The eyes of all football enthusiasts will be on Wembley Stadium to-day when Preston North End and Huddersfield meet in the final for the Football Association Cup. Although in popularity it would be better if a southern team were playing a northern team in order to broaden the interest in the match, the meeting of these two northern rivals from Yorkshire and Lancashire should prove to be a battle of the century for both enter the field with great issues at stake. Both have distinguished records in the history of the game. Both have reached the final five times and both have won the cup once. For Preston there is the prospect of winning a double, but Huddersfield swings between two distant poles. The greatest honour in the game is within grasp to-day but the team's League position is so low that there is a possibility of relegation to the Second Division when the season ends next week, which means there will be an additional impetus to remove this stigma by the standard of to-day's play. With these conditions in existence tha match should be chockfull of interest. This morning London will be invaded by thousands of supporters from Yorkshire and Lancashire, with their pennants, emblems and mascots, which give the dignified inhabitants of the metropolis quite a shock and also an entirely incorrect conception of the real habits and manners of their country cousins. But it is all in good fun for there will be more "bobs" wagered in Preston and Huddersfield "pubs" than there are pieces of gold paving the streets of London.
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