Cardiff connections: No.3
As we build-up to Sunday's Carling Cup final at Wembley we continue our countdown of five great Cardiff connections. Today we focus on a royal visit to L4 back in the roaring 1920s.
The FA Cup semi-final of 1921 was a special Anfield occasion; however, the red of Liverpool Football Club was nowhere to be seen.
Manager David Ashworth, his star strike-force of Dick Forshaw and Harry Chambers and his legendary stopper Elisha Scott didn't go near the Anfield turf on that landmark February afternoon.
The Spion Kop didn't shudder to the noise of 20,000 fanatical Kopites; rather it was packed-full of fans from Cardiff City and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
They were two second division sides who were riding their luck in the country's finest cup competition: Wolves were 15th and Cardiff were third in the league.
It was the fourth FA Cup semi-final to be played at Anfield since the competition's inception. There would only ever be five final-four clashes held there as the last was in 1929.
The 1921 event in Liverpool was a marked occasion because for the first time in FA Cup history, the King and Queen attended an FA Cup semi.
Their presence wasn't scheduled, however, after a trip down the road to much more familiar territory of the Royal box at Aintree for the Grand National, the couple decided on a jaunt across the north of the city to Anfield to watch the day's football.
King George and Queen Mary were introduced to both teams before the start of the second half as they arrived just before the half-time whistle blew.
Wolves went on to continue their giant-killing streak and book themselves a place in the final where they were edged by Peter McWilliam's Tottenham.
And 91 years on it still holds the record as the last time royalty attended an FA Cup tie outside of the final (that's if you exclude King Kenny's presence on the field, in the stands and on the touchline over the last four decades).
Liverpool meanwhile were second placed in the league, seven points behind leaders Burnley and one point ahead of Newcastle. They would finish fourth that season after being knocked out of the FA Cup by Newcastle. The next two seasons, however, they won consecutive league titles.
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