{"id":7547,"date":"2012-02-28T17:38:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T17:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=7547"},"modified":"2013-02-26T18:07:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T18:07:57","slug":"cardiff-city-heartbreak-at-the-carling-cup-final-i-get-very-drunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/cardiff-city-heartbreak-at-the-carling-cup-final-i-get-very-drunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff City heartbreak at the Carling Cup final. I get very drunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carling Cup Final 2012, Cardiff City vs Liverpool (2-3 on pens), Wembley, London UK, Sunday Feb 26 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/cardiff-liverpool-carling-cup-2012-22.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, I was back at Wembley for a\u00a0thrilling\u00a0game of football as Championship underdogs Cardiff took on the\u00a0Premiership\u00a0big boys Liverpool. It&#8217;s taken until now for me to recover.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carling Cup Final 2012, Cardiff City vs Liverpool (2-3 on pens), Wembley, London UK, Sunday Feb 26 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/cardiff-liverpool-carling-cup-2012-14.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Much as I love seeing Cardiff City in big games, my dislike of the\u00a0clinical, squeaky clean,\u00a0corporate\u00a0&#8216;Wembley Experience&#8217; remains, and fuck knows what these ridiculous\u00a0Bladerunner-esque floating banners have to do with football.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carling Cup Final 2012, Cardiff City vs Liverpool (2-3 on pens), Wembley, London UK, Sunday Feb 26 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/cardiff-liverpool-carling-cup-2012-13.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"422\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Great pointless balls of fire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carling Cup Final 2012, Cardiff City vs Liverpool (2-3 on pens), Wembley, London UK, Sunday Feb 26 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/cardiff-liverpool-carling-cup-2012-17.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"404\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There seemed to be a lot of respect\u00a0between\u00a0both sets of players and supporters, and it was great to see the universal contempt held for Murdoch and The Sun. In the pic above you can see the\u00a0\u00a0Liverpool banner, &#8221; Expose the lies before\u00a0Thatcher\u00a0dies.&#8221; Nice one.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, the stewards\u00a0quickly gave up trying to make us sit down this time, so we were able to watch the game like a Cup Final is supposed to be seen:<em> standing up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carling Cup Final 2012, Cardiff City vs Liverpool (2-3 on pens), Wembley, London UK, Sunday Feb 26 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/cardiff-liverpool-carling-cup-2012-23.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carling Cup Final 2012, Cardiff City vs Liverpool (2-3 on pens), Wembley, London UK, Sunday Feb 26 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/cardiff-liverpool-carling-cup-2012-24.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cardiff score!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carling Cup Final 2012, Cardiff City vs Liverpool (2-3 on pens), Wembley, London UK, Sunday Feb 26 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/cardiff-liverpool-carling-cup-2012-33.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"379\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Into extra time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carling Cup Final 2012, Cardiff City vs Liverpool (2-3 on pens), Wembley, London UK, Sunday Feb 26 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/cardiff-liverpool-carling-cup-2012-34.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"404\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carling Cup Final 2012, Cardiff City vs Liverpool (2-3 on pens), Wembley, London UK, Sunday Feb 26 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/cardiff-liverpool-carling-cup-2012-36.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>City\u00a0equalise\u00a0with two minutes to go!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carling Cup Final 2012, Cardiff City vs Liverpool (2-3 on pens), Wembley, London UK, Sunday Feb 26 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/cardiff-liverpool-carling-cup-2012-37.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"398\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carling Cup Final 2012, Cardiff City vs Liverpool (2-3 on pens), Wembley, London UK, Sunday Feb 26 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/cardiff-liverpool-carling-cup-2012-39.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Come on City!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carling Cup Final 2012, Cardiff City vs Liverpool (2-3 on pens), Wembley, London UK, Sunday Feb 26 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/cardiff-liverpool-carling-cup-2012-41.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"408\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The dreaded penalty shoot out and, well, you know the rest \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carling Cup Final 2012, Cardiff City vs Liverpool (2-3 on pens), Wembley, London UK, Sunday Feb 26 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/cardiff-liverpool-carling-cup-2012-45.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More photos here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/cardiff-liverpool-carling-cup-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carling Cup final\u00a0Cardiff City vs Liverpool (2-3 on pens)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, I was back at Wembley for a\u00a0thrilling\u00a0game of football as Championship underdogs Cardiff took on the\u00a0Premiership\u00a0big boys Liverpool. 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