomas Fairchild Schools in London, and St. Chrysostom's and St. Cuthbert's Schools in Manchester, remember when Arsenal and Manchester United contested the 1979 FA Cup Final at Wembley.
The children turned the occasion into a massive school project, encompasing paintings and models, poems and songs and dramatic reconstructions of key moments from the match. The children talk about their teams, their favourite players and the experience of going to a football match.
If you don't want to know the score, look away now...
Arsenal 3 - 2 Manchester United
Clip taken from Merry-Go-Round, originally broadcast on BBC One, 24 March, 1980.
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