Links With The Past: Plummer’s Gold FA Cup Final Medal

Norman Plummer was Leicester City’s captain in the 1949 FA Cup Final against Wolverhampton Wanderers. He was the first player to lead a Foxes team out at Wembley and the youngest-ever final captain, a record broken by David Nish 20 years later.

2021-05-14T11:36:00.000Z

by John Hutchinson

Published

14 May, 2021

Links With The Past: Plummer’s Gold FA Cup Final Medal

Norman Plummer was Leicester City’s captain in the 1949 FA Cup Final against Wolverhampton Wanderers. He was the first player to lead a Foxes team out at Wembley and the youngest-ever final captain, a record broken by David Nish 20 years later.

John Hutchinson

2021-05-14T11:36:00.000Z

Links With The Past: Plummer’s Gold FA Cup Final Medal

Norman Plummer was Leicester City’s captain in the 1949 FA Cup Final against Wolverhampton Wanderers. He was the first player to lead a Foxes team out at Wembley and the youngest-ever final captain, a record broken by David Nish 20 years later.

John Hutchinson

2021-05-14T11:36:00.000Z

Links With The Past: Plummer’s Gold FA Cup Final Medal

Norman Plummer was Leicester City’s captain in the 1949 FA Cup Final against Wolverhampton Wanderers. He was the first player to lead a Foxes team out at Wembley and the youngest-ever final captain, a record broken by David Nish 20 years later.

John Hutchinson

2021-05-14T11:36:00.000Z

Links With The Past: Plummer’s Gold FA Cup Final Medal

Norman Plummer was Leicester City’s captain in the 1949 FA Cup Final against Wolverhampton Wanderers. He was the first player to lead a Foxes team out at Wembley and the youngest-ever final captain, a record broken by David Nish 20 years later.

John Hutchinson

2021-05-14T11:36:00.000Z

In 2012, Norman’s daughter Sharon and sons Adrian and Nigel kindly loaned to the Club their father’s FA Cup Final runners-up medal from that memorable occasion. A local lad, Norman had been a pupil at Linwood School in Leicester.

He served in the RAF during the war in Canada and Singapore, but he still played 24 games for Leicester in the wartime regional leagues. He became a regular in City’s side in the cup final season, replacing Sep Smith both as centre-half and captain.

Leicester were struggling in the Second Division, but against all the odds, they reached the final against Wolverhampton Wanderers, having defeated league champions Portsmouth in the last-four stage at Highbury, with Don Revie scoring twice for the Foxes.

Leading Leicester out at Wembley, to be presented to Her Majesty The Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, was a great honour. The Wolves side contained England internationals Billy Wright, their captain, and Jimmy Mullen. Both players had starred for City as teenage wartime guest players eight years earlier.

Leicester were beaten in the final 3-1, but Norman’s family told us that he had always been convinced that a City goal, ruled offside in final, should have equalised the score to 2-2.

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