(14th May 1966) FA Cup Final - Everton v Sheffield Wednesday

14th May 1966: With the World Cup weeks away, the Wembley FA Cup Final was still England’s showpiece game and, as anyone who downloaded the Semi Finals will know, the media fancied the glamour tie between Manchester United and Chelsea rather than two mid-table sides Everton and Sheffield Wednesday. In 1966, however there was an elephant in the room, and the last thing the FA wanted brought back in the spotlight was three players who will not feature today - Wednesday’s Peter Swan and David ’Bronco’ Layne and their former team mate, laterly of Everton Tony Kay who had been imprisoned and banned for life for their part in a match fixing scam in 1963. With Kay and Swan expected to be in Alf Ramsey’s World Cup squad the FA had recently rejected a petition for their reinstatement. A powerful lobby of managers and politicians wanted their bans lifted, feeling they had been punished twice for the same crime, instead to avoid controversy the BBC were forbidden from mentioning their names. Instead