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FA Cup final bonanza

We preview the Men's and Women's FA Cup final taking place at Wembley this weekend

We preview the Men's and Women's FA Cup final taking place at Wembley this weekend.

We'll speak to the 麻豆官网首页入口's Ian Dennis, get the full match day experience on board the Liverpool supporters coach and revisit some of the classic FA Cup team songs.

Then on Sunday it's the women's final. The competition has come a long way in a relatively short period of time. This is only the seventh year in its more than 50 year history the game has been played at Wembley. The progress of the women's game is in no small part down to women like Patricia Gregory, founder of the Women's FA and Lorraine Hoey captain of the Fulham's 1985 cup winners. We bring them together for their thoughts.

After Covid caused its postponement, the biggest sporting event for the deaf community, the Deaflympics, have been taking place in Brazil this week. Deaf sport isn't part of the Paralympic Games and as such hasn't seen the same kind of growth in interest, publicity and funding for its athletes, many of whom are struggling with the financial burden. We speak to British swimmer Nathan Young and CEO of the Organising Committee Richard Ewald.

The classically French sport of P茅tanque is hosting its world championship, we drop into see what all the fuss is about!

Image: Juergen Klopp, manager of Liverpool (L) and Thomas Tuchel, manager of Chelsea. Chelsea and Liverpool meet in the Men鈥檚 FA Cup Final on Saturday at Wembley CREDIT: LEFT IMAGE (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images) CENTER IMAGE (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images) RIGHT IMAGE (Photo by Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)

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Sat 14 May 2022 09:06GMT

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