Cup Final.

"When Sir Bobby Robson, the guest of honour, entangled his feet in the red carpet, you wanted some of this Cup final to belong to him. You wanted it for the old ailing football man as much as the managers, the players and the fans of Portsmouth and Cardiff, who came out of the past like sentinels of the warmest of the games history. This was certainly a final that lived more engagingly than last years collision of power and wealth between Chelsea and Man Utd. It was stripped of the worst cynicism and caution of modern football almost from the first whistle, and much of the credit had to go to beaten long shots Cardiff. On saturday the clock rolled back and football went back to its roots." James Lawton.