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Sheffield United

(Tunstall)

Sutcliffe, Cook, Milton, Pantling, King, Green, Mercer, Boyle, Johnson, Gillespie, Tunstall

Cardiff City

Farquharson, Nelson, Blair, Wake, Keenor, Hardy, Davies, Gill, Nicholson, Beadles, Evans

Referee: G.N. Watson

Cardiff had won promotion to the First Division shortly after the war, they had only been beaten for the Championship by Huddersfield on goal average in 1924, and now they were playing in their first Final. Their clash with Sheffield United at Wembley in 1925 ‑ a meeting of old masters and new hopefuls ‑ almost amounted to an international match.

Not for the first time in a Wembley Final a mistake cost one team the match. A quarter of an hour before half‑time, Pantling, Sheffield's right half, hit a long, swinging pass out to the left. Tunstall, the new England outside‑left, moved towards the ball as it dropped, trapped it and went on to pick his spot in the Cardiff net. Cardiff right‑half Wake could probably have cut out the pass to Tunstall, but, fatally, he hesitated and Tunstall was through to score.

It was a terrific blow to the Welsh team, and, though Blair, Hardy and Keenor continued to play above themselves, Cardiff were unable to reproduce any of the brilliant football that had recently brought them into the limelight. Sheffield, led by the supreme strategy of Gillespie at inside‑left, deservedly won the Cup for the fourth time in their history. Cardiff's chance was to come two years later.

Semi‑Final

CARDIFF C v Blackburn R 3‑1; SHEFF UTD v Southampton 2‑0

Fourth Round

CARDIFF C v Leicester C 2‑1; Blackburn R v Blackpool 1 ‑Q‑ Southampton v Liverpool 1 ‑0;

SHEFF UTD v WBA 2‑0

Third Round

Notts Co v CARDIFF C 0‑2; Hull C v Leicester C 1‑1, 1‑2; W. Ham v Blackpool 1‑1, 0‑3;

Spurs v Blackburn R 2‑2, 1‑2; Southampton v Bradford C 2‑0; Liverpool v Birmingham 2‑1;

WBA v Aston Villa 1‑1, 2‑1; SHEFF UTD v Everton 1‑0

Second Round

CARDIFF C v Fulharn 1 ‑0; Notts Co v Norwich C 4‑0; Hull C v Crystal Palace 3‑2; Newcastle

Utd v Leicester C 2‑2, 0‑1; Bradford PA v Blackpool 1‑1, 1‑2; Nott'm Forest v W. Ham 0‑2; Spurs v Bolton Wand 1 ‑1, 1 ‑0; Blackburn R v Portsmouth 0‑0, 0‑0, 1 ‑0; Southampton v Brighton & H Alb 1 ‑0; Barnsley v Bradford C 0‑3; Birmingham v Stockport Co 1‑0; Bristol C v Liverpool 0‑1;WBA v PNE 2‑0; Swansea T v Aston Villa 1‑3,‑ Sunderland v Everton 0‑0, 1‑2; SHEFF UTD v Sheff Wed 3‑2

First Round

CARDIFF C v Darlington 0‑0, 0‑0, 2‑0; Swindon T v Fulham 1‑2; Doncaster R v Norwich C 1‑2; Coventry C v Notts Co 0‑2; Hull C v Wolves 1‑1, 1 ‑0; Crystal Palace v South Shields 2‑ 1; Newcastle Utd v Hartlepool Utd 4‑1; Leicester C v Stoke C 3‑0; Blackpool v Barrow 0‑0, 2‑0; Bradford PA v Middlesbro 1 ‑0; Nott'm Forest v Clapton Orient 1 ‑0 W. Ham v Arsenal 0‑0, 2‑2, 1‑0; Spurs v Northampton 3‑0; Bolton Wand v Huddersfield T 3‑0; Accrington S v Portsmouth 2‑5; Blackburn R v Oldham Ath 1 ‑0; Southampton v Exeter C 3‑ 1; Watford v Brighton & H Alb l‑1, 3‑4; Millwall Ath v Barnsley 1‑ 1, 1‑2; Derby Co v Bradford C 0‑1 Birmingham v Chelsea 2‑0; QPR v Stockport Co 1‑3; Bristol R v Bristol C 0‑1 , Liverpool v Leeds Utd 3‑0; WBAv LutonT4‑0; PNE v Man C 4‑1; Swansea T v  Plymouth Arg 3‑0, Aston Villa v Port Vale 7‑2; Everton v Burnley 2‑1; Bury v Sunderland 0‑3; Sheff Wed v Man Utd 2‑0; SHEFF UTD v Corinthians 5‑0