How to play the FA Cup finals timeline game

FA Cup finals make up this deck, each shown as the winner over the beaten side, with a note about the goal, the scorer or the story underneath. You're ordering the finals by the year they were played. You begin with one final on the timeline and its year visible. For every new card, choose the gap where it belongs. Choose well and the year appears; get it wrong and the final still moves to its real place, costing one of three lives.

Giant-killings and lower-league shocks sit beside the big clubs' long runs of success. The usual suspects reach the final so often that the club names won't do the work for you. Scorers in the note are your best anchor, along with replays, record-fast goals and derby finals. Clubs that won it several times in a short spell are the easiest to mix up.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Arsenal over Liverpool Charlie George; the Double is sealed
Sunderland over Leeds United Ian Porterfield's second-division shock
Southampton over Manchester United Bobby Stokes' late winner
Arsenal over Manchester United Alan Sunderland's 'Five-Minute Final'
Tottenham Hotspur over Manchester City Ricky Villa's replay solo goal
Liverpool over Everton Ian Rush in the Merseyside final
Coventry City over Tottenham Hotspur Keith Houchen's diving header
Manchester United over Crystal Palace Lee Martin's replay winner
Tottenham Hotspur over Nottingham Forest Des Walker own goal; Gascoigne injured
Manchester United over Chelsea Eric Cantona's two penalties
Manchester United over Liverpool Cantona's late volley; the Double
Chelsea over Middlesbrough Roberto Di Matteo's 42-second goal
Manchester United over Newcastle United Sheringham and Scholes; the Treble year
Chelsea over Aston Villa Roberto Di Matteo; last Wembley final
Arsenal over Southampton Robert Pires' winner
Manchester United over Millwall Cristiano Ronaldo opens the scoring
West Ham United over Fulham Alan Taylor scores twice
Chelsea over Manchester United Drogba's extra-time goal; first new Wembley final
Portsmouth over Cardiff City Nwankwo Kanu's winner
Chelsea over Portsmouth Didier Drogba free kick
Manchester City over Stoke City Yaya Toure ends the trophy drought
Wigan Athletic over Manchester City Ben Watson's stoppage-time header
Arsenal over Hull City Aaron Ramsey's extra-time winner
Arsenal over Aston Villa Alexis Sanchez screamer
Manchester City over Watford 6-0 in Pep's first FA Cup
Leicester City over Chelsea Youri Tielemans' long-range winner
Manchester City over Manchester United Ilkay Gundogan's fast opener; Manchester derby
Manchester United over Manchester City Alejandro Garnacho; derby reversed