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Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0
FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008

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Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
A snowball fight to start the day!

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
A beer or two in Brixton to get warmed up before heading off to the tube.

Because Wembley is about as attractive as an Ukrainian car parts factory when it comes to good pub destinations, we grabbed a pint in some nondescript sports bar a few stops away and then headed to the stadium.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
The view from Wembley Park tube. As Thin Lizzy sang in Warriors in 1976, "It ain't pretty!".

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
Fans were separated just before the stadium.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
Sheep hat.

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Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
Stadium approach.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
City fans on their way to Wembley!

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
The trademark arch and CCFC Valley flag.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
Corporate sponsors ahoy!

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
Cool dude with daffodils in his hat.

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Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
Inside the stadium. The escalators made it feel like we were going into a shopping mall rather than a footie ground.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
It was impossible to get a beer inside so we retired to our seats.

We couldn't complain about the view though - it was magnificent.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
City fans filling up our half of the ground.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
After an incredibly loud and incredibly annoying 'Wembley Experience TM' theme tune was rammed down our throats for what seemed like an eternity, a load of squaddies marched on the pitch and starting carting around the flags of each team. Err, great.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
And here goes the Cardiff flag.

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Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
The match begins! Barnsley grab most of the early possession.


In the 9th minute, Joe Ledley swivels and strikes a superb volley over the head of Barnsley 'keeper Luke Steele into the net.

1-0 to the Bluebirds. And the crowd goes fucking bananas!

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Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
City fans sing it out loud.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
Blimp in the sky.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
Late afternoon sunshine.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
There was over 82,000 people at Wembley, but there were more than a few empty seats to be spotted - thanks to the Prawn Sandwich brigade who splashed out their lolly to have permanent seats at the stadium.

Presumably, the fixture wasn't prestigious enough for their corporate tastes so they stayed home, depriving a lot of real fans the opportunity to see the game. And that's a disgrace.

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Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
City fans in full voice.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
Wembley looks fantastic and the view is tremendous, but the sheer size of the stadium makes it hard to get a real atmosphere going.

From where we were, we could barely hear Barnsley's chants.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
The last few minutes tick away...

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
YES!!! After a tense four minutes of added time, the final whistle sounded and what had seemed like a reckless, drug-addled wild fantasy a few months ago had become true: Cardiff City were in the FA Cup Final!

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Unfortunately, Cardiff's jubilant singing was immediately drowned out by a thunderous refrain of the dreadful Wembley theme tune.

Perhaps it's designed to stop lairy, overjoyed, boisterous fans singing non-Wembley Experience TM approved songs at the end, but it's a right pain in the arse.

Thankfully, it'll take more than a cod-Brazilian corporate samba jig to stop City fans singing their hearts out, and the stadium resonated to the sound of 33,000 delirious Welshman.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008

The Barnsley fans were out of the stadium pretty sharpish at the end.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
A quick peek of the cattle shed-like bar. It looks pretty efficient, but we waited for ten minutes and gave up before the game - and there was no hope at half time.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
Disappointed Barnsley fan. Bless 'im!

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
There's lovely.

Cardiff City 1 Barnsley 0, FA Cup semi final, Wembley, 6th April 2008
Queuing to get the tube outta Wembley and on to a pub to celebrate City's remarkable day.


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