Cliff Bastin (14 March 1912 – 4 December 1991) was Arsenal's most prolific scorer until Ian Wright in the 1990's. He formed a legendary partnership with Alex James with helped secured five championships during the 1930s. Not long after his professional début for Exeter City, Bastin was signed by the Arsenal manager Herbert Chapman who signed him for £2000. Bastin’s total of 178 goals for the club in 396 games remained an Arsenal record until 1997 and was a remarkable total for a winger. In 1930 he was the youngest player to date to appear in the Cup Final (only Howard Kendall was younger, in 1964), and he supplied the pass for James to score the crucial first goal. When Arsenal won the first division championship for the first time in 1930–31, Bastin scored 28 goals; he scored 33 when they repeated the feat two seasons later. He played 21 twenty-one times for England between 1931 and 1938, and scored the goal which gave them a draw against Italy in Rome in 1933; on this occasion the home crowd chanted ‘Basta Bastin’ (‘enough of Bastin’).  Bastin's form declined in the late 1930s as he suffered increasingly from deafness after a bout of influenza led to an infection of the middle ear in 1936.