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Post by Kebab Belly Bob on Mar 8, 2022 22:33:02 GMT
Thank you to an amazing group of players, management and back room staff. Thank you to the board, all our volunteers and the brilliant fans who sang their hearts out.
Thank you to my heart for staying the course over 100 odd minutes of high drama.
Sorry to the neighbours who must be wondering who was going ultra sonic all night.
Massive achievement and so so proud to be a Sutton supporter.
KBB
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Post by shaneaib on Mar 8, 2022 22:35:24 GMT
Like something from Roy of the Rovers. Bouzanis saves twice in the shootout and then goes on to score in the shootout. It was that kind of night. The Amber Army that went up must be buzzing, drink it in.
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Post by bailo on Mar 8, 2022 22:36:48 GMT
Praise the Lord for VPNs, would have hated to have missed that. Just so, so pleased for this wonderful club, especially for the fans that travel ever further around the country to give their support. Money-no-object flight booking ahoy! See you at Wembley. And, er, the no less glamorous Walsall  |
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Post by amberchoc on Mar 8, 2022 22:40:54 GMT
That has ended a 41-year wait to get back to Wembley. And also exorcised the ghosts from that painful night 22 years ago at Kingsmeadow.
Fantastic achievement. Well done to the players, management and the fans there. I’m going to have a beer and a pizza!
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Post by pinewalker on Mar 8, 2022 22:42:08 GMT
For those of us watching on Sky Sports who else is annoyed that twice now the presenter has called Sutton United Sheffield United? Easy mistake to make - the colours are so similar?? Or perhaps U's looked a division higher than Wigan? |
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Post by davep on Mar 8, 2022 22:57:37 GMT
When Leicester won the Premier League it was described as the greatest fairy tale in football history - but what our club has achieved in the past two seasons on our budget surpasses Leicester's fantastic achievement. Even if Liverpool were to win the quadruple this season, Matt Gray should still be the manager of the year - I pray he decides to stay with us when the inevitable offers flood in for his services. Man Utd obviously won't try to sign Matt - but if they had any sense they would do. So pleased for Bruce and the soon to be departing Dave Farebrother that they will have their day out at Wembley. I know that Harry's penalty wasn't the best - but I thought that over the 90 minutes he was outstanding.
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Post by toothman on Mar 8, 2022 23:10:30 GMT
I’m presuming that we get another £50 K for winning today? Do we also get some TV appearance money for this and the final? and I think 100K for the eventual winners , but at worse more money for being runners up or is the last money you earn the semi - final winners money?
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Post by davethegrave on Mar 8, 2022 23:12:38 GMT
Brilliant performance by all the players, officials and supporters who performed fantastically. Yes - the supporters were magnificent too. Thanks to everyone.
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Post by Meadow on Mar 8, 2022 23:14:50 GMT
Congratulations. I'd like to think we wore Wigan out on Saturday but I very much doubt it.
Enjoy your day at Wembley.
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Post by sufc1898 on Mar 8, 2022 23:17:49 GMT
Did anyone shed a tear after the final save?? I certainly did. Fantastic achievement
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Post by garethl on Mar 8, 2022 23:19:04 GMT
I’m presuming that we get another £50 K for winning today? Do we also get some TV appearance money for this and the final? and I think 100K for the eventual winners , but at worse more money for being runners up or is the last money you earn the semi - final winners money? Think it’s £50k for winning the semi and being runners up, another £50k on top for winning. Plus tv money and gate receipts etc. |
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Post by silverf0x on Mar 8, 2022 23:52:50 GMT
O'Neill's Irish bar in the High Street are showing the match ON ALL SCREENS! I will be there watching with the aid of a few jars of Guinness! are there many people in watching ? A large number of Sutton support, and good reaction when we scored and at the end of the penalties. Spent the evening with John and Lee Daley, and almost the entire Fear family, male section. |
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Post by paz on Mar 9, 2022 0:04:44 GMT
Great result and a good day out awaits us.
I wonder how well the club will do financially out of getting to the final?
Great team effort. Let's hope this does not distract our league form. Have to use this to boost us and not distract us.
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Post by Andy K on Mar 9, 2022 1:27:48 GMT
sh*t the bed.
Little Sutton just knocked out a full strength Wigan side in their own back yard. That's the same Wigan who won the FA Cup when we missed out on the play offs in our 2nd season back in the conference south.
Now I can finally put to bed those 3 near misses against Wycombe, ks and BW. Our 40+ year Wembley drought is over.
I really hope those who derided this competition back in August either stick to their guns and boycott or be adult enough to change their opinion. Because I expect you don't realise how much this means.
I'll give a small anecdote from tonight (and apologies in advance if this causes embarrassment). A couple of minutes after the penalty save in the mayhem, I turned round to look at the supporters behind me, to take it all in. About 4 rows behind me Gareth Miller was standing there, on his own, in silence. He then took his glasses off and wiped a tear from his face. For me, that summed up the enormity of the result. Gareth, as you all know, is a die hard Sutton fan for more years than probably he'd remember, and the one thing he wanted more than anything was to see little Sutton play at the epicentre of football. The global epicentre. And now thar dream has come true for him, me and all of us. It's so hard to put those emotions into words, but for me, that small moment summed it up better than any verbose prose.
Dreams can come true. And the Sutton dream just rolls on and on.
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Post by Amber Aleman on Mar 9, 2022 7:45:16 GMT
Great achievement by the team, and another page is written in the remarkable recent history of this football club. Giving two lower division clubs the chance to contest a final at Wembley has always been the key attraction of this competition, and Sutton have now earned that reward. Along the way we've knocked out three fellow League Two clubs and beaten three from League One.
Wigan, currently 2nd in League One, started with a completely different XI from the one that began the league match v AFC Wimbledon on Saturday. But that doesn't mean they fielded a second-string side; some of yesterday's starters were either suspended or not fully fit at the weekend. Their equaliser was scored by James McClean, capped 85 times by the Republic of Ireland, and who played 158 games in the Premier League.
This match started slowly. Wigan broke through our back line a handful of times in the opening 25 minutes, but either the opportunity was wasted or one of our defenders got back to extinguish the danger. Then, almost out of the blue, we took the lead. Will Randall's finishing ability has perhaps been under-appreciated by some, but he'd demonstrated it ten days ago with a brace against Scunthorpe, and he did so again in this match. Donovan Wilson, who's not had any joy in front of goal lately, provided the assist from Omar Bugiel's knock-on.
The equaliser came before half-time, and the home side did briefly threaten to impose their higher status. If the second half was all about staying in the contest, Matt's game plan worked a treat. There were no more goals and the match went to penalties.
After Wigan failed with their first spot kick, Harry's second for us was saved. It was then level-pegging into sudden death. Louis John confidently despatched our eighth, then Deano saved from their captain Darikwa and Sutton were Wembley-bound.😃
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