Football is full of dumbfoundedness.

In other sports or different walks of life you may get away with describing these as 'curiosities', or 'anomalies', but I'm going for the big DF on this one - something that, as much as you might try, you can't quite come to terms with, like Danny Dichio playing for Sampdoria, or Leeds paying £8million for Seth Johnson. It just doesn't compute.

And this thing going on with Cardiff City and FA Cup is pretty similar. They're Welsh, right - but they aren't affiliated by the English FA, but still play in an English Cup competition.

But then they've played in the Welsh Cup before, qualifying for the UEFA Cup in the process, as they would do if they won the FA Cup, as long as they are nominated by the English FA (who won't nominate them), or the Welsh FA (who, you guessed it, won't nominate them either).

And they reckon the NHS is in a friggin mess .. well it's got nothing on this lot.

The biggest dumbfuckery (<< an alternative term on 'dumbfoundness' from Norman times) comes with all of the 'England for the English' brigade getting on their ponies and declaring war over the scourge of the West.

I wonder how many of them hail from the Kidderminster area, and if so, what proportion remember Harriers making it to the Welsh Cup Final in 1986 and 1989?

Indeed, in 1988, they even pulled Hereford United out of the hat in the Third Round draw .. another very Welsh outpost.

I've got a feeling the boyos are here to stay...

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