Wembley

As I walked away from Stamford Bridge this afternoon having watched Chelsea beat Stoke City 2-0, my mind was already racing ahead of me.

Would we get Tottenham in the semi finals or would we have to wait until the final?

I switched on Five Live, made my way home and found out that it would be the latter. A semi final against Martin O’Neill’s talented Aston Villa stands between Chelsea and back to back FA Cup finals.

At the start of 2009 I decided to buy tickets to see U2 at Wembley stadium. My main motivation was not what I thought of their latest album but mainly due to the fact I tried getting tickets to the Vertigo tour in 2005 and failed miserably.

As Guus Hiddink stood clasping the FA Cup on a sweltering May afternoon at Wembley he could reflect on a job very well done. When he took charge of Chelsea in February the club was in danger of going into free fall. But the Dutchman has ended his short tenure at the club in the best possible fashion, winning the club’s fifth FA Cup and their first trophy for two years.

GILLINGHAM are hoping their big day at Wembley tomorrow (Saturday) will mean promotion to the League One championship after facing Shrewsbury Town in the League Two play-off final.