What a jolly bunch
April of 1927 was quite a month. It saw the first long distance public television broadcast between Washington, DC AND New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover. Douglas Fairbanks was among the first group of celebrities to leave their footprints in cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Mae West was sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex, while the Federal Industrial Institute for Women, opened in West Virginia, the first women’s federal prison in the United States.
Cosmopolitan bunch form all corners of the British Isles
More important than any of this was the fact that the might English FA Cup was hijacked by a Welsh team. That’s right: Welsh. The 1927 FA Cup Final was won by Cardiff City, who beat Arsenal 1–0. It was also the first ever Cup Final to be broadcast by BBC Radio.
The final is regarded as the time that, ‘the Cup was let out of England.’ 1927 has gone down in history as the first and so far only time the FA Cup has not been won by an English club.
Arsenal were runaway favourites for the tournament, having just been taken over by the famous Herbert Chapman, and were expected to not only keep the cup in England and win by some margin. As it happens they didn’t, mainly thanks to a right cock up. The Cardiff goal remains one of the most famous FA Cup Final goals of all time. The move that led to it started with a throw-in, Cardiff’s Scottish forward Hughie Ferguson receiving the ball and, having little space to run or make a pass, thus instead he attempted a pot-shot at goal. The ball ran low across the ground, although Arsenal goalkeeper Dan Lewis clearly had the shot well covered. However, as he knelt down and attempted to gather the ball, it squirmed out of Lewis’ hands and slipped in between the gap between his left elbow and body. With a couple of Cardiff City forwards looming, Lewis desperately tried to reclaim the ball but merelysucceeded in knocking it into the net with his elbow. Lewis later blamed the error, which Arsene Wenger’s grandad didn’t see, on his jersey, which being brand new, was greasy and made it difficult to grip the ball. Sounds like a load of bollocks if you ask me.
Increasingly middle-aged and increasingly disillusioned by modern football, I want to share with you how good football used to be before it was ruined by money. 
r u a cardiff fan or r u j us taking the piss out of england well im a bluebird fan and i dont fink the like it up em like i have to swallow that shit on the 66 world cup everytime the world cup comes round england this england that,they dont give a fk about the other nations wales,scotland, ireland or northan ireland as long as it stands. sore losers then months on why they lost the meadia hipe that up i went to tha england v wales rugby 2yrs ago at twickers wen we won they wouldnt even shake me and me mates hands and say well done your not english by any chance nice 2 c some1 keep shoving it back 2 em
Good luck to you. I’m no Cardiff fan, I just really dislike Arsenal.
great wen they lose in it, wen u see some1 in ur teams shirt u think now thats a fan why oh why do lower leauge fans have to put up wiv arsenal man u liverpool and chelsea on the tv thank god for the little bit of the facup wen they show lower leauge teams on tha tv especaly mine and anuva fing that pisses me off is wen u c a grown up wiv prem team shirt on at my teams ground dick eds and wen ur out at tha boozer wen they come up to me in an english prem team shirt and say i support cardiff too i wear my team shirt wiv pride cardiff 1st cardiff last 1 team only (other than wales) these people make me sick call them selves cardiff fans i shout “you only watch em on the telly” now ive ad my rant whoevers ur team dont tell me its 1 of the top 4 pls u ave gd season and that enuff from me.