Seeing as i'm "old school" and an old codger even, I would "bloody love it" if

[Paul Vaessen's moment of glory]

we won the FA Cup. I still remember the build up every Saturday and the excitement, although as a kid I never got to see us win it, I went to two semi-finals (three games in all) in 82/83, both against the Mancs and we lost ALL the matches - boof**kinghoo! Last time I attended a Final was the 2005 one v Manure and I was ****faced, screaming my face off, a poor chap with his kid got the most of my powerful rock'n'roll voice in his ear.....the penalties were pure bliss. Alan Sunderland, Alan Alan Sunderland! I really do hope we win this one, would be rather wonderful to see Arsene do a David Pleat stylee merry jig !

[Berni]

[redgunamo]

It's the romance of the thing, you see. You can't beat romance.

[Paul Vaessen's moment of glory]

wise and sexy man wrote that.

[Paul Vaessen's moment of glory]

[Berni]

[Paul Vaessen's moment of glory]

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

makes it so incomparable, even to Anfield 89, was the sickening despair of conceding the equaliser so swiftly replaced with that ex[plosive joy of knowing it was won.

To think we had all been singing "We've won ya bums" at 2-0 up with five minutes to go.

Is it our imagination that the FA Cup was more important than the title or was it just that we weren't contenders?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The title was nothing to do with us in those days; the title was what Liverpool or Forest did. The Cup was where the glamour lay, because we could dare to dream about the cup.

[redgunamo]

not even title-winners get.

For me at least, there's always a sort of "end of term" feeling about Cup Final day, whether we're playing or not.

[Paul Vaessen's moment of glory]

Final, not the title clincher at Ayersome Park two rounds before the end of the season.

[redgunamo]