{"id":669751,"date":"2026-05-14T21:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669751\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:23:10","slug":"man-city-u18s-vs-manchester-united-live-blues-crowned-fa-youth-cup-winners-after-late-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669751\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City U18s vs Manchester United LIVE Blues crowned FA Youth Cup winners after late drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">They made everyone wait, but <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/manchester-city-fc\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Manchester City<\/a> got exactly what they wanted from the FA Youth Cup final. Goals from Floyd Samba and Reigan Heskey were enough to secure a 2-1 win that writes the class of 2026 into the City record books as winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">City&#8217;s decision to host this game at the Joie Stadium, with the <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/etihad-stadium\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Etihad Stadium<\/a> unavailable due to construction works, caused untold hysteria about whether the club were devaluing youth football. City&#8217;s <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/manchester-city-fc\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">wish to give their players a more familiar<\/a> &#8211; and, crucially, a friendlier atmosphere than <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/old-trafford\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Old Trafford<\/a> would have offered &#8211; had logic but also deprived both sets of players from playing in front of a bigger audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Read on <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/man-city-gamble-pays-reigan-33949798\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">here &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_GettyImages-2276273542.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They made everyone wait, but Manchester City got exactly what they wanted from the FA Youth Cup final.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,246832,246831,246830,17730,86158,5692,561,82],"class_list":["post-669751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fa-youth-cup","tag-jj-gabriel","tag-manchester-city-eds","tag-manchester-city-fc","tag-manchester-united-academy","tag-manchester-united-fc","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}