Powergen Cup Facts

By Cherrybomb
April 4 2003

All the facts ahead of tomorrow's Powergen Cup final at Twickenham. Go to the message board to join in the banter ahead of the showdown. Come on Glaws!!!

Powergen Cup Facts

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• Saturday's clash between Gloucester and Northampton is the 32nd English knockout cup final. Gloucester were the first winners in 1972.
  


• Bath hold the record for most cup final wins, with 10, followed by Leicester (five).
  


• Leicester have lost most finals (five), followed by Wasps (four), Northampton, Harlequins and Bristol (all three).
  


• Bath's 48-6 victory over Gloucester in 1990 is the record winning margin in an English cup final.
  


• Only two previous finals failed to produce a try - Gloucester v Moseley (1982) and Leicester v Sale (1997).
  


• Three players have been sent off in English cup finals - Nigel Horton (Moseley, 1972), Bob Mordell (Rosslyn Park, 1976) and John Gadd (Gloucester, 1990).
  


• Only three cup final-winning captains have been non-English players - New Zealander Mark Weedon (Wasps, 1999), Scotsman Doddie Weir (Newcastle, 2001) and South African Ryan Strudwick (London Irish, 2002).
  


• Three players have captained winning and losing cup final teams - Mike Rafter (Bristol), Peter Winterbottom (Harlequins) and Lawrence Dallaglio (Wasps).
  


• The youngest try-scorer in a final was 20-year-old Barry Evans, for Leicester against Bristol in 1983.
  


• Three previous finals have gone to extra-time - Gloucester v Moseley (1982), Harlequins v Northampton (1991) and Bath v Harlequins (1992).