HIGH FIVES FOR ARSENAL AFTER COMEBACK VICTORY
Arsenal 3 (Grant 18, Yankey 74, Spacey 90+2)
Everton 1 (Mason 10)
FA Women’s Premier League Cup final
Prenton Park, Tranmere
28 March 1999
Attendance 3,005
Late goals by Rachel Yankey and Marieanne Spacey gave Arsenal a comeback victory that saw them lift the FA Women’s Premier League Cup for the fifth time in the trophy’s eight-year history.
Premier League champions Everton, close to home at Tranmere Rovers’ Prenton Park, took the lead after just 10 minutes when defender Tina Mason headed home a Karen Burke corner.
The Gunner hit back strongly and equalised eight minutes later, midfielder Ciara Grant latching on to a Clare Wheatley cross to score from close range.
Chances went begging before and after half time as play swung from end to end before striker Spacey went mighty close with a 70th minute free-kick that cannoned off the Everton crossbar.
The stalemate was finally broken with 16 minutes remaining, left winger Yankey breaking through the Toffees defence to guide a 12-yard shot into the net.
Everton pressed for an equaliser in the closing stages, but the game was put beyond them when Spacey neatly chipped in the victory clincher two minutes into added time.
Arsenal: Reed, Pealling, Wheatley, Slee, Harwood, White, Williams (c), Grant, Spacey, Lorton, Yankey.
Substitutes not used: Few, Downham, Conlon, Mapes, Rockall.
Everton: Worrall, Mason, McGuiggan, Gore, Marley (c), Easton, Burke, Hill, McGrady (Kenwright 67), Jones, McDougall (Berties 84).
Substitutes not used: Ryde, Sandys, Jones.
RESULTS
First Round
27/9/1998
Aston Villa 1-5 Tranmere Rovers
Barnet 0-2 Brighton & Hove
Coventry City 0-1 Berkhamsted Town
Everton 0-0 Millwall Lionesses (AET: Everton won 3-0 on penalties)
Huddersfield Town 1-2 Garswood Saints
Langford 2-1 Bradford City
4/10/1998
Leeds United 3-0 Ilkeston Town
Leyton Orient 2-4 Barry Town
Liverpool 5-1 Ipswich Town
Southampton Saints 3-3 Blyth Spartans (AET: Blyth Spartans won 4-3 on penalties)
Three Bridges 0-6 Doncaster Belles
Whitehawk 3-2 Arnold Town
Wimbledon 5-3 Sheffield Wednesday
Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-2 Reading Royals
Arsenal and Croydon received byes
Second Round
25/10/1998
Langford 5-0 Barry Town
Blyth Spartans 2-2 Brighton & Hove (AET: Blyth Spartans won 4-3 on penalties)
1/11/1998
Doncaster Belles 1-1 Croydon (AET: Croydon won 3-1 on penalties)
22/11/1998
Everton 4-0 Wimbledon
Tranmere Rovers 9-1 Berkhamsted Town
Liverpool 3-4 Whitehawk
29/11/1998
Arsenal 9-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Leeds United 2-3 Garswood Saints
Quarter-finals
3/1/1999
Everton 5-0 Blyth Spartans
Whitehawk 2-0 Langford
Tranmere Rovers w/o Garswood Saints
24/1/1999
Arsenal 1-0 Croydon
Semi-finals
24/1/1999
Everton 2-1 Tranmere Rovers
31/1/1999
Whitehawk 1-4 Arsenal
Final
28/3/1999
Arsenal 3-1 Everton
