FA Cup Final programme online

This season's FA Cup final programme will be available in a special online version.

Chelsea and Everton supporters can flick through pictures, statistics and interviews with both managers and key players ahead of the 3pm Saturday kick-off.

The internet edition also has extra features not in the paper programme, including videos of classic FA Cup moments and goals scored by the teams on the road to Wembley.

Football programme collector Robert Stein said the new technology was a good thing.

Mr Stein, 56, from London, has been collecting programmes since attending his first Chelsea match in 1965.

He owns a copy of the programme for the wartime 1915 Chelsea vs Sheffield United FA Cup final, known as the "khaki cup" because most of the spectators were wearing their military uniforms.

This is the most valuable FA Cup programme of all time - only five remaining copies are thought to exist, and one sold for £15,000 at auction in 2001.

Mr Stein said: "Programme collecting is a wonderful way of understanding the history of the game.

"You can't halt the tide of inevitability and online programmes will help promote the hobby of football memorabilia collecting to a worldwide audience."

The digital programme - at www.familyfootball.co.uk - is being made available by energy company E.ON, which is sponsoring the FA Cup.