Happy Derby Day

[Legion]

[Whiney MacWhineface]

This was a very strange day for me. Something this important would have the wife trying to pour me into a jelly mould. A rabbit one. But I felt really confident, we would simply ace this from start to finish. We almost did, but even when Derby scored, it was a bit of a meh moment.

Well done Deano, especially for the run that got us there. He is a good man.

[Risso]

Such a brilliant day. Seemed to go in a flash but at the same time that last 10 minutes or whatever it was after Derby scored seemed to last about 12 days. I was sat around the Southampton fans yesterday, and their utter delight took me right back to that day 5 years ago.

[eamonn]

You've become a Saint?!

[Legion]

A gigantic one by the sounds of it.

[SoccerHQ]

Only time I've ever been confident we'd win a game at Wembley in the last 25 years (was too young for Leeds in 1996 to fully understand what was being played for).

We had Derby's number that season and were simply better back to front and proved it on the day.

Derby actually did have some players though, Tomori, Mount and Harry Wilson all started and all proved themselves top level players in the five years since.

Only nervous part of the afternoon was the never ending injury time after Mings got hurt after the goal they scored.

[SoccerHQ]

You've become a Saint?!

Paying Wembley's bills being a club level member I presume.

[Risso]

You've become a Saint?!

Paying Wembley's bills being a club level member I presume.

Invited by a Leeds supporting mate and his family who'd got a box yesterday.

[SoccerHQ]

You've become a Saint?!

Paying Wembley's bills being a club level member I presume.

Invited by a Leeds supporting mate and his family who'd got a box yesterday.

In the Southampton end?!

[Risso]

You've become a Saint?!

Paying Wembley's bills being a club level member I presume.

Invited by a Leeds supporting mate and his family who'd got a box yesterday.

In the Southampton end?!

Yep. It's quite hard to get a box in the 'right' end apparently, as they're all sold to individual members, so you get the choice of what's sold back to Wembley by the box holder. There seemed to be lots of boxes in the 'wrong' end judging by who was left at the end. They were Leeds fans in the boxes either side of us, but then you could see there were Saints fans still enjoying themselves in the completely empty Leeds end after the final whistle.

[dcdavecollett]

In the PO final in 2018, we got in pretty early and, new to the stadium, I found the rake of the seating hard to get used to and didn't feel comfortable until it started filling up.

A year later, I held back from taking my seat until nearer the kick-off, so spent a short while walking the concourse areas just to take up a bit of time. Listening to some of the -loud! -chanting going on, it really struck me how confident a lot of the support were about the outcome. And they were right!

[darren woolley]

One of the best days of my Aston Villa life.

[astonvilla82]

Just watching it on sky TV,I very nervous on the day and spent most of the match on the concourse,bar was open which helped, but watching it now and the atmosphere is unbelievable