Andy Hunt, Nicky Reid and Kevin Donovan went on to score for West Bromwich Albion to take their team into the second tier of the Football League.

Jim Gannon converted a fifth-minute penalty, only for Dean Glover to level the scores at 1–1 on 24 minutes, with the game ending in a draw.

[9] Port Vale team coach driver David Durber sat on the squad bench for the match as manager John Rudge had run out of his allocated tickets.

[9] West Bromwich Albion were starting to apply pressure early in the second half and Kevin Donovan came close to opening the scoring with a bicycle kick.

[9] Swan fouled Taylor on 60 minutes and his subsequent dismissal proved to be the turning point in the match; it also meant that he became the third Englishman to be sent off at Wembley, after Kevin Keegan and Lee Dixon.

[12] Andy Hunt scored the game's opening goal on 66 minutes, and would make his loan spell from Newcastle United into a permanent transfer for a fee of £100,000 later in the week.

[9] Reid scored his first goal for West Bromwich Albion with an 18-yard (16 m) strike on 82 minutes after being assisted by Donovan, who countered a Port Vale attack by running past the halfway line.

"[9] Speaking in 2018, Bob Taylor described the feeling of "massive relief" and how "the parties ensued afterwards ... my memory's a bit fuzzy, but we stopped off halfway through at some hotel, had a few drinks there, and then carried on back.

[15] Ardiles left West Bromwich Albion to return to manage Tottenham Hotspur in 1993, before heading abroad in 1995; he ended up coaching in places as varied as Croatia, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Argentina.

[16][17] Rudge was controversially sacked in 1999 and decided sixteen years as a manager was enough, instead choosing to become Director of Football at local rivals Stoke City.

[18] Bob Taylor had continued success at West Bromwich Albion before spending 1998 to 2000 with Bolton Wanderers, only to return to The Hawthorns to help the club to reach the Premier League in 2002.

[19] Andy Hunt stayed with West Bromwich Albion until 1998 when he signed for Charlton Athletic, retiring in April 2000 at age 30 due to illness; he later emigrated to Belize.