“Have just found out that Motherwell are the only non-Spanish side to win the Copa del Rey,” tweets Dave Chamberlain. “Are there any other examples of teams winning another country’s cup competition whilst not being a member of their FA?”
Let’s start with a bit of housekeeping: specifically, Motherwell winning the Copa del Rey. It happened in 1927, although there’s an asterisk against the whole thing. No, not that sort of asterisk.
