Neil Rayment looks back at that rarest of seasons – one in which Newcastle actually won something
The long-term significance
In the days when FA Cup finals were played at Wembley, Cardiff became the first team to take the Cup out of England when they beat Arsenal 1-0. As well as becoming a question beloved by pub-quiz compilers ever since, the game was also notable for being the first final to be broadcast live on the radio. In order to help listeners get a sense of what was happening, the commentator referred to a grid printed in the Radio Times, which divided the pitch up into eight sections. It has since been claimed that this was the origin of the term “back to square one”, though that phrase doesn’t crop up in surviving radio commentaries from the period.