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Links with the Past: Norman Plummer’s Gold FA Cup Final Medal

Club Historian John Hutchinson delves into Leicester City's history for his latest Links With The Past article, featuring a gold FA Cup final medal from 1949.

2020-11-13T12:05:00.000Z

by John Hutchinson

Published

13 Nov, 2020

Links with the Past: Norman Plummer’s Gold FA Cup Final Medal

Club Historian John Hutchinson delves into Leicester City's history for his latest Links With The Past article, featuring a gold FA Cup final medal from 1949.

John Hutchinson

2020-11-13T12:05:00.000Z

Links with the Past: Norman Plummer’s Gold FA Cup Final Medal

Club Historian John Hutchinson delves into Leicester City's history for his latest Links With The Past article, featuring a gold FA Cup final medal from 1949.

John Hutchinson

2020-11-13T12:05:00.000Z

Links with the Past: Norman Plummer’s Gold FA Cup Final Medal

Club Historian John Hutchinson delves into Leicester City's history for his latest Links With The Past article, featuring a gold FA Cup final medal from 1949.

John Hutchinson

2020-11-13T12:05:00.000Z

Links with the Past: Norman Plummer’s Gold FA Cup Final Medal

Club Historian John Hutchinson delves into Leicester City's history for his latest Links With The Past article, featuring a gold FA Cup final medal from 1949.

John Hutchinson

2020-11-13T12:05:00.000Z

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

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

Leicester were struggling in Division Two but against all the odds reached the FA Cup final against Wolverhampton Wanderers, having defeated league champions Portsmouth in the semi-final at Highbury, with Don Revie scoring twice for the winning side.

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

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

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