This thread makes for some great reading, brilliant win

One of my favourite games was the 5th round (or quarter final?) replay at home to Arsenal in 2007. We drew 0-0 at the Emirates and were the first away team to keep a clean sheet there. After the game Fabregas refused to shake Hughes' hand instead apparently saying, "you used to play for Barcelona didn't you? Your team didn't play like Barcelona", and then I think it kicked off a bit. Really wanted to beat them after that, I never liked Fabregas. Don't remember much of the game other than Benni's quality strike to win it which is one of my favourite ever goals. Think we also knocked out Everton and City on that run before the Chelsea semi final and that Pedersen header I don't like to think about.

Chimbonda in the Utd 7-1 game was pretty awful but wasn't he just as bad against Villa in the League Cup semi final second leg against Villa? Am I remembering that right?

I know they call it "silly season" but this is next level.

Was competitive and of a decent standard during the 1980s until Rangers spent outwith their means and killed the competition. Modern football has effectively killed off all competition now as Celtic just get far too much money for the other sides to compete. For a nation a 10th of the side of England, it's a tad unfair to compare the two leagues. It is, on the whole, pretty pish don't get me wrong, so but so is the Championship and the bottom half of the Premier League so swings and roundabouts. There's some good players dotted around, same as most leagues, but some pretty awful ones as well.

We haven't beaten them in what, 7 years? I want to play them in both cups every year until we beat them, don't want them coming anywhere near our recent record. Can you imagine how gutted they would be to still lose to us when we are two divisions lower than them? They would know deep down it's because we will always be top dogs.

Get in, what a draw

Two good games today in the cup finals

Luke Varney own goal, what a player. Puts him on minus 1 in his Burton career so far. Can't see that changing much either.

Didn't see this coming

As far as recent Celtic rejects goes, this one takes the biscuit. At best, a marginal improvement on Coyle.

I also did it on a treble that includes Burnley going down so I'm not even going to win anything.

10/3 at the start of the season

And continues to do so. There's been plenty of Chinese transfers that have been better value than the likes of John Stones and Andy Carroll. A lot of countries are resentful of how much Premier Leagues clubs earn just because there's a lot of people in China and Thailand who want to watch Liverpool and Man Utd. I remember French journalists moaning that Payet, one of the best players in the league and playing for a team like Marseille, was moving to a nothing club in West Ham. Same as Ajax and Feyenoord's best players moving to teams like Newcastle.

Of our money