An original film with newsreel coverage of the 1944-45 North & South wartime Cup competitions, a can of 400ft. of film with sound, six scenes, i) 1945
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An original film with newsreel coverage of the 1944-45 North & South wartime Cup competitions, a can of 400ft. of film with sound, six scenes, i) 1945 South cup final Millwall v Chelsea, match action, crowd scenes, the only goal, Chelsea collecting and parading round Wembley with the Cup, the commentator says 'at last Chelsea have a cup' or something to that effect; ii) northern townscape, smoking chimneys leading to footage of the North Cup game between Halifax Town and Chesterfield at The Shay; iii) North Cup game Manchester City v Liverpool at an almost flooded Maine Road; iv) North Cup Liverpool v Chesterfield; v) North Cup, Chesterfield v Manchester United at a packed Saltergate including a couple of crowd scenes; & vi) Bolton Wanderers in training for the North Cup Final v Manchester United, news of Nat Lofthouse's injury and eventual recovery, showing him training, with the commentator announcing 'the sun shines again in Bolton' not illustrated