IT’S THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

WITH fellow Spaniards Pep Guardiola and Javi Gracia in the dugouts today, this is the first FA Cup final between two managers of the same nationality since Harry Redknapp’s Portsmouth

beat Dave Jones’s Cardiff in 2008.

THE only other time a final was contested between two non-British managers of the same nationality was in 2001. Gerard Houllier’s Liverpool beat Arsenal, managed by fellow Frenchman Arsene Wenger, 2-1.