STEVE COYNE looks back at when Blackburn ruled the roost in the FA Cup…

INFORMED observers during Arsenal’s, ultimately unsuccessful, 2016 FA Cup campaign referred to their opportunity to equal the record of Blackburn Rovers, who, 130 years ago on April 10, 1886, won a third consecutive FA Cup when they beat West Brom 2-0 in a final replay at Derby.It was a phenomenal achievement of the day but one that perhaps overlooked the town’s previous winners, just three years earlier, when their neighbours Blackburn Olympic FC defeated the Old Etonians 2-1 after extra-ti...