 He bounced back in the 1949–50 season as he helped the "Reds" to their very first Wembley cup final on 29 April 1950.Fagan made 42 appearances in that campaign, seven in the FA Cup, scoring 11 goals, four of them in the cup run.Arsenal won the final 2–0 in front of a 100,000 crowd, the second time he had been on the losing side in a cup final.